GitHub BountiesDEV

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

    LIVE on PROD 2026-09-25. /api/v1 (OpenAPI) + /mcp (#76 #79 #80 #81 #78). API money is OFF on PROD. PROD serves 4.5.0. 4.11.0 is the DEV and main API version (29 operations, 30 tools) and adds the provider field.

    MCP

  8. V5

    Shipped

    MCP page, unfunded edits, admin

    DONE. /mcp is the MCP server endpoint and its docs page. Posters edit an unfunded bounty amount on the web, REST, and MCP (update_bounty_amount). The admin dashboard on admin hosts sets fee and pool, lists bounties with trash and refund, gates refunds on ADMIN_REFUND_ENABLED, and gates fee-wallet withdraws on ADMIN_WITHDRAW_ENABLED with a single-use confirm token and a duplicate guard. Admin actions write an admin audit log. No recorded PROD date.

  9. V6

    In progress

    Hugging Face

    Bounties on Hugging Face discussions and PRs. In progress. No ship date. Creating a discussion bounty requires HF_BOUNTIES_ENABLED=1. A linked hunter submits a pull request URL on an open funded discussion bounty. A merged pull request can create an eligible winner claim.

  10. V7

    Next

    /bounty command

    A /bounty command on GitHub and Hugging Face. Roadmap only. Nothing is built. No ship date.

  11. V8

    Then

    Agent economy

    The agent economy on x402. No ship date.

  12. BTC

    Parked

    BTC payouts

    Parked. No schedule.

  13. Checkout

    Parked

    Hosted Coinbase checkout

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