Sia Bounties are here! Today marks the start of an ongoing series of bounties, each between $1k and $10k, paid and denominated in Siacoin. We will be posting our first bounty in the next hour on Github under the “bounty” label.

As the core team, our primary focus is building the Sia core software, but we know there are countless opportunities to integrate Sia as a backend storage solution for existing apps. As we improve Sia and add new features, these integrations will become even more important. Sia Bounties will allow us to reward our contributors for building integrations between Sia and popular apps and platforms.

Where will the funding come from? After watching the burst of activity that followed the recent and successful Blockstack-Sia bounty, a group of Sia enthusiasts took note, quietly organized a “donor’s club,” and brought us a proposal for Sia Bounties (the group wishes to remain anonymous).

We would like to recognize them for their generosity, and look forward to growing and rewarding our amazing developer community from their ongoing donations. If any of you reading this would like to donate 100k SC or more per quarter, we will put you in touch with the the donor group.

As money’s involved, we thought it a good idea to lay out some basic information and ground rules for bounties: