It was not required for the PR to be merged upstream for the bounty to be awarded.

This was explicitly stated in a comment in the original issue that for some reason the Zig leadership decided to remove

(you've deleted your previous comment that I replied to)

But then why did you open an issue in the Zig repo and even marked it as "Bug", while in your repo you added the "Enhancement" label?

Just admit that you've communicated it poorly and move on.

Have you tried creating issues on the Zig repo?

External contributors can’t select the labels of an issue. New issues get automatically tagged.

In the Wasmer repo we can obviously choose the proper label just because we have the permission to do so