GitHub Bounties

Public roadmap

Shipped versions and what is next. No invented ship dates. Editable in docs/roadmap.md.

  1. V1

    Shipped

    USDC escrow + merge is truth

    Google sign-in, GitHub App, board, 2% fee, winner = merged PR author that closes funded #N.

  2. V2

    Shipped

    Parallel hunt + participation pool

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-19 (githubbounties.xyz, Base mainnet USDC). V2-0…V2-5: 15% of post-fee to up to 10 hunters, signals, roster, claim-lock sunset.

  3. Pool Claim

    Shipped

    Pool member self-claim

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-20. Manual pool Claim (#47). Winner Claim pays winner + fee only. Each frozen pool hunter Claims their own share when they have a wallet.

  4. FE

    Shipped

    FE epic

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-20. Homepage stats, this public roadmap, and vs-Lightning differentiators. Same aggregates as GET /api/stats. Bounty pages include the payout split charts.

  5. V3

    Shipped

    V3 wave

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-21. Full GitHub issue + Gemini about/stack/complexity (AI estimates, cached). Related polish: board badges/filters, Settings/Post connected-only, homepage motion/roadmap refresh.

  6. Funding

    Shipped

    Funding wave

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-24. Crowdfunding (#61): USDC top-ups on already-funded bounties. Fund any public issue (#64) without installing the GitHub App, with Claim running through the public merge poller. Funder avatars (#65 to #67) on the board cards and on the bounty page Funders list.

  7. V4

    Shipped

    API + MCP

    DONE, LIVE on PROD 2026-09-25. /api/v1 (OpenAPI) + /mcp, version 4.5.0, 24 operations, 25 tools (#76 #79 #80 #81 #78). API money is OFF on PROD.

    MCP

  8. V5

    Next

    GitHub-native /bounty

    GitHub-native bounty creation via a `/bounty` comment on a GitHub issue. Roadmap only. Nothing is built.

  9. V6+

    Then

    Agent economy

    The agent economy on x402. No ship date.

  10. BTC

    Parked

    BTC payouts

    Parked. No schedule.

  11. Checkout

    Parked

    Hosted Coinbase checkout

    Parked until settlement fee / net proceeds equal face (ADR 0001). x402 exact remains the fund rail.