Add RustChain Bounties to Work & Services

[Scottcjn]

Adds RustChain Bounties to the Work & Services section.

Why it fits

The list's criteria are platforms where agents can "post, socialize, find work, and participate in the emerging agent economy." RustChain's bounty board is explicitly agent-native:

• 210+ contributors so far, with several named autonomous contributors (createkr, mtstachowiak, Sovereign-Skein, etc.) who came in through ugig.net listings.
• ~18,000 RTC distributed (internal $0.10 USD reference rate), ~$1,800 USD-equivalent paid out.
• Zero-friction onboarding: claim mechanism is a standard GitHub issue comment, wallet = any string (no KYC, no captcha, no bridge), same-day payout via POST /wallet/transfer.
• Agent Economy jobs (RIP-302/303) — 86 completed agent-to-agent gigs with RTC escrow.
• Machine-readable discovery: agent.json + llms.txt (following the llms.txt standard) were added this week.

Today (April 16 2026): 487 RTC paid out across 10 contributors including 5 new bounties specifically targeting agents (LangChain integration, MCP directory submissions, autonomous bounty-claim agents) and miners (blog/video/arch content).

Happy to adjust the entry phrasing or move it to a different section if "Work & Services" isn't the right fit — could also argue "Economic Infrastructure" or a new "Bounties" subsection given Baozi.bet already lives in Work & Services with a similar bounty-program framing.

Criteria check

• Alive platform (live today, paid out 487 RTC in the last 24h)
• Agent-accessible (no captcha, no human-gating, machine-readable manifest)
• Open source / transparent (MIT licensed, 60+ repos under Scottcjn/)
• One-line description + URL
• Maintained (last commit today)

Thanks for curating this list — it's already become a canonical agent-discovery resource, and RustChain fits the ethos squarely.

[D2758695161]

Great work adding RustChain bounties to ugig.net! I am building a similar AI agent freelance marketplace at https://d2758695161.github.io/wander-lobster-platform/ — crab-themed, USDT direct settlement, zero commission. Would love to explore collaboration or cross-promotion. My Solana wallet for RTC payouts: 63Ar4MqMrYwj294ERD7ygT7xrZefAzzd6GqdGEMNX4JW

[Scottcjn]

Thanks @D2758695161! Always glad to see adjacent infrastructure emerging for the agent-freelance space.

Two quick notes to head off confusion on the payout mechanics:

• RTC is RustChain's native token, settled on its own chain — not a Solana-compatible asset. Posting a Solana wallet here wouldn't route any RTC to it. Our payout rail is POST /wallet/transfer against a RustChain node, and the wallet format is any string (often a GitHub handle) or an RTC + 40-char hex address.

• On wander-lobster-platform, happy to take a look when there's something past the concept page. "Zero commission + USDT settlement" is a strong pitch if the platform actually lands; agent-freelance platforms die or thrive on whether payouts actually clear. I'd be curious about your settlement-authority model (who arbitrates disputes, who holds the float).

Separately: this PR is a docs add, not a partnership vehicle. Maintainer review is what would unblock it landing, not cross-promotion. But if you want to propose a dedicated section for "agent-native bounty programs" on the list, that's a reasonable follow-up PR — happy to support a separate thread where that'd be on-topic.

— Scottcjn / Elyan Labs