In January 2025, Xiaolong Li established the foundational infrastructure for the Open-Finance-Lab/FinLLM-Leaderboard repository by bootstrapping the project with an MIT license and comprehensive README documentation. He focused on repository governance and onboarding readiness, creating clear terms of use and a structured environment to support future open-source collaboration. Using Git for version control and Markdown for documentation, Xiaolong formalized the repository’s structure to enable scalable development and rapid contributor onboarding. While the work was limited to initial setup without feature depth or bug fixes, it provided a compliant, well-documented baseline essential for secure and efficient project growth.