Standard vs On-Demand

Claims, at their core, are just criteria checks, but there are two ways we can check this criteria. The first is standard claims which require a "complete claim" process or action:

• Criteria is checked at completion time

• Claim numbers are assigned

• Can maintain statefulness

• Ledger of users who have claimed

The second is on-demand (sometimes described as non-indexed). These are a special type of claim that has unique properties. Notably, they are autonomous, self-contained, can be fetched on-demand, stateless, does not require any user inputs, sessions, and can function with just a user address / creator parameters.

The critieria is not indexed anywhere but rather calculated on-demand.

• No indexing

• No claim numbers

• No verifiable list of users who have claimed

• Limited in feature set because you need to be able to check criteria at any time, so you cannot use authenticated sessions or other apporaches

• Calculated in real-time

• No success webhooks

For example, checking a minimum balance of BADGE is safe to use on-demand because we always know a user's balance at any given time wihtout user interaction and just their address. Another common on-demand check is token ownership as shown below.