FAQs
Q: What is Hot Drops?
A: Hot Drops is a female founded and female-led company that celebrates diversity and decentralization. We believe in empowering everyone. No matter what your inclination – you are welcome in our community. Our inclusive marketplace is disrupting how creators and fans connect with next-gen content, exclusive, limited-edition collectibles, community, and loyalty rewards. With Hot Drops your collectible acts as a VIP access badge that grants entry to hot experiences not available anywhere else. Hot Drops is where creativity ignites and communities heat up!
Q: Who is a Hot Drops Hottie?
A: We cheekily refer to our content creators as Hot Drops Hotties as they create and drop the hottest new content for their fans. We collaborate with a wide variety of creators such as: influencers (beauty, blockchain, crypto, cosplay, fashion, fitness, food, lifestyle, travel, etc.), models, photographers, directors, gamers, podcasters, athletes, artists, musicians, comedians, brands, and more!
Q: What is a Digital Collectible?
A: A Digital Collectible is an exclusive token purchased on the Blockchain. The token can unlock exclusive content that is only available to the purchaser. To view the exclusive content you must have a digital wallet that you import or create on the Hot Drops Marketplace to store your digital collectibles in.
Q: Why is Hot Drops Different for Fans?
A: Our fans get access to exclusive digital images, videos, content, and experiences that can only personalize their experience and choose what content they want to see through our search filters. Our fans can support creators directly and get real-world value for their money through collecting our Digital Collectibles, reselling them to other fans on the Hot Drops Marketplace, earning loyalty rewards, building relationships with other fans in creator fan club communities and having experiences only available here at Hot Drops.
Q: How is Hot Drops an online child protection advocate?
A: We Take Online Child Protection Seriously.
We spent 3 years iterating our first-of-its-kind technology stack to protect minors online from mature content. Our universal wallet with integrated with biometric age verification is ahead of the curve on domestic and international regulations. It maintains consumer anonymity and is a more effective wallet address based protocol instead of utilizing the current geofencing methods, which can be easily circumvented by VPNs. If a creator decides to attach any unlockable mature content to their digital collectibles, it is locked behind an encrypted DRM player and requires age verification before the bonus content can be displayed. Regardless of where the person owning the wallet travels to or logs in from around the world, they cannot access the content until they have been age verified 18 years of age or older. Even if a digital collectible is sold or transferred to another wallet off of our platform, the new holder will only be able to see the safe for work (SFW) content and will need to create an account at www.myhotdrops.io in order to age verify and unlock any possible mature bonus content, to ensure that our system can’t be circumvented.
Q: How does the Security/Privacy/Restricted access Work?
A: All Hot Drops Digital Collectibles are Safe For Work [SFW] non-explicit content anyone can purchase. It is a collectible that is transferred to your wallet and that you own. If the Digital Collectible contains unlockable mature content, you must have an 18+ age-authenticated Hot Drops account to be able to view the mature content.
Q: How do I purchase a Hot Drops Digital Collectible?
A: To purchase one of our Hottie’s Digital Collectibles, you will need to follow these simple steps:
1. Go to Myhotdrops.com, click on the Hot Drops Marketplace button, create or import a digital wallet, and set up your profile.
2. Select one of the many localized payment options to purchase MATIC tokens to add to your digital wallet or use your existing Metamask or Coinbase Wallet already funded with MATIC.
3. Once your account has been funded with MATIC, you can purchase the digital collectible (if available and not sold out).
4. Once you purchase the Digital Collectible, it will be transferred to your account and digital wallet, where you can see it, use it to access unlockable content or sell it on the Hot Drops Marketplace to other fans. Certain collectibles may also be sold on a secondary marketplace (i.e. Opensea).
Q: What is MATIC and why do I need to purchase it?
A: MATIC is a cryptocurrency, or digital currency token, on the Layer 2 Polygon network. Polygon is an EVM compatible network, meaning that it is built on top of the Ethereum Network foundation. Our digital collectibles are powered by Smart Contracts, which enable us to provide so many of our awesome security, privacy, royalty and gameification mechanisms. Fiat money (USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, AUS, INR, etc.) cannot be sent to a Smart Contract to complete a purchase, as they can only receive cryptocurrencies as payments.
