If you have just signed up to home.renovation.reviews and are wondering what $RENO is and how you actually earn it, this is the practical walkthrough. The full mechanics are at Welcome to $RENO — Quests, Rewards, Leaderboard and the public payout record is at $RENO Payment Ledger — this topic covers what new members need to know in their first week.
What $RENO is, briefly
$RENO is the community currency for the forum. It is contribution-only — you do not buy it, there is no presale, and there is no claim button. Your balance grows automatically as you participate in ways the forum already rewards: posting, replying, getting likes, visiting on consecutive days, completing trust-level milestones, and engaging with the leaderboard. The score is server-side and updates in the background. You will never see a “claim” prompt because there is nothing to claim — the score itself is the record.
The 15 quest categories
The gamification engine credits $RENO automatically against 15 categories:
- Onboarding (8 quests) — completing your profile, adding a Solana wallet, reading the welcome topic
- Reviewer (24 quests) — posting reviews, replies, and follow-ups in the contractor-review categories
- Topic Starter (15 quests) — starting new threads and seeing them gather replies
- Helper (16 quests) — answering questions in the homeowner help categories
- Beloved (16 quests) — receiving likes on your posts at increasing thresholds
- Days Visited (18 quests) — visiting the forum on consecutive days
- Reader (13 quests) — reading topics from start to finish
- Voyager (13 quests) — visiting different categories
- Time Read (12 quests) — cumulative time spent on topics
- Trust Level (4 quests) — promotions through Discourse trust levels
- Charity (5 quests) — participating in charity threads (Samm Simon 251 KM run for cancer research)
- $RENO Holder (20 quests) — crossing balance thresholds and holding for streaks
- Leaderboard (11 quests) — placing on the daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboard
- Streaks (14 quests) — daily-visit and posting streaks
- Milestones (20 quests) — major contribution milestones (100th post and similar)
Most members hit several categories every week without trying. The point of the breakdown is to show you which contribution shapes count — there is no single “main” activity.
The tier ladder
Your forum title is set automatically by your $RENO balance:
- Beginner — 0
- Bronze — 100
- Silver — 1,000
- Gold — 5,000
- Platinum — 25,000
- Diamond — 50,000
The title is granted by a Discourse badge tied to your server-side $RENO score, not stored client-side, so it cannot be manipulated by editing the page in devtools. When you cross a tier threshold, the badge granter (a SQL pass that runs hourly) re-grades your title in the next sweep — usually within an hour, sometimes sooner.
What to focus on in your first week
The fastest path from Beginner (0) to Bronze (100) for most new members:
- Complete your profile, add your Solana wallet, read the welcome topic — Onboarding category covers ~30 $RENO right there.
- Visit the forum on 7 consecutive days — Days Visited category adds another ~20-40 $RENO over the week.
- Answer one homeowner question substantively — Helper category adds ~15-30 depending on how the answer is received.
- Get one of your posts liked — Beloved + leaderboard ripple usually adds another ~10-25 over the next few days.
That puts most active new members at Bronze within their first week. Silver (1,000) is achievable in 3-4 weeks of regular contribution. Gold and above are for long-term members.
A note on the Solana wallet field
When you sign up, the form has a Solana wallet field. Filling this in is what makes you eligible for on-chain settlement when $RENO mints to mainnet. Pre-mint, your balance is recorded forum-side; post-mint, the same balance settles to the wallet you linked here. The payment ledger at $RENO Payment Ledger has columns for both pre-mint and post-mint rows, so the audit trail carries through the on-chain handoff.
If you signed up without adding a wallet, you can add or update it later in your Discourse user settings.
Common questions
- Do I lose $RENO if I stop posting? No. The score is monotonic — it only goes up. Tier titles persist.
- Can I send $RENO to other users? Not pre-mint. Post-mint, on-chain transfer will be the mechanism.
- What is the payment ledger? A public, append-only forum thread that records every $RENO payout event. Anyone can audit it: $RENO Payment Ledger
- Where is the leaderboard? /leaderboard/1 — top 100 active contributors by $RENO score.
Track your $RENO progress on this topic as you work through your first month. Top contributors at the homeowner-and-trades intersection are tier-up candidates. Drop a reply with your first-week numbers.