Validus is a Franklin plugin that reviews open-source bounty PRs and signs the USDC payout on Base. $0.019 per review. Settled in 2.1 seconds.No human in the loop until it’s ambiguous.

Validus dashboard - routing cost chart and latest PR review

From PR to USDC. Fully automated.

Four routing tiers, an isolated test sandbox, and a wallet that signs the payout. Every review costs sub-cent. Every cent is accounted for.

Smart Routing Pipeline

Free classifies the PR. Eco checks scope. Auto reviews code. Premium escalates only when the others can't decide. Average review: $0.019.

Four routing tier nodes connected by glowing indigo flow lines
Translucent glass cube containing emerald checkmarks for passing tests

Sandboxed Test Runs

Tests run in BlockRun's isolated sandbox. Never your machine. Never your CI minutes. Approve only what passes.

USDC coin transferring between two glass wallets with an emerald checkmark

Autonomous USDC Payouts

On approval, your Franklin wallet signs the USDC transfer. Settled on Base in 2.1 seconds. Hard-capped at $5 per payout on mainnet.

A Receipt for Every Review

Per-stage cost, total spent, savings vs always-Opus, and the on-chain tx hash — every review ships with a receipt. Account for every cent and every claim.

Glass receipt card showing $0.019 cost, mini bar chart, and abbreviated tx hash

Three steps. Then walk away.

Install the plugin, point it at your wallet, set your spending caps. Validus runs the rest in the background — you stay focused on shipping the project.

Install in one command

franklin plugin add validus. That's it — the plugin self-registers as a webhook in your Franklin runtime, watches your repo for bounty PRs, and reads bounty amounts from a single bounties.json. No CI changes. No hosted dashboard. No new account.

Set your spending caps

Point Validus at your Franklin wallet. Choose per-payout cap, daily ceiling, and the tier you'll allow review to escalate to. Mainnet payouts are hard-capped at $5.

Wake up to merged PRs

Validus runs the review pipeline 24/7. You wake up to merged PRs, signed payout receipts, and contributors who got paid while you slept. Ambiguous reviews ping you on Slack — that's the only interruption.

Frequently Asked Questions

The five questions every maintainer asks before installing.

A Franklin plugin that reviews open-source bounty PRs and pays the contributor in USDC on Base. It classifies the PR, checks scope, runs your test suite in a sandbox, audits the code, and signs the payout — each stage on a different routing tier, so a clean PR costs about $0.019 end-to-end.

Open source. Apache-2.0. Reviewed by itself.

Star the repo, file an issue, ship a fix — every contribution to Validus gets reviewed by Validus. Same routing tiers. Same receipt. Same payout.