We’re excited to announce that we’ve deployed meta-transactions for users who don’t have the ETH necessary to pay for gas. Initially, this will only be available for users while they are fulfilling bounties, which we see as an extremely important on-boarding moment for brand new users. …

How Bounties Can be Used to Incentivize the Growth of Culture in a Broad and Diverse Manner — Two weeks ago at Devcon 5, I was lucky enough to deliver a talk about a thesis which had been gestating for quite a while. The talk told the story of Bitcoin’s rise to global digital asset dominance, and explained the importance of culture for having gotten it there. I…

On September 4th, we were notified that the team from Mixbytes had discovered a new vulnerability in our contract code, which allowed for users to potentially refund their contributions a second time if they’d already been refunded by the issuer of a given bounty. An example of the attack vector: …

Going Live with StandardBounties 2.0 — When we first started working on The Bounties Network in Spring of 2017, our main goal was simple: to create a generalized protocol for bounties on Ethereum. This would allow for interoperable marketplaces to be built with ease, letting any application integrate the use of bounties as they saw fit. …

Last year, the Bounties Network team spent some time researching decentralized arbitration schemes, attempting to solve the difficulties that most marketplaces face around providing fair arbitration for users, which takes into account the changing contexts of the transactions they facilitate. Out of this sprung Delphi, a mechanism for p2p dispute…

From beach cleanups to user research, bounties are reinventing how organizations incentivize communities to take action — When we talk about the future of work, what we’re usually talking about is the future of earning: how are people’s sources of income changing? …

On December 1st and 2nd, Bounties Network, ConsenSys Social Impact, and Coins.ph came together for an event with one goal: to test how incentives could catalyze grass-roots environmental impact. — Our main intention with the BFTO bounty-based cleanup in Manila Bay was to test out how we could re-engineer the flow of money and its distribution patterns by actively involving local communities through cryptocurrency based incentives. …

The Ethereum Dispute Resolution Alliance — by Dean Eigenmann and Mark Beylin In case it wasn’t already obvious, Ethereum needs robust, unopinionated dispute resolution systems. While Ethereum is great at minimizing the amount of trust counterparties must have in each other, ultimately some trust is required, and we need to build systems which address the cases…

While no funds are at risk, we continue to monitor the bug as we migrate our contract to a new version with stronger security guarantees. — When we first began working on StandardBounties, it was because we saw people posting bounties with ETH and ERC20 tokens by writing brand new contracts from scratch for one-off use. …