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title: "Guild.xyz"
url: "https://caper.network/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/membership/guild-xyz"
updated: 2026-08-29
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Guild.xyz

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| **Tool** | [Guild](https://guild.xyz/) (guild.xyz) — token-gated access and community-management platform |
| **Category** | Access control / authorization layer — decides who may enter a gated space and what role they hold |
| **Core primitives** | **Requirements** → **Roles** → **Rewards** |
| **Gates** | Discord, Telegram, GitHub, Google Workspace, gated forms — 100+ integrations across 20+ chains |
| **Requirement types** | On-chain (token/NFT/POAP holdings, transactions, contract interaction), social proof, allowlists, other-guild activity, time-based |
| **Sybil resistance** | Native wallet-activity checks + [Human Passport](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/membership/human-passport) (formerly Gitcoin Passport) Unique Humanity Score |
| **Origin** | Built by the [Agora Space](https://agora.space/) team (formerly ZGEN, founded 2020, Szeged, Hungary) |
| **Pricing** | Freemium — free to start, paid tiers for scale |
| **Related** | [Friends With Benefits](/wiki/daos/social/friends-with-benefits) · [Sybil resistance](/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/membership/sybil-resistance-in-daos) · [DAO tooling stack](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/dao-tooling-overview) |

**Guild** ([guild.xyz](https://guild.xyz/)) is the authorization layer for token-gated communities: it decides _who may enter a space and what role they hold there_, based on what a wallet holds or has done on-chain. Where a governance contract like [OpenZeppelin Governor](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/voting/openzeppelin-governor) answers "whose vote counts," Guild answers the prior question — "who gets into the room at all." It is the plumbing behind most of the token-gated Discords, Telegram groups, and members-only spaces in Web3, including social DAOs such as [Friends With Benefits](/wiki/daos/social/friends-with-benefits). It is often paired with [Collab.Land](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/membership/collab-land), the chat-native gating bot most communities run at the Discord/Telegram door.

## Requirements, Roles, and Rewards

Guild organises a community around three building blocks, documented in its [How Guild works](https://docs.guild.xyz/guild/how-guild-works) guide. **Requirements** are the conditions a person must meet: on-chain activity (own a `$TOKEN` or NFT, hold a [POAP](https://help.guild.xyz/en/articles/8123193-gitcoin-passport-as-guild-requirement), make N transactions, interact with a given contract), social proof (follow an X account, hold an existing Discord role, verify an email), other-guild activity (a points threshold or another guild's role), or time-based conditions (had a role before a date, transacted in the last seven days). Requirements span 20+ blockchains and 30+ apps, and a _"should not satisfy"_ rule can [exclude](https://help.guild.xyz/en/articles/6934741-wallets-social-accounts) wallets rather than admit them.

**Roles** bundle a set of requirements together with what meeting them grants; a single guild can layer many roles for tiered access. **Rewards** are what a satisfied role unlocks — the platform automatically grants Discord server roles, Telegram access, GitHub repository permissions, Google Workspace file sharing, POAPs, and token rewards, per the [rewards](https://docs.guild.xyz/guild/how-to-setup-rewards) documentation. Access is re-evaluated against live wallet state, so a role is revoked automatically when its holder no longer meets the requirement.

## What it gates, and where

Guild's value is that it turns an on-chain fact into an off-chain permission without any custom code. A community defines "hold 1 of this NFT" once, and Guild keeps a Discord role, a Telegram invite, and a private GitHub repo in sync with that condition across every member. Guild's homepage, read 24 August 2026, advertises 100+ integrations and a platform “automated and engineered to scale from 100 to 1 million members”; the two member counts it puts a name to are Newton, grown “from zero to over 483,000 members on Guild,” and Ink at 160,000 ([guild.xyz](https://guild.xyz/)). Those are self-reported and carry no date at source; the same headline and the same two case studies appear in the [1 January 2026 capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20260101200250/https://guild.xyz/), so the figures have stood unchanged for at least eight months. Because the gate is a requirement check rather than a smart-contract lock, the same guild can mix on-chain holdings with off-chain proofs — a token _and_ an X follow _and_ an allowlist entry — which is why it became the default access layer for [social DAOs](/wiki/daos/social/friends-with-benefits) and creator communities that gate a human space rather than a treasury.

## Sybil resistance and proof-of-personhood

A token gate has an obvious weakness: one person with enough capital can meet a holdings requirement from many wallets, or borrow tokens just long enough to pass the check. Guild addresses this at the access layer with native wallet-activity requirements and, since a 2023 partnership, an integration with [Human Passport](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/membership/human-passport) (then Gitcoin Passport — [partnership announcement](https://guild.xyz/humanpassport)) — a guild can require a minimum _Unique Humanity Score_ so that roles are gated on a proof-of-personhood signal rather than on holdings alone. This makes Guild one of the practical building blocks discussed on [sybil resistance in DAOs](/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/membership/sybil-resistance-in-daos): it can filter who gets a voice in a forum or an allowlist, even though it does not itself weight anyone's on-chain vote.

## Origin and adoption

Guild is built by the [Agora Space](https://agora.space/) team — formerly ZGEN, founded in 2020 and based in Szeged, Hungary — positioning itself early as "the authorization layer for Web3." The project is freemium, free to start with paid tiers for scale, and grew into the widely-used token-gating standard for Discord and Telegram, “trusted by 1000+ teams organizing communities” per its own homepage (read 24 August 2026, and unchanged since the 1 January 2026 capture). It sits in the access-and-identity slot of the broader [DAO tooling stack](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/dao-tooling-overview), alongside contribution tools like [Coordinape](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/treasury/coordinape) and voting layers like [Snapshot](/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/voting/snapshot): Guild decides who is in the community, and the governance tools decide what the community does.

## How Caper approaches this

Guild is the best answer to one specific question – _gate this space by what a wallet holds right now_. But a token gate is a snapshot: hold the token today and you are in; sell it, or return the tokens you borrowed for the check, and the role is revoked. It governs _access_, and access is exactly the thing a well-funded buyer can rent for an afternoon.

A [caper](/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) does not gate access at all – anyone can buy the token and become a member. What it makes un-rentable is the claim on the treasury. A member’s redemption weight at [exit](/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) is `(t·v)/(V·T)`, combining tokens held with `v`, a [soulbound](/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/membership/soulbound-tokens) token that accrues at `0.01` per XRD on both legs of every trade and whose depositor role admits only the caper’s own state component – so it can never be sent to another wallet. Be precise about what that does and does not buy you: `v` plainly _has_ a price, and it is a published one. What it does not have is a market. You cannot borrow it for a check and hand it back, and selling your caper tokens does not carry your `v` to the buyer – they must accrue their own, at their own cost, in their own account.

The two are complementary rather than competing: a caper could happily use Guild to gate a token-holders’ Discord. Guild decides who is in the room this minute; a caper decides what each member may take out of the treasury, and makes that claim something no one can lend them.

## References

- Guild, [How Guild works](https://docs.guild.xyz/guild/how-guild-works) (Requirements, Roles, Rewards)
- Guild, [How to set up rewards](https://docs.guild.xyz/guild/how-to-setup-rewards)
- Guild Knowledge Base, [Wallets & social accounts](https://help.guild.xyz/en/articles/6934741-wallets-social-accounts)
- Gitcoin, [Guild.xyz and Gitcoin Passport partner to stop bots and sybil attackers](https://guild.xyz/humanpassport)
- [Agora Space](https://agora.space/) (the team behind Guild); company profile via [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/guildxyz)