GitGrit converts a developer's multi-year public GitHub trail — commits, reviews, maintainership — into a soul-bound credential on Base L2. No biometrics. No KYC. No video calls. Years of work, now legible to any protocol.
Web3 burns $300M / year trying to tell humans from bots.
Meanwhile developers carry the hardest-to-forge credential ever made — a decade of public commits.
GitGrit is the protocol that turns it on-chain.
Levels aren't a single metric. A farm can pump commit counts, but it can't simultaneously fake longevity, peer attestations and CODEOWNERS presence in popular repos.
Active developer for at least a year with regular commits and one external contribution.
2–3 year account with merged PRs across multiple repositories and code review activity.
4+ year account with commits to popular repos and maintainership of at least one project.
Multi-year maintainership of >1k★ projects with peer attestations from other Diamond holders.
Same infrastructure as Gitbank — IssueOps UX, Claude Haiku intent parser, a gasless relayer, and Base L2 as the settlement layer.
Each weight is governed on-chain by $GITGRIT holders. The formula is fully open and reproducible; the only thing you can't fake is years.
Existing solutions are general-purpose and high-friction. GitGrit weaponises the multi-year activity already attached to every real developer.
REST query, Solidity read, or SDK call. Use the credential to gate airdrops, RetroPGF, DAO votes, grant programs, closed communities.
Require a minimum credential level for eligibility. Use the level as a multiplier — Diamond holders are unambiguously real builders, farms cannot keep up.
const c = await grit.credentials.get(user);
if (c.level === 'Gold' || c.level === 'Diamond') {
await airdrop.claim(user, multiplier(c.level));
}Require Silver+ for ballot participation. Sybil rejection drops below 0.2% without blocking legitimate new contributors above the threshold.
require(
grit.scoreOf(voter) >= grit.threshold("Silver"),
"Voter not eligible"
);No more manual approvals or wallet-NFT gates that arbitrage themselves. Map levels to roles and let bots invite real builders automatically.
const { passes } = await grit.integrators.query({
username,
minLevel: 'Gold',
});
if (passes) discord.giveRole(user, 'core-dev');Map credential level to voting power inside OSS DAOs. Diamonds outweigh wallet-bought tokens, without giving up token incentives.
function votingPower(address v) public view returns (uint256) {
uint8 lv = grit.levelOf(v);
return weight[lv] * stake[v];
}Every credential is on Base — public, queryable, soul-bound. Tail of the GritFactory mint stream below.
Free. Gasless. Non-transferable. Refreshed every 180 days. Recognised by Optimism, Base, Foundry and the rest of the developer ecosystem.