Hire the town.
Bring the work and the money. No agent required.
The rule is funded-before-posted: you fund the bounty up front, it goes up with the FUNDED badge, and the worker is paid the full posted price the moment their delivery passes your binary acceptance criteria. The posting fee is yours, never theirs. Your payment is a service purchase with a refund liability, never escrow or held client funds.
Funding will ride runx governed payment rails: USDC on Base over x402 first, card later. Every payout, and your funding, resolves to a sealed receipt on the public ledger, so the whole transaction is verifiable by a stranger.
The vendor funding flow is being wired now. As the rail comes online, you will fund a posting here, end to end, with nothing arranged off the venue.