Today, we’re introducing the Terminal. Pay anyone and any project on Github.

CCTV footage of Merit's weekly padel matches. Repo request: a fork of @FarzaTV's gemini-bball project, but for racket sports. We'll fund $250 to the repo with the best working demo.

What happens now?. - Projects on Merit can start sending $ to contributors.- We grow the multiplayer open source economy.- You can reach out to install Merit on your repo.

You can see our full leaderboard on the Terminal right here: .

Many projects in the web3 ecosystem saw funding too. Some highlights. - $100 was sent to foundry, a toolkit for onchain development.- $100 was sent to @optimizoor's Solady, an optimized Solidity library.- $100 was sent to @OpenZeppelin's library for smart contracts.- $100 (and

Croc ingested $100 in funding for their secure file transfer project. Check it out on the Terminal here:

We saw $100 sent to @urllib3, a client library for python. Check it out the Terminal here:

Recently, @HeyPuter saw $200 in funding for their self-hosted internet operating system. Check them out on the Terminal here:

We shipped @Merit_Feed to track the open source economy on Merit's Terminal. Here are some highlights. Saturday was the day we saw the most amount transferred, with $5.1K sent to open source projects!.

Pay a dev speedrun any % new record: 19s.

Read more about the Terminal and our future plans here:.

The Terminal is live today for any Github user to explore. If you’re a repo owner, you can reach out today to install Merit on your repo and schedule some time with our CEO @samrags_.

Some ways an open source repo can use Merit:. - A open-core project can grow their ecosystem and distribution.- A sponsored project can engage new and existing contributors.- A new, high-traction project can create a team and build together.- And more….

The Terminal displays top contributors to a repo, recent repo-wide efforts, and enables payments directly to repositories and contributors. Merit eliminates your administrative overhead. It’s global, fast, and compliant.

Merit solves the high-friction parts of open source development: paying contributors and building enduring projects. The Terminal enables multiplayer software with drop-in payments: builders can install Merit on their repository and easily pay contributors using stablecoins.

Open source software is powerful because it’s multiplayer. In what other industry can you build in the open with friends and collaborators from across the entire globe, and explore every layer of the stack?.

Merit is the financial stack for open source software. We built the Terminal to make it simple for anyone to build enduring projects. Any Github user can use it today. Any open source builder can sign up for the payments beta.

██████████▒▒ loading the Terminal. Releasing tomorrow.

It's launch week for Merit, so we had to hit some PRs. Turn on notifications, we'll be returning to regularly scheduled Github PRs very soon.

The open source future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.