Questbook Review
Milestone-based DAO grant programs
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Questbook is a grants-management platform for DAOs and foundations: applications, milestones and payouts run through it, with payouts made on-chain from multisigs. It proposed and operated Arbitrum DAO's Delegated Domain Allocation program, in which elected domain allocators award grants, and from the third season served as the program's platform provider only.
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By Dan Reyes · Updated Sep 22, 2026
Role
Grants administration
Website
questbook.app
Criteria with nothing published
1 of 6
Sources last read
2026-09-22
Scores
Each criterion carries equal weight. The overall score is the average of these 6 scores — (8.0 + 10.0 + 5.0 + 10.0 + 5.0 + 0.0) ÷ 6 = 6.3.
Pros
- Arbitrum results are disclosed season by season, approved and disbursed
- Concrete anti-abuse controls: milestone payouts, a second allocator's approval above $25,000, KYC of every team member and social-account verification
- Payouts are on-chain and the program dashboard is public
Cons
- No conflict-of-interest policy, although a delegate questioned Questbook being paid both to manage the program and to host it
- The only effectiveness review looked at a handful of top grantees, with a thin method
- Its own site publishes no program reports; the evidence lives on the Arbitrum forum
What does Questbook do?
Questbook is a grants-management platform for DAOs and foundations: applications, milestones and payouts run through it, with payouts made on-chain from multisigs. It proposed and operated Arbitrum DAO's Delegated Domain Allocation program, in which elected domain allocators award grants, and from the third season served as the program's platform provider only.
In this ranking it is listed under grants administration.
How Questbook scores, criterion by criterion
Each mark comes from a fixed scale published on our methodology page, and each links to the page it was read from.
| Criterion | Mark | What we found | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Named programs | 8 | Arbitrum Delegated Domain Allocation Season 1 (from 5 October 2023, about six months), Season 2 (2024) and Season 3 (19 March 2025 to March 2026, with Questbook as platform provider only). | forum.arbitrum.foundation, read 2026-09-22 |
| Disclosed volume | 10 | Season 1: $997,793 approved, $852,781 disbursed. Season 2: $2,602,247 approved, $1,356,181 disbursed as of November 2024. Season 3: $3.4 million disbursed as of 22 July 2026. | forum.arbitrum.foundation, read 2026-09-22 |
| Impact report | 5 | Entropy's program report (12 December 2024) gives metrics for the top five grantees nominated by each allocator, but its method is limited to that selection plus public data and outreach. | forum.arbitrum.foundation, read 2026-09-22 |
| Abuse protection | 10 | Payouts are milestone-based from domain multisigs, grants above $25,000 need a second allocator, and after an impersonation case due diligence added social and GitHub verification, KYC for every team member and cross-proposal contributor checks. | forum.arbitrum.foundation, read 2026-09-22 |
| Open data | 5 | A public dashboard lists the Arbitrum programs with proposals and payouts, and payouts are on-chain, but it offers no data export. | arbitrum.questbook.app, read 2026-09-22 |
| Independence | 0 | Not published. The original proposal names a Questbook staff member as program manager but has no conflict-of-interest or recusal policy. | forum.arbitrum.foundation, read 2026-09-22 |
Questbook publishes nothing we could find on independence, so that criterion scores 0. That is a record of what is published, not a finding about what the firm does privately.
Who it suits
DAOs that want to run milestone-based grants through delegated domain allocators, with payouts made on-chain.
Who is behind Questbook?
Questbook names CreatorOS Inc. as the company behind the platform.
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Sources
Scored from published primary sources rather than hands-on use. Every figure above comes from one of the pages below, on the date shown. Manufacturers change prices and specifications without notice — if something here no longer matches the source, tell us and we will correct it.
- 1.Questbook: Named programs, Disclosed volume — checked
- 2.Questbook: Impact report, Abuse protection — checked
- 3.Questbook: Open data — checked
- 4.Questbook: Independence — checked
- 5.Questbook: Company details — checked
Frequently asked questions
What does Questbook do for chains and DAOs?
Questbook is a grants-management platform for DAOs and foundations: applications, milestones and payouts run through it, with payouts made on-chain from multisigs. It proposed and operated Arbitrum DAO's Delegated Domain Allocation program, in which elected domain allocators award grants, and from the third season served as the program's platform provider only.
How is Questbook's score of 6.3 calculated?
It is the plain average of six marks, each from a fixed published scale: named programs 8, disclosed volume 10, impact report 5, abuse protection 10, open data 5, independence 0. (8 + 10 + 5 + 10 + 5 + 0) ÷ 6 = 6.3.
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