Treasure Hunt | Interactive Event Engagement Game for Conferences

Treasure Hunt - Interactive Event Engagement Game

Turn Your Event Into a
Gamified Experience

Attendees explore, scan checkpoints, earn real rewards, and drive foot traffic where you need it. Straight from the phone browser, no app download required.

Deployed at ETHDenver, Future Maker & more · 10,000+ treasure finds · 500+ checkpoints · 500+ players

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Deployed At
ETHDenverFuture Maker - NOVA IMS Career FairPortugal Smart Cities SummitFestival da Juventude · CadavalBlockchain Confluence
01 / Features

Built for Organizers.
Loved by Attendees.

Treasure Hunt turns any event into a live adventure. Attendees earn points by exploring your space, completing challenges, and discovering hidden checkpoints. Points unlock real rewards at the built-in store.

Guide Foot Traffic

You decide where checkpoints go. Every checkpoint is a reason to walk across the venue, driving traffic to sponsors, booths, and underexplored areas.

Reward Real Participation

Attendees earn rewards for engaging, not just showing up. Points they can spend in the built-in merch store on exclusive items and sponsor rewards.

Zero Friction Setup

Place NFC tags or QR codes anywhere. Attendees sign in once and are playing in seconds. No app. No downloads. No friction.

Track Everything in Real Time

See which checkpoints are visited, which areas are underexplored, and who your most engaged attendees are. Live analytics for organizers.

02 / Demo

See What Participants Experienced Across 7 Events

Treasure Hunt home screen at ETHDenver

Home base: scan, explore, compete

Interactive venue map with checkpoint tracking

Interactive venue map with live checkpoint tracking

Live leaderboard at ETHDenver

Live leaderboard keeps players competing all day

Built-in merch store

Built-in merch store where rewards become real items

+Treasure Finds
+Venue Checkpoints
M+Rewards Minted
Events Deployed

ETHDenver 2026

Denver, CO · Feb 18–21

992 treasures · 59 checkpoints

462K BUFFI · 4 days

Smart Cities Summit 2026

FIL Pavilhão 3, Lisbon · May 12–14

8,123 treasures · 103 checkpoints

159K FIL · 3 days

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Future Maker 2026

NOVA IMS, Lisbon · Mar 16–19

2,591 treasures · 115 checkpoints

1M FM · 3 days

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Cadaval Festival 2026

Cadaval, Portugal · May 22–23

2,182 treasures · 57 checkpoints

76,775 FCT · 2 days

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Spring Bootcamp 2026

NOVA IMS, Lisbon · Apr 7

7 teams · 220 treasures

45,650 SB · 42 checkpoints

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03 / Media

How It Plays Out, In Their Words

An interview from the floor of the Portugal Smart Cities Summit, plus photos and clips from live deployments.

Interview
Treasure Hunt is a gamification of the conference itself. We hide treasures around the venue, and players find the spots and tap their phone to claim a reward. More than half the booths joined in, and it drives real interaction between attendees and the exhibition.
Dinis Araújo
CTO, NOVA Blockchain Lab
Filmed at the Portugal Smart Cities Summit, FIL Pavilhão 3
From the events
Attendees holding Official Treasure Hunt flyers with tap-to-claim QR codes at the event booth
Treasure Hunt staffer demoing the game to a crowd at the NOVA Cidade booth
Event team celebrating together under the venue lights
04 / How It Works

Five Steps.
Zero Friction.

01

Open and Play Instantly

Attendees visit a URL on their phone and sign in with one tap. No app download, no account setup. They’re playing in a few seconds.

02

Explore the Venue

Checkpoints are placed where you want traffic. Attendees follow the map, discover hidden spots, and uncover rewards across your space.

03

Scan to Earn

One tap on an NFC tag or scan of a QR code. Instant reward, automatically tracked. Every interaction becomes a data point for you.

04

Compete and Collaborate

Live leaderboards fuel friendly competition. Social challenges and team missions keep energy high throughout the event.

05

Spend Real Rewards

Points unlock exclusive rewards and prizes. Attendees leave with something real to remember your event.

You place the checkpoints. You set the rewards. We handle everything else.

