The Boardroom

The community decides who launches.

The Boardroom is a crypto pitch-competition platform. Vetted projects submit short pitches and compete head-to-head in a single-elimination bracket (Quarterfinal → Semifinal → Final). The community watches both pitches in a matchup, casts one sealed ballot per wallet per room, and the winner earns a real token launch. Voting is free and equal — no gatekeepers, no leaderboard to game, no ticker to front-run. Separately, wallets can optionally escrow $STONKBROKER behind the project they voted for; it never buys extra votes, but converts into an allocation of the winner's token if it launches, or is fully reclaimable if it doesn't.

Live: the-boardroom-app.vercel.app / clocktfin.xyz

Status

This is a demo/v1 build — the full voting UX, bracket progression (a round closing automatically pairs its winners into the next round, all the way to a champion), Q&A, comments, and an admin console for running the season are real and working. What's still simulated rather than backed by a real chain or backend:

• Voting and wallets run against a mock chain adapter (lib/chain/mockAdapter.ts) — no real contracts or transactions yet. See docs/decisions.md for the target design (voter-pays-gas, an encrypted-commit/reveal ballot scheme) once real integration starts.
• Pitch playback is simulated on a fixed timer rather than real video, though pitch uploads do go through a real Mux pipeline into Admin's Submissions queue when MUX_TOKEN_ID/MUX_TOKEN_SECRET are configured (see .env.local.example).
• Round/result state lives in an in-memory server store (lib/tournament/store.ts) — real and shared across everyone hitting the deployed instance, but resets on server restart. No database yet.

Tech stack

Next.js (App Router) · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS v4 · Zustand (with persist for per-wallet client state) · Vitest + Testing Library

Getting started

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000. Admin console is at /admin (mock operator-wallet gate, no real auth yet).

To enable real video uploads, copy .env.local.example to .env.local and fill in Mux credentials — without them, uploads fall back to the existing mock "queued for review" flow.

Project structure

• lib/mock/ — seed data (projects, rooms, Q&A, comments, results).
• lib/api/ — the swap point between mock and real data; pages import from here, not from lib/mock/ directly, so a real backend can replace the mock layer without touching UI code.
• lib/tournament/ — server-side round-progression state (closing a round, generating the next one, undoing a close).
• lib/chain/ — the mock wallet/voting adapter and its typed interface.
• store/useBoardroomStore.ts — per-wallet client state (watch progress, ballots, comments, points), persisted to localStorage.
• app/admin/ — the operator console (bracket, submissions, Q&A moderation, waitlist).

Testing

npm run lint
npx tsc --noEmit
npx vitest run
npm run build