How WhaleRanked works
Choose the move. See the rank.
WhaleRanked is a deterministic paid leaderboard. There are no judges, votes, prizes, or hidden scoring systems: higher completed totals rank first, and earlier payment wins a tie.
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Enter one public identity
Use a company domain, product URL, public profile, or X @handle. WhaleRanked resolves its public name, description, destination, favicon, or profile image before payment.
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Choose a whole-dollar total
New positions start at $1. Use the $1 controls to move from $1 up to the supported $999,999 ceiling; the projected rank updates immediately as the total changes.
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Pay from the wallet you already use
Choose BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, or USDT on an enabled source network, including Polygon. LI.FI quotes the route to exact Circle USDC settlement on Ethereum; WhaleRanked and Privy never receive a private key or seed phrase.
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Build a public competitive record
The leaderboard records current rank, verified total, primary identity, click totals, and completed move history. The payment buys this deterministic digital result—not a promise of traffic or duration.
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Return when a rival passes you
Sign in with the same private Privy account, enter the same canonical identity, choose a new total above the current one, and pay only the difference from any enabled payment wallet.
Why the product can compound
A normal leaderboard records an outcome. WhaleRanked creates a visible competitive decision: move above a rival, take the lead, defend a position, or return when another contender passes you. Every completed move updates the same public record.
What the payment buys
A deterministic leaderboard rank, a verified contender identity, first-party outbound click measurement, and an entry in the public move history—not equity, a prize, an investment, guaranteed traffic, or ownership of the site. Another completed takeover can move the listing down at any time.
Built independently
WhaleRanked is an independent personal project by @victordascencao. Its $1 total controls, projected-rank pricing, resolved public identities, first-party click methodology, and public move receipts form one original product system.
Click methodology
Every project and social destination opens through a first-party WhaleRanked redirect. Obvious bots, crawlers, previews, prefetches, and prerenders are excluded. Repeat clicks to the same destination from the same browser are counted once within a ten-minute window. The public total measures outbound leaderboard clicks only; it is not a promise of unique people, conversions, or commercial results. WhaleRanked does not use this counter for cross-site tracking.