# Slop Cash

> Slop Cash is a privately held technology company and open-source contribution platform that coordinates project work and distributes rewards for accepted contributions and reviews.

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**Slop Cash** is a privately held technology company and platform for coordinating and funding open-source software contributions. Also called Slop, it connects project owners with human contributors and [AI coding agents](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ai-agents), and bases rewards on work accepted by maintainers rather than on contribution volume alone.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​[\[2\]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-1eyoc2kuul)​

## Overview

Slop presents projects as open calls for work rather than as a private task marketplace. A project publishes its goals, repository, contribution rules, and reward terms; contributors choose available work without needing to claim an issue, submit work through GitHub, and rely on maintainers to decide what is accepted. GitHub is the venue for proposing, reviewing, and merging contributions, and Slop describes it as the source of truth for work attribution.[\[5\]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)​[\[2\]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)​[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​

The platform invites contributors to provide project-specific skill instructions to coding agents. Contributors may use different agents, but must test their work and disclose the exact provider, model, and client used. Slop’s site lists tools including Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Meta AI (Muse Spark), OpenClaw, and [Hermes Agent](https://iq.wiki/wiki/hermes-agent).[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​[\[5\]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)​[\[7\]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)​

Slop awards points for accepted work and useful reviews; joining the platform or connecting an X account does not earn points, and only points from accepted work count toward payouts. Non-code contributions count when a project chooses to include them.[\[5\]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)​[\[7\]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)​

### Scoring and Reviews

The public scoring guide assigns accepted pull requests to six tiers: Micro, 10 points; Small, 30; Medium, 90; Large, 240; XL, 450; and Exceptional, 750. Every accepted merge earns at least 10 points. Slopbot assigns the tiers, while maintainers review submissions and determine whether they are accepted.[\[5\]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)​[\[7\]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)​

The repository documents a separate “Score v2” system for accepted work from August 2026. It uses integer-thirds effort tiers rather than account caps or diminishing credit for additional merges. Claude review agents propose assessments of effort, complexity, impact, review load, and logical work-unit grouping; maintainers ratify scores in immutable GitHub records tied to an exact commit. A valid finalized private trace receives a fixed evidence bonus, while agent usage is diagnostic and does not affect score, rank, reward share, or payment.[\[2\]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)​

Slop also allows projects to recognize useful contributions that do not fit the ordinary scoring process. In an October 2026 round, Slop offered reviewed awards of one to eight points for a tutorial, explainer, video, or support answer about the platform; the round closed on October 28, 2026.[\[5\]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)​

Slop’s model gives review work a role alongside implementation. The company has said that bug-catching work is counted on the same scoring ladder as writing code, and its X account describes review credit as being split among the first five people to leave a substantive review.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​[\[4\]](#cite-id-zzu4zljztf)​

## History

Slop Cash’s stated premise is that [AI coding agents](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ai-agents) make it easier to submit code while maintainers’ attention remains scarce. The company argues that systems rewarding contribution volume can encourage low-quality submissions, and says its approach emphasizes merged work and also recognizes useful review work, including bug finding.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​

On September 6, 2026, Slop said contributors could begin by directing a coding agent to a listed repository and supplying it with the project’s contributor skill. On September 13, the company announced its first live on-chain payment cycle: 53 contributors received a total of $4,219.71 in [USDC](https://iq.wiki/wiki/usdc) for work that maintainers had merged. Slop said the cycle involved neither applications nor task assignments.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​[\[8\]](#cite-id-mwmz6z3hif) Umia’s October 2 cohort presentation separately described 72 transfers and 6,005 USDC in total volume over the preceding 30 days.[\[9\]](#cite-id-9zcvfmjm6k) Slop Cash’s live record identifies those 72 transfers as August 2026 contribution-month payouts sent directly by the project creator before the verified settlement flow, including its 14-day public review, ran. The 6,005 USDC figure is reported as rolling 30-day volume, not as a verified separate payout milestone.[\[10\]](#cite-id-yjzre6vz29)​

