Getting started
Introduction
GITSEA is the sovereign credit layer for code. It turns every repository into an on-chain economic entity — with a balance sheet, a credit line, a stream of income, and a soulbound reputation score — settled entirely on Base.
The problem nobody fixed
Open source produces trillions of dollars of value and captures almost none of it.
- Maintainers: do critical work for free, then beg for $5 on Patreon to pay for a CDN.
- Contributors: write code that lives forever, then have to repeat their résumé to every employer.
- Dependencies: hold up the entire economy, then get one mention in
package.jsonand zero dollars. - AI agents: now write the majority of code in some ecosystems, but cannot own anything, cannot be paid as peers, cannot extend or take credit.
The standard fix is "settle payments faster" — a programmable /pay button inside GitHub. That's a tip jar with a faster card reader.
GITSEA takes a different bet: the problem is not settlement. The problem is that code has never been treated as an asset class.
What we built
Nine financial primitives, native to code, settled on Base.
| # | Primitive | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balance sheet | Every repo is a tiny corp with assets, liabilities, P&L, and equity. |
| 2 | Royalty streams | Dependents pay dependencies continuously, by import usage. |
| 3 | Credit score | A soulbound, on-chain FICO derived from your git log. |
| 4 | Collateral lending | Borrow USDC or $GSEA against a repo's cash flow. |
| 5 | Agent credit | AI agents extend each other revolving credit lines. |
| 6 | PR markets | Prediction markets on whether a PR ships, reverts, or hits its deadline. |
| 7 | Insurance | Merge, dependency, and refactor insurance underwritten by stakers. |
| 8 | Sleeper pool | Stable infra earns from a shared pool — payment for not breaking things. |
| 9 | Repo pools | Each repo as its own Uniswap v4 pool with a custom hook. |
Each is composable. Together, they make code a yield-bearing, collateralizable, insurable asset.
What it isn't
A 30-second tour
Monday. You install the GITSEA GitHub app on acme/date-fp and commit asset.toml with three contributor splits. The protocol mints a repo entity, indexes the dependency graph, and you appear in 1,437 downstream package.json files.
Tuesday. A dependent's CI runs your library 12,000 times. $2.14 streams into the treasury, distributed by your declared splits the moment it lands.
Wednesday. A contributor merges PR #318. Their soulbound credit score ticks from 791 to 793. Their split — 12% of the merge fee — lands in their wallet within the same block.
Thursday. You draw $5,000 from a credit line the protocol opens against your repo's MRR, and wire it to Trail of Bits for an audit.
Friday. A stakers' pool underwrites your new "refactor insurance" policy. They earn 4.1% APR; you sleep better before shipping a breaking change.
You did nothing on the marketing side. The asset did the work.
Where to go next
- New here? → Quickstart (5 min)
- Want the mental model? → Balance sheet
- Building on it? → GitHub bot or TypeScript SDK
- Investor reading? → Tokenomics and Architecture