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About Confetti
Confetti is a subjective voting and contest platform deployed across several EVM networks, where anyone can open a contest on a question with no factual answer, such as the best player or the best-dressed participant. Votes are bought with real funds along a price curve that rises over time, so earlier votes cost less; 90% of what voters spend funds the reward pool, which is shared among those who backed the winning side in proportion to vote weight, while creators take 5% of the volume. The curve turns discovery into a paid position, paying more for early conviction and making spam costly.
It sits between prediction markets and creator tipping: it settles community consensus rather than objective events, and vote weight comes directly from payment rather than a governance token or reputation score. Deployments span Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Celo, Linea, Mantle, Near and Zora on shared Governor contracts and a common rewards module, and the platform reports about USD 1.89 million distributed to voters.
In 2022, the project launched as JokeRace, initially for on-chain community voting and hackathons, later evolving into a governance contest platform for various communities.
In 2023, it completed a $3 million funding round with participation from Maven 11 and around 30 angel investors, used to expand multi-chain deployment and product iteration.
In 2025, it introduced voting price curves, allowing early voters to earn higher rewards, shifting the platform from a governance tool to an incentive-driven opinion market.
In 2026, it rebranded to Confetti, officially positioning itself as an "opinion market," launching create-and-earn features, and expanding cross-chain scenarios, becoming infrastructure for community coordination and reputation verification.
In 2026 Confetti shifted fully to subjective opinion markets: users buy votes on entries, songs or takes they believe in, 90 percent of vote spend flows into a rewards pool paid out by final placement and timing, and earlier conviction earns more. Anyone can create a contest in about a minute, and creators earn 5 percent of volume. The platform runs across more than 25 EVM chains.
As of October 2026, Confetti's main account had published over 5,200 posts and built roughly 12,000 followers, while Para's embedded wallet lets newcomers join with an email or social login, with cumulative voter rewards above one million dollars. Polygon, Arbitrum and EigenLayer have used it for hackathons, governance votes and community awards, turning participation into an incentivized game.
Future strategy and roadmap: Confetti will keep lowering the barriers to create and join opinion markets, extending Para embedded wallet from email and social login to more gasless experiences, and stretching cross-chain settlement from the 25-plus EVM chains already covered to more networks. The platform plans to productize its voting, reward-pool and 5% creator-share mechanics so teams like Polygon, Arbitrum and EigenLayer can run governance votes and community picks more easily. The next step is to turn opinion-market pricing and reputation data into coordination primitives reusable by DAOs and brands, not just one-off event tools.
Confetti began as JokeRace, an onchain contest protocol started in 2022 by David Phelps and Siobhán McCaffery. Phelps is co-founder. He studied at Columbia, earned a PhD in English at Yale, worked as an associate editor at the Joseph Campbell Foundation and wrote on technology and culture for Forbes and The Ringer. Between 2020 and 2022 he co-founded the payments app Eco, then served as head of ecosystem at RockawayX.
McCaffery is co-founder and CTO, and built the vote pricing curves, reward distribution and multi-chain settlement behind the product.