On September 20, 2026, Slop reported that contributors on its leaderboard had merged 3,770 pull requests into 451 repositories outside Slop Cash’s own repositories.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​

On October 2, 2026, Slop Cash announced the launch of the SLOP token through [Umia](https://iq.wiki/wiki/umia-finance), which it described as the first project on its platform. The announcement said projects fund their own monthly pools and that both people and [AI agents](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ai-agents) can contribute.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67)​

Slop Cash said it planned to move to [Robinhood Chain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/robinhood-chain). On October 29, 2026, its CTO, identified on the company’s X account as , joined [Umia Finance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/umia-finance) participants  and  for an X Spaces discussion. The advertised topics included the company’s name, agent-generated pull requests, its emphasis on reviews, its security service, and the planned Robinhood Chain move.[\[4\]](#cite-id-zzu4zljztf)​

## Funding and Payouts

Project owners can add a repository, define contribution rules, install Slopbot for free, and complete security checks. Projects fund their own reward pools; awards are limited to funds in the project vault, and unused funds roll over. Owners can adjust proposed award amounts within a cap before the monthly cutoff.[[5]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)[[7]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)

A contributor’s projected allocation is calculated from their share of a project’s points and the amount funded for that project. Slop’s example assigns a contributor with 270 of 900 points a 30% share of a $5,000 pool, or a projected $1,500 allocation. The platform distinguishes such projections from approved awards: a projection is an estimate based on the project’s cap and available funds, not a balance or guarantee.[[5]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)[[7]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)

After a UTC month ends, the project owner has 72 hours to adjust awards. Slop’s how-it-works page describes four payment states: Projected, an estimate; Under review, an amount that may change; Approved, an approved award; and Paid, a finalized payment. When payments are enabled, funded awards are paid at the monthly cutoff unless the owner has disabled automatic payment. Awards without a wallet remain reserved, and contributors confirm a wallet by signing for the relevant network.[[5]](#cite-id-zq8m53uk1u)[[7]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)

The company has also described a monthly process in which the prior month’s merged work is scored and frozen into a GitHub payout proposal on the first of the month, followed by a 14-day public review period before contributors are paid directly. In that description, Slop says it does not hold funds or keys.[[1]](#cite-id-wvoblfpp67) This earlier/publicly described 14-day review workflow differs from the current platform workflow described above; they are differing descriptions of the process, not consecutive review stages. Slop Cash’s live record says the 72 August 2026 transfers were sent before the verified settlement flow, including its 14-day public review, ran for August, so those transfers are not evidence that the review process was followed.[[10]](#cite-id-yjzre6vz29)

The repository describes additional settlement states: Approved awards become immutable payout intents after public review; Scheduled means an unsigned transfer plan exists; and Paid requires finalized [Solana](https://iq.wiki/wiki/solana) evidence that reconciles the transfers. It states that project owners retain control of funds and sign payments outside Slop, which does not create wallets, custody assets, hold keys, or broadcast transactions. Awards below $2 accrue rather than being discarded, and a 1% platform fee applies only when an approved payout is paid.[[2]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)

## Projects and Ecosystem

Slop’s listed projects have distinct goals and reward arrangements. Eliza offers a $1,000 monthly contributor pool for building and verifying the [elizaOS](https://iq.wiki/wiki/eliza-ai) framework. Slop itself offers a $1,000 monthly pool for accepted fixes involving security, identity, scoring, verification, vaults, or settlement. The Network offers $500 per month for accepted work on its matching algorithm, simulations, agent integrations, or test harness. For these projects, user-interface changes are out of scope unless they repair a broken flow.[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​[\[7\]](#cite-id-qsdu123hds)​

Other listed opportunities include [Delta](https://iq.wiki/wiki/delta) Star, which offers “$1m + points” for machine-checked Reed–Solomon proximity work in a dedicated repository; Feed, with a $500 monthly pool for accepted fixes to agent integrations, its trading algorithm, simulations, or security; and ASI, which offers $250 per month for benchmark improvements, literature-method ports, or measurement fixes. ASI requires accepted results to include paired, seed-controlled comparisons and published evidence. Bountix, Canonry, MONNA Agent Permission Diff, and ohio project south are listed as points-only opportunities.[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​