Q: Why did you select MATIC as the cryptocurrency to run your marketplace on?
A: MATIC is a widely respected and utilized cryptocurrency around the world. It is easily purchasable from onramping services. MATIC allows us to provide fast, economical, and environmentally friendly transactions to our customers, as opposed to other networks with high network transaction fees, slower network processing times, and greater environmental impact.
Q: What if I can’t see my Digital Collectible in my Hot Drops account?
A: There are three ways to log in to your Hot Drops account: (1) With your existing cryptocurrency wallet (2) with an email address 3) with an OAuth login via your existing social media accounts. PLEASE NOTE: Each social login method creates a unique wallet address. If you login with a different account later, you won’t see purchases in your other wallets. If you purchase a Digital Collectible in one account, you can transfer the collectible to the other account via a wallet transfer.
Q: What if I have both a MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet?
A: You can only connect one web3 wallet to the Hot Drops Marketplace at a time. You will need to unpin the wallet extension you do not wish to use from your browser while using the Hot Drops Marketplace. When only one of the web3 wallet extensions is active, you will be automatically connected via the Connect Web3 button in the login option menu. Brave and Chrome are the preferred browsers for web3 connection due to their available extensions.
Q: What if I purchased one of the original Digital Collectibles on the old website and never received it?
A: Please contact Customer Service.
Why Creators Love Hot Drops:
ROYALTIES FOR LIFE! Even after you retire. Earn a percentage of all future resells of your content.
NO CHARGEBACKS! Since our platform is powered by smart contracts, customers purchase your digital collectibles using cryptocurrency (MATIC). Once payment has been sent from their digital wallet, it is not possible for the customer to cancel the payment or request a refund for fraud or other reasons like with credit cards. Your hard earned money is safe without fear of being clawed back in the future.
PIRACY REDUCTION Stop your content from being stolen and posted for free. We utilize the latest smart contract and cutting-edge encryption technology, so only the customers who purchase your content can view it. If they don’t hold the digital collectible in their wallet, they won’t be able to see or play it.
NO MORE SHADOW BANNING and DEPLATFORMING Hot Drops believes in your freedom of expression. No more pouring your hard work, time, and finances into building up a presence on a social platform to monetize your fan base, only to be scared and threatened your income could be taken away at any time.
IMPERSONATORS BE GONE! We manually interview and authenticate our content creators, who are established creators in their industry, not just anyone can sign-up. Your profile and content are authenticated, making it more valuable to your fans.
LIMITED-EDITION Sell your content in limited-edition quantities and collections. Once it sells out, it’s gone! Making your content collectible and increasing its value.
LOYALTY REWARDS Let’s shift the paradigm of fans and tube sites posting your hard work online for free! Hot Drops lets you reward your fans for their loyalty with bonus unlockable content, prizes, merchandise, VIP Club Access, IRL events, etc. The more they buy, the more they can potentially earn. YOU decide!
GAMEIFY YOUR CONTENT Incentivize your fans to buy certain content that they must own before they can unlock exclusive access to other content that no one else has access to. Say hello to a whole new world of monetization strategies to grow your bank account.
VIP FAN CLUBS Hot Drops is a community of fan club communities. We help you build community and relationships with your fans and allow them to get more intimate with you through our unique, immersive, and next-gen experiences.
MINIMAL TIME INVESTMENT Are you overwhelmed with the amount of content creation you need to keep up with these days to post across countless platforms? WE HEAR YOU! Hot Drops will help promote your content and brainstorm your revenue-building strategies on our platform to help you earn to your fullest potential. Since your content sold on Hot Drops is exclusive, limited-edition and are digital collectibles, your content can become more valuable and resaleable to other fans. CHA-CHING!
BY CREATORS FOR CREATORS Hot Drops was founded by a content creator with content creators and fans in mind. We understand your business and your pain points. We believe that ALL content creators deserve equitable representation and access to emerging technologies. We aren’t here to gouge you like some other corporate-ran platforms. We want to see our creators thrive because when you win, everyone wins.
FLEXIBLE PAYMENT OPTIONS Cash or crypto payouts. YOU choose!