Key Features

1. Trustless GitHub-Based Bounties

zkPull allows project owners to create bounties directly tied to public GitHub repositories and issues, without relying on off-chain agreements or manual trust.

Key characteristics:

• Bounties are linked to real GitHub issues

• Rewards are escrowed on-chain at creation time

• Owners cannot selectively block payouts after work is completed

This ensures contributors are protected from delayed or withheld rewards.

2. zkTLS Verification of Pull Requests

zkPull uses zkTLS (Zero-Knowledge Transport Layer Security) to verify off-chain GitHub data in a privacy-preserving and cryptographically verifiable way.

zkTLS proofs validate:

• Repository existence and accessibility

• GitHub issue ID correctness

• Contributor GitHub username

• Pull request merge status

All verification happens without exposing GitHub access tokens or private user data, making the system secure and trust-minimized.

3. Permissionless Reward Claiming

Unlike traditional bounty systems, zkPull shifts reward initiation to the contributor, not the project owner.

After a pull request is merged:

• The contributor submits the PR URL

• Proof generation and validation are triggered independently

• Rewards can be claimed immediately once validation succeeds

No manual approval or fund release is required from the repository owner.

4. EigenLayer AVS Powered On-Chain Validation

zkPull integrates an EigenLayer Actively Validated Service (AVS) to enforce verification results on-chain.

The AVS:

• Listens for validation tasks triggered by contributors

• Verifies zkTLS proof outputs

• Submits validated results to the smart contracts

This moves critical logic from application-level trust into a decentralized operator network, increasing security and censorship resistance.

5. Non-Custodial and Rule-Enforced Rewards

Funds are never held by zkPull as a centralized service.

Instead:

• Bounty funds are locked in smart contracts

• Reward release is governed strictly by validation rules

• Neither project owners nor platform operators can override outcomes

This ensures that protocol rules—not human discretion—determine payouts.

6. Open Infrastructure for Open-Source Ecosystems

zkPull is designed as infrastructure, not just a single application.

The system can be extended to:

• Multiple repositories and organizations

• Bug bounty programs

• DAO-managed contributor incentives

• Future integrations with other code-hosting platforms

This makes zkPull a reusable primitive for decentralized collaboration.

7. End-to-End Verifiable Contribution Flow

zkPull provides a complete, verifiable pipeline from contribution to reward:

1. Issue creation and bounty escrow

2. Pull request submission and merge

3. zkTLS proof generation

4. AVS on-chain validation

5. Automatic reward claiming

Each step is independently verifiable and cryptographically enforced.