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huntr Challenge: Blind Trust — Turn Their Trust Against Them
When it actually closes
Safe cutoff
challenge page data
- Stated
- “Ends October 30th, 3:00PM CUT”
- Printed zone
- CUT
- IANA zone
- UTC
- UTC
- 2026-10-30T15:00:00Z
- Your time
- Fri Oct 30, 3:00 PM UTC (loading your time zone…)
The trap: 'CUT' is a typo for UTC. 15:00 UTC is 8:00 AM in Las Vegas.
Prizes
$15,000 cash · 45 slots
$15,000 across two independent leaderboards; one player can place on both. (1) Fewest Tokens, $4,800: each of the 3 objectives (Privileged Access, Poisoned Paperwork, The Quiet Part) has its own $1,600 sub-pool paying top 5 at $600/$400/$300/$200/$100. (2) Moving Target, $10,200, top 30 overall: $1,600, $1,150, $900, $750, $600, $500, $450, $400, $350, $300 for ranks 1-10; then $250 each for ranks 11-15, $200 each for 16-20, $120 each for 21-25 and $70 each for 26-30.
Fewest Tokens — rank 1 (×3 objectives)
cash · ×3
$600
Fewest Tokens — rank 2 (×3 objectives)
cash · ×3
$400
Fewest Tokens — rank 3 (×3 objectives)
cash · ×3
$300
Fewest Tokens — rank 4 (×3 objectives)
cash · ×3
$200
Fewest Tokens — rank 5 (×3 objectives)
cash · ×3
$100
Moving Target — rank 1
cash
$1,600
Moving Target — rank 2
cash
$1,150
Moving Target — rank 3
cash
$900
Moving Target — rank 4
cash
$750
Moving Target — rank 5
cash
$600
Moving Target — rank 6
cash
$500
Moving Target — rank 7
cash
$450
Moving Target — rank 8
cash
$400
Moving Target — rank 9
cash
$350
Moving Target — rank 10
cash
$300
Moving Target — ranks 11-15
cash · ×5
$250
Moving Target — ranks 16-20
cash · ×5
$200
Moving Target — ranks 21-25
cash · ×5
$120
Moving Target — ranks 26-30
cash · ×5
$70
Eligibility
Individuals: eligible
As a Contributor you affirm you are fully capable and empowered, being over 18 years old and you have your own bank account
Checked for one adult entering alone from Nevada, USA. Rules can differ by country, so read the rule quoted here for where you live.
Entry cost
Free to enter
Payout
stripe
Cash via Stripe Connect. After your first prize, Huntr emails you to create a Stripe Connect account and pass Stripe's identity check (KYC) and give payment info. The challenge FAQ says winners are invited on the 25th of each month.
Rights — what you give up
assigned-to-sponsor
Participation Terms 7.1: you assign to Palo Alto Networks, Inc. all IP rights in your Contribution and related "Vulnerability Information", worldwide, perpetually, irrevocably and exclusively. That includes the rights to commercialize it and build it into products.
Gotchas
- Pay depends only on where you rank when the board locks at 2026-10-30 15:00 UTC (8:00 AM PDT). Today's position can be pushed out of the money later.
- Ties go to the earliest timestamp, so matching a leader's token count later still ranks you below them. The Privileged Access Fewest Tokens #1 is already a 9-token prompt, so that $600 is realistically gone.
- Opening: in the cached snapshot, Poisoned Paperwork had 0 solves, so its whole $1,600 Fewest Tokens sub-pool (5 slots) was open. Moving Target ranks 7-30 were empty, so any single solve paid for now. Expect this to fill before Oct 30.
- The leaderboard data came from a prerendered page served from Vercel's cache (x-vercel-cache: HIT); the newest solve is timestamped 2026-09-22. Live standings may differ.