how it works
A repository becomes a payout list
Then a coin routes its trading fees down it.
Where a contributor's address comes from
Every GitHub account has a permanent numeric ID. That number, with a fixed prefix, produces one Solana address and only one. Anyone can work out the same address from the same account, so there is nothing to trust and nothing to look up.
Why nobody needs a wallet
The address exists whether or not the person has ever touched crypto. Money sent to it sits there under their name until they decide to collect. They can ignore it for years and it stays theirs.
How the split is worked out
We read the contributor list and commit counts from GitHub. You choose whether shares follow commit count directly, a flattened version that stops the top contributor taking almost everything, or an even split, and you can edit any single share. The result is exact basis points adding to 10000.
Repositories too large to list
GitHub refuses to list contributors for repositories with very long histories, such as linux or chromium. For those we tally the most recent 500 commits instead, and the page says so. It rewards whoever is working on it now rather than all time.
What you can check yourself
Every payout address is a real mainnet account. Paste any of them into a block explorer and you will see the same balance we show. The waiting and collected columns are read live from Solana.
Who cannot be paid
Organisation accounts cannot collect, so fees routed to one are burned permanently. We filter them out, along with bots and deleted accounts, before anything reaches a config.