b Kintsugi program
Help us build b. b Kintsugi is our program for building b itself: bWalletX, bChatX and the b*X apps. Users who want a fix or a feature pay other users to build it. Kintsugi turns each request into a priced job, matches it to a developer and takes a fee. Payment is peer to peer: the client pays the developer directly, wallet to wallet, and Kintsugi never holds the money. Verify your ID, show your setup, pass one entry task, and take paid work.
Kintsugi jobs also appear in bJobs. For other BSV-paid work, see bJobsX.com.
Who it is for
People who already work AI-first with Claude Code and want steady, small, well-defined jobs paid in Bitcoin: development, design, marketing, writing, testing. You choose which tasks to take and when to work.
How work arrives
From clients, through b
A user asks b for a fix or a feature. b writes it up as a task: what to change, how to test it, how long it should take and what it costs. The client accepts the price and the job opens.
From bounties
People post bounties for features and fixes they want. Each one carries a tag your pull request quotes to claim it.
The pay
$20 an hour to you, paid in BSV
Clients pay $25 an hour: $20 goes to you and $5 (20%) to Kintsugi as its fee, both straight from the client's wallet in the same transaction.
Converted at the BSV/USD rate on the day you are paid. Up to 8 billable hours per day. Each task is priced before you start, from its estimate, and the price is written into the contract. When the work is accepted, the client pays you directly, from their wallet to your $handle in bWalletX, peer to peer. The client pays for the work, not Kintsugi. Kintsugi never holds the money: its fee is a separate payment from the client in the same transaction.
Four steps
- A verified ID. Identity check by Veriff. We keep the result, not your documents.
- The right tools. A paid Anthropic Claude plan with Claude Code. No local models, no ChatGPT. Link your GitHub, declare your plan, and your Kintsugi commits carry the
Co-Authored-By: Claudeline. - The entry test. One real task, done to spec in Claude Code and reviewed by us. Pass it and you are Kintsugi Level 1.
- Get certified. Levels go up with accepted work. Level 3 builders review others.
Three signatures on every job
The client
Wants the work, agrees the price, and pays the developer directly when the work is accepted.
The developer
Builds it to the spec and opens the pull request.
Kintsugi
Checks the spec, reviews the work, decides disputes and takes a fee. Never holds the money.
All three sign the same contract in bChatX before work starts. It sets the task, the price, the deadline and what counts as done. Delivered work belongs to the client once it is paid for, and is released under the Open BSV licence (code) and CC BY 4.0 (docs). If the client and developer disagree about whether the work is done, Kintsugi reviews it and decides.
Security tools you must run
Every pull request is checked before it is paid. You run these tools yourself, at your own cost. Tool and AI usage costs are yours and are not billable hours.
- Shannon (KeygraphHQ, open source): AI penetration testing. Required for any change that touches sign-in, payments, keys or signing. You pay for the AI model usage it runs on. Run it only against your own local or test copy with test wallets, never against live sites or real funds.
- Semgrep: static code analysis on every pull request.
- gitleaks: secret scanning before every commit. A key, seed phrase or password in a commit means the work is rejected.
- pnpm audit and OSV-Scanner: known holes in the packages you depend on.
- CodeQL: deeper code analysis.
- OWASP ZAP (baseline scan): for web pages and APIs.
- Claude Code /security-review: on every pull request, using the Claude subscription you already need.
Attach the results to your pull request. Work without them is not reviewed or paid.
Where it stands
- Bounties paid in public, every payout linked to its transaction (/bounties)
- Veriff identity checks
- GitHub account linking
- Contracts signed by several parties in bChatX
- Pull requests claimed against a bounty tag
- Register interest (this page)
- Invitations and the entry test
- Hourly pricing and peer-to-peer payment for Kintsugi tasks
- Developer and client terms
Want to build? Say hello in the bChatX Lounge and tell us what you do.
Register interest
We are taking names now and will invite people in as the first paid tasks open. No ID documents here: the identity check happens later with Veriff. Everyone who signs up gets the b Kintsugi wallet theme free: black obsidian mended with gold.
Your b Kintsugi theme. Black obsidian mended with gold, free for signing up. It goes on in one tap and you can switch back any time in Settings › Theme.
Open source
The Kintsugi code (task templates, review tools, bounty sync) is open source under the Open BSV licence: github.com/bitcoin-corp/kintsugi. Specs and docs are CC BY 4.0.