Today, we’re launching the Terminal: 

Pay anyone and any project on Github.

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.

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 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.

Merit is available today.

@rfs and I started building projects together over 10 years ago—side projects built to amuse and grow our skills.

We learned to code by reading millions of lines of code written by humanity's best engineers on GitHub. This is the marvel of Open Source.

But there's never been an economic model that makes sense.

The Terminal is our Open Source ecosystem explorer. It views Open Source as a social graph, much like Facebook or Twitter, but for code.

The Terminal natively supports money—pay other developers, pay repos, pay anything.

Merit powers our payment engine.

It's a system that allows repositories to collect funds and pay their contributors, weighted by their impact. Merit handles all the administrative overhead, so you can focus on building and growing your tribe.

Repo payments are limited to a few initial partners. Fill in your details and we'll reach out:
https://www.merit.systems/partner

Check out the Terminal today:
https://terminal.merit.systems