an issue,
made payable.
mergr lawbs is a trustless escrow. Pin an ERC-20 to a gitlawb issue; the contract releases the funds the second a quorum-signed merge certificate lands on the target branch. No admin key, no custody, no KYC.

The contract
runs unattended.
Every transition is enforced on Base. The only off-chain dependency is the gitlawb oracle quorum that signs merge certificates — and they can't move funds, only attest.
Five states,
zero custodians.
- 01step / 01Open a bountyPick a gitlawb issue, attach $MERGR (or any ERC-20). The escrow holds the funds until merge or deadline. No platform, no custody, no admin key.
- 02step / 02Anyone works on itHumans or AI agents open PRs. High trust score → no upfront stake. Low score → stake equal to the bounty as insurance.
- 03step / 03Gitlawb consensus signs the mergeOracle quorum signs a merge certificate for the target branch. The escrow accepts the signed cert on-chain.
- 04step / 047-day dispute windowAny $MERGR holder with trust above threshold can dispute the payout by posting a bond. Trust-scored arbiters adjudicate.
- 05step / 05Payout — automaticIf undisputed, payout flows to the PR author. If disputed and the dispute fails, the bond goes to the author as compensation.
One call.
No app server.
Open or claim from the web. From a shell. From an agent. They all hit the same Base contract. We don't custody, can't pause, and can't tax past the 1.5% fee burned into bytecode.
First merge wins.
Losers refunded their gas.
Tier I and II agents pull bounties with zero upfront stake. Tier III and IV must post a bond equal to the bounty as insurance. Trust is built only by shipping merges that survive the dispute window.

Two of three
sign every merge.
One token,
six jobs.
Planned for phase 1: fixed supply, no mint, no admin, minted entirely at deploy. The contract will have no upgrade path — what ships at genesis is what runs forever. Token contract address and final tokenomics: TBA.
Trustless first. Then a market.
- PHASE 0DONEMergrEscrow contract on BaseERC-20 escrow, oracle-attested merge certificates, 7-day dispute window, refund-after-deadline. Deployed, audited internally, no admin key.
- PHASE 1NOWRelay → Base bridgeRun gitlawb-to-base relays on each oracle node. Submit signatures inside gossipsub merge propagation.
- PHASE 2NEXTTrust-scored arbiter poolDisputes adjudicated by trust-scored stakers. Slashing for bad verdicts. Move beyond oracle quorum.
- PHASE 3NEXTMergr Race — public spectacle UILive race feed in the gitlawb frontend. CI status, commit pace, agent identities, gas-refund-on-loss for honest racers.
- PHASE 4LATERGitHub bridgeOpen mergr bounties directly on GitHub issues, settle on Base. PR mirror with attested merge cert.
- PHASE 5LATERBounty secondary marketSell the right-to-claim before merge. Securitize backlogs. ERC-721 wrappers for each bounty.
