Contributing to GoodDollar

Everyone is welcome — developers, designers, writers, founders, students, and hobbyists alike. Whatever your background, there's a path to contribute that fits your skills and availability.

GoodDollar is a nonprofit, open-source protocol building Universal Basic Income (UBI) on-chain through the G$ token. We maintain smart contracts, SDKs, and dApps that make it easy for anyone to integrate G$ into real-world products.

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Ways to Contribute

1. Build a Project with G$

The GoodBuilders Program supports teams building on GoodDollar with mentorship and funding.

2. Solve/Review a Bounty

Bounties are how most open source contributors get involved. There are four roles in the pipeline:

Contributor — the AI opens a PR with a first-pass solution. You take it from there: review the AI's code, fix what's wrong, fill gaps, and get it to a standard worth reviewing by a human.

Reviewer — a human reviewer checks the Contributor's corrected version. You validate correctness, catch anything still missed, and approve it for QA.

QA — test the actual behavior of the changes in a real environment. You confirm the fix works end-to-end and file structured bug reports for anything that doesn't pass.

Maintainer — final sign-off before merge and payout approval.

Browse Open Bounties Github Board. Issues are labeled gd-bounty-<tier> (e.g. gd-bounty-basic)

A single person can hold both Reviewer and QA roles on the same bounty. See [Open Source Contributors] for the full role guide and how to progress.

3. Propose Your Own Idea

Have something in mind? Propose it through the Gardens Pool for Open Source Contributors.


Summary of how a Bounty Works

Each bounty follows this flow. Learn more

New here?

Start with Open Source Contributors to find the right role for you, then head over to the Bounty Tiers to understand scope and rewards


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Your contributions, large or small, help advance GoodDollar's mission to reduce wealth inequality through open, decentralized tools.

Thank you for your interest building with us, and welcome to GoodDollar!

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