What Powers It All

Why It Feels Like Magic

Behind every scan, every reward, and every leaderboard update is real infrastructure built for speed, transparency, and zero friction. Your attendees never see the complexity. They just play.

Runs on Nova Cidade L3

A dedicated Layer 3 blockchain network built for speed. Designed to support thousands of simultaneous players with no delays or failures, even at peak activity.

Zero Cost to Participants

A built-in paymaster covers all transaction fees. Attendees collect rewards, spend at the merch store, and climb leaderboards without ever paying a cent.

One-Tap Sign-In

No seed phrases, no wallet setup, no tech knowledge needed. Attendees sign in like any other app. We handle the smart account deployment and key management behind the scenes.

Fully Transparent & Auditable

Every reward minted, every checkpoint scanned, every merch purchase, all recorded and verifiable. Give sponsors and stakeholders engagement data they can trust.

05 / Social Proof

Don’t Take Our Word for It

Seriously!! The treasure hunt was a HUGE SUCCESS! You guys played a big role in creating the ETH Denver experience! Well done!

Nick
Head of the Makerspace, ETHDenver

My booth was tucked in a back corner, I barely had anyone stopping by. Then Treasure Hunt hid a checkpoint at my spot and suddenly people kept showing up. They’d scan the tag, see my custom kicks, and start buying. That one checkpoint completely turned my weekend around.

Custom Sneaker Vendor
ETHDenver 2026

No app download, no complicated setup. Players were scanning checkpoints within 30 seconds of signing in. The merch store was a huge hit.

NOVA Blockchain Lab
Platform Developer
06 / Packages

One Platform,
Built for Any Event Size

Start free for small events. Scale to thousands with full engagement tools, sponsor analytics, and on-site support.

Starter

Treasure Hunt branding (no customisation).

Up to 100 attendees

Checkpoints
Customised look and feel
QR code checkpoints
NFC tag checkpoints
Custom checkpoint design
Engagement
Merch store
Real-time leaderboard
Interactive venue map
Voting polls
Custom social follow rewards
Strategic sponsor placement
Players can hide checkpoints
Support & Scale
On-site support staff
Custom feature development
Multi-event dashboard
Post-event analytics report

Pro

Most Popular

Everything to impress the public and sponsors.

100 to 1,000 attendees

Checkpoints
Customised look and feel
QR code checkpoints
NFC tag checkpoints
Custom checkpoint design
Engagement
Merch store
Real-time leaderboard
Interactive venue map
Voting polls
Custom social follow rewards
Strategic sponsor placement
Players can hide checkpoints
Support & Scale
On-site support staff
Custom feature development
Multi-event dashboard
Post-event analytics report

Enterprise

Custom features. Analytics. Multi-event scale.

1,000+ attendees

Checkpoints
Customised look and feel (White-label)
QR code checkpoints
NFC tag checkpoints (custom)
Custom checkpoint design
Engagement
Merch store
Real-time leaderboard
Interactive venue map
Voting polls
Custom social follow rewards
Strategic sponsor placement
Players can hide checkpoints
Support & Scale
On-site support staff
Custom feature development
Multi-event dashboard
Post-event analytics report
07 / FAQ

Common
Questions

As fast as 48 hours. We handle the tech, you tell us where the checkpoints go and what rewards to offer.

No. It runs entirely in the phone browser. One tap to sign in, playing in a few seconds.

Yes. Pro and Enterprise packages include custom checkpoint design and reward names. The Enterprise package includes white-label branding.

The design and setup of both QR codes and NFC tags is included in the respective packages. We handle everything so your team doesn't have to.

A real-time dashboard with checkpoint visits, engagement heatmaps, and leaderboard standings is available on all plans during the game activation. Enterprise adds a full post-event analytics report to share with sponsors and a multi-event dashboard to track and compare performance across the most significant events, enabling the identification of strengths, weaknesses, and what truly drove engagement.

Starter covers events up to 100 attendees. Pro scales up to 1,000, and Enterprise handles everything above that.

Ready to Make Your Next Event
Unforgettable?

Treasure Hunt deploys in days. Tell us about your event and we’ll show you what’s possible.

Battle-tested across multiple events, thousands of players, and hundreds of prizes collected.

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