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Bounties and Sponsorship

tscircuit has thousands of dollars (USD) of bounties opened every month in over 50 new weekly issues. We also automatically sponsor regular contributors hundreds of dollars each based on their contributions. All of this activity is tracked in the open-source contribution-tracker, which powers contributions.tscircuit.com and resets every Wednesday.

How the contribution tracker works​

  • Every PR across the tscircuit GitHub org is scanned and summarized via an LLM so we can consistently understand the scope of each change.
  • The LLM classifies each diff/PR into attributes such as 🐳 Major, 🐙 Minor, and 🐌 Tiny impact levels and assigns a star rating that feeds the weekly score shown on the sponsorship leaderboard.
  • The resulting data is organized into the sections you see on the tracker—such as Contributor Overview, PRs by Repository, and PRs by Contributor—so you can quickly understand where impactful work is happening across the ecosystem.
  • Historical exports, including weekly contribution overviews and AI-generated monthly changelogs, are kept directly in the contribution-tracker repo if you want to dig deeper into past activity.

Many people follow the bounties channel on discord or our bounty board to find issues to contribute to, but this is actually the hardest way to get bounties!

tip

You can quickly find issues (with or without bounties) by spinning the wheel of issues

The easiest way to get bounties and sponsorship is to actually use tscircuit and try to build a circuit. When you find something confusing or buggy, create an issue. When you create an issue that gets bountied, you get extra points on the contribution tracker and you become the best person to fix the issue because you understand it so well! If you continually do this, you'll find that there are infinite issues to be done!

How sponsorship amounts are calculated​

Sponsorship payouts are based on the last four weeks of star ratings captured by the tracker. The algorithm takes the median, minimum, and maximum weekly star counts to decide on a base amount—ranging from $15 for occasional stars up to $500 for consistently high-impact weeks—with a $5 safety net for anyone whose historical high score stays above 3. You can read the current logic directly in getSponsorshipAmount.ts for the exact thresholds.

Maintainers receive an additional fixed monthly sponsorship on top of the weekly calculation so their support stays stable. Those maintainer bonuses are defined alongside the algorithm in the tracker codebase.

To be eligible for Github Sponsorship, you must be in a supported country and have Github Sponsors enabled on your Github profile.