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Transaction Science 70ecd6caa0 Initial import — three open standards under one shelf 
Transaction Science open standards monorepo. Each subdirectory is a
self-contained reference protocol with its own README and licence.

- openpay/    Apache-2.0  payment-acceptance stack (Rust, 26 crates)
- smart-byte/ CC-BY-4.0   content-addressed value carrier (spec)
- eoc/        CC-BY-4.0   energy-optimised compute (spec)

The wire format and the right to fork are public. The optional hosted
services are the offer; the protocols are not.
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Contributing to OpenPay

OpenPay is a reference payment-acceptance stack. Contributions are welcome — especially the kinds listed below. Before you open a PR, please read this short guide.

What's in scope

The contributions that move the needle most right now:

  • Driver implementations. New PSP drivers for CardAcquirer, new A2A rail drivers for A2aAcquirer, new crypto gateways for CryptoGateway. The op-driver-sdk conformance harness will tell you whether your driver behaves before you ship it.
  • Backend implementations of any of the store traits (LedgerStore, WebhookStore, ReconciliationStore, RefundStore, DisputeStore, SettlementStore, SubscriptionStore, IdempotencyStore) against your persistence layer of choice. The default Graph*Store impls persist to a single embedded Minigraf .graph file; a Postgres / TigerBeetle / SurrealDB / Spanner backend would be a useful contribution.
  • Real HttpTransport and EvmSigner impls that close gaps the reference workspace leaves to operators on purpose (Fireblocks, AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Tessera, Tangem).
  • Test vectors for ISO 20022 messages, EMV tags, reconciliation scenarios, and FX rounding edge cases.
  • Platform glue for the FFI bridges — a Swift package, an Android AAR, an npm package wrapping the wasm output.
  • Documentation fixes. If something in the per-phase docs in docs/ is wrong or stale, a PR that fixes it is appreciated.

What's out of scope

  • Adding card-network certification claims to the README. The architecture admits a certified deployment; the workspace itself isn't one.
  • Adding new opinion-heavy defaults to the orchestrator or router that aren't strictly necessary. The stack is a reference — operators pick policy.
  • Anything that grows the dependency surface significantly in default-feature builds. The crate boundaries are deliberate; opinionated additions belong behind a feature flag or in a downstream crate.

Development workflow

  1. Fork + branch. Branch off main.
  2. Match the existing style. No new opinions about formatting; the codebase already follows rustfmt defaults and the lints declared in each crate's lib.rs (clippy::pedantic in most places). Run cargo fmt --all before pushing.
  3. Tests must pass. cargo test --workspace plus any feature-gated tests for the area you touched. CI runs the matrix on every PR.
  4. Clippy must be clean. cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings. Feature flags you change need the per-feature lint pass too — CI runs both.
  5. Zero new build warnings. The workspace has a strict zero-warnings policy.

PR checklist

  • cargo fmt --all clean.
  • cargo test --workspace green.
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
  • If you touched a feature-gated module: the per-feature cargo test and cargo clippy are also clean.
  • If you added a new public type, function, or trait: it has a /// doc comment that explains the contract (not just what the code already says).
  • If you added a domain workflow: there's an end-to-end test that exercises the happy path through HTTP if applicable.
  • No new dependencies in default-feature builds without justification in the PR description.
  • Commit messages are imperative and informative. Squash-merging is fine; please keep the final commit message useful.

Phase documentation

Each substantial change should add or amend the relevant docs/NN-name-progress.md file with:

  • What shipped (a small table).
  • Honest concerns carried forward (what we deliberately didn't do, and why).
  • A workspace-status snapshot (cargo test --workspace, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets).

Look at any of the docs/2*-*-progress.md files for the shape.

Reporting issues

Open a GitHub issue with:

  • The crate(s) affected.
  • The shortest reproducing snippet you can.
  • What you expected vs. what happened.
  • The output of cargo test --workspace 2>&1 | tail -50 if your issue is a test failure.

Security-sensitive issues should go to the email listed on the repository's profile, not the public issue tracker.

License

By contributing, you agree your contribution is licensed under Apache-2.0, the same as the rest of the project.