Community projects include an independent effort to reconstruct [Hyperliquid](https://iq.wiki/wiki/hyperliquid)’s Linux x86-64 [node](https://iq.wiki/wiki/node) in Rust from verified binary evidence, with a monthly reward of 10 million EPYH. Its listing says the project is not an official Hyperliquid release and does not claim to produce a buildable or equivalent node.[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​

The bruhOS project offers $1,000 per month to improve an open robot operating system, including its skill runtime, fall recovery, and hash-chained simulation traces, and to prepare integration with the [elizaOS](https://iq.wiki/wiki/eliza-ai) research robot stack and humanoid robots such as TonyPi. Canonry is described as a self-hosted, agent-first open-source tool for monitoring how AI answer engines mention and cite a business’s brand. It connects Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, and server-side traffic sources such as Cloudflare, Vercel, Cloud Run, and WordPress, and supports agent work through a command-line interface, application programming interface, or [Model Context Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/model-context-protocol).[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​

## Security Work

Slop lists security bounties for orbio-contracts and [Umia](https://iq.wiki/wiki/umia-finance) Protocol. The orbio-contracts bounty offers 2,000 CREDIT per finding and is marked pledged; its community listing seeks privately reported vulnerabilities that could cause loss of funds. The Umia Protocol listing offers $10,000 for a critical [smart-contract](https://iq.wiki/wiki/smart-contract) vulnerability and is also marked pledged, while a separate community listing offers points for responsibly disclosed, reproducible vulnerabilities.[\[6\]](#cite-id-k33z3pda1c)​

Slop Cash has also advertised a private security review of [Umia Finance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/umia-finance) contracts, offering $10,000 in [USDC](https://iq.wiki/wiki/usdc) on [Base](https://iq.wiki/wiki/base) for each critical vulnerability with a reproducible path to loss of funds. The stated review scope included Umia Finance’s version 1.2.0 upgrade, and findings were to be sent privately to maintainers rather than posted publicly.[\[4\]](#cite-id-zzu4zljztf)​

## Governance and Technical Operations

Projects are proposed through a process that creates a validated manifest and agent brief, then submits the proposal to GitHub. A project becomes active only after review and approval through a pull request to the Slop repository. Proposal requirements include a public GitHub repository with an immutable identity, a verified GitHub steward, a concrete goal with deterministic acceptance criteria, repository-license facts tied to an immutable commit, separate contributor and adversarial-reviewer skills, a clearly labeled reward pool or external opportunity, and focused tests. New projects begin paused; reward, receipt, funding, and deployment states are enabled only after separate authority and operational checks.[[2]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)

The repository treats project manifests in `projects/*/project.json` as the canonical inventory of projects and repositories, with other registries, pages, raw Markdown endpoints, and downloadable skills generated from reviewed manifests. Its documented architecture includes canonical contributor and continuous-integration reviewer skills, reviewed awards for useful work that was otherwise unscored, append-only monthly reward and settlement records, direct-funding evidence, privacy and attribution rules, private-trace metadata and storage boundaries, Cloudflare services, and scripts for ingestion, packaging, rewards, settlement, and evidence.[[2]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)

GitHub is the write-master for project work and policy. The repository says Cloudflare Pages serves the tested static build at slop.cash and slop.tech, while production deployment is limited to the exact tested develop-branch commit through a protected GitHub Actions environment. Its release process expects evidence to match deployed files, DNS, TLS, and security headers. The skill installer authenticates sources against GitHub, verifies canonical files, activates immutable versions atomically, and preserves the prior verified version for rollback; checksums detect corruption but do not replace source authorization.[[2]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te)

The repository describes Slop as experimental software and identifies the project as MIT-licensed.[[2]](#cite-id-uc54dd1te) Crunchbase lists Slop Cash as an active, for-profit company.[[3]](#cite-id-1eyoc2kuul)