BITCOIN GRANTS TRACKER
Tracking Bitcoin grants to bring visibility and transparency for funders, developers and the community.
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Funder | Grantee | Information/URL | Source code | Product | Grant Date | Amount | Announcement | Grant Type | Description of Grant |
Bitcoin | 2021/08 | $80,000 | Development | Bitcoin Core development | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/08 | $37,500 | Development | Sjors will continue to maintain forkmonitor.info and adding some features, however his main focus will be Bitcoin Core. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | $100,000 | Development | Bitcoin Core development | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | $100,000 | Development | This Grant Will Allow Gleb To Focus On Implementing His Research Ideas And Gleb Is Also Planning On Helping With Some Of The Groundwork To Get Others’ Big Ideas Like AltNet And Utreexo Merged Into Bitcoin Core. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | Development | João will focus on testing, reviewing code, and on improving the Bitcoin Core user experience, especially on mobile. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | $100,000 | Education | Brink supports the Bitcoin developer community through funding, education, and mentoring. It's playing a crucial role in increasing the number of developers working on Bitcoin, while giving them the tools to be more effective. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | Development | Jarol plans to focus on providing support for open issues, reviewing and testing pull requests, as well as improving the Bitcoin Network's graphical user interface. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | $50,000 from HRF, others unknown | Development | Dhruv will push BIP324 forward and leverage it in the bitcoin-seeder to allow for authenticated seeds, increasing Bitcoin’s security. He will also work on increasing fuzz test coverage and automation. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | $50,000 | Development | Bridge funding for Abubakar, as he works to develop Bitcoin wallet software for the Nigerian context. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/06 | Development | Amiti’s specific focus will continue to be on improving the privacy, testing, and robustness of Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer layer. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2021/05 | $150,000 | Development | Continue Moving The Utreexo Project To Something A User Can Download And Use. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2021/05 | Development | Raj will contribute to BDK and other Rust ecosystem projects. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2021/03 | Development | Antoine will focus on security flaws in the Bitcoin protocol, with a primary focus on Lightning. He also focuses on building the Lightning Development Kit project, initiated by Square Crypto. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2021/03 | $118,500 | Development | Michael continues his work as Bitcoin Core contributor. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/12 | $150,000 | Education | Brink, a London-based, non-profit fellowship program that will sponsor and mentor exemplary Bitcoin developers. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/12 | $50,000 | Education | Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund aims to support Bitcoin developers working to enhance privacy on the Bitcoin Network and ensure that bitcoin is a tool for financial freedom. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/10 | Development | Riccardo will help build the Bitcoin Development Kit and work on Firma, his project to turn old phones and computers into air-gapped bitcoin wallet signers. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/09 | Development | Antoine will continue working on Bitcoin and Lightning Network following his residency Chaincode Labs. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/09 | $100,000 | Development | Renewal of Square Crypto's initial grant from last year for BTCPay Server to continue on it's mission to build best in class open source Bitcoin software. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/09 | Design | Daniel will bring structure to and help create the first version of a private key management section for the Bitcoin Design Guide. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/08 | Design | Johns will focus on the user flow of requesting, sending and receiving a payment on Bitcoin and Lightning Network. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/08 | $40,000 | Development | Calvin will continue researching and implementing Utreexo to find scalability solutions for Biotcoin's UTXO set. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/08 | >$100,000 | Development | Improving of Bitcoin’s test infrastructure and modularizing the code better segment it for developers to have a targeted focus. | |||||
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Bitcoin | 2020/08 | Development | Prototype an alternative payment channel construct to compare against LN & build a DLC prototype. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Design | Explore new visual, verbal, musical, and physical techniques to help people memorize their private keys without the need for a pen and paper. | ||||||
Judica(Jeremy Rubin) | Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/07 | $50,000 | Development | Complete critical infrastructure work on the mempool; support additional developers on this effort. | ||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Development | Create a secure and easy to use mobile cross platform (iOS/Android) Bitcoin wallet dev kit and example wallet app. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Design | Structure the Bitcoin design community & build "Getting Started" guide | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Development | Continue work on Bitcoin Core, including Schnorr and Taproot. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | Contribute to Bitcoin Core, specifically to p2p and privacy (Tor V3 support) | ||||||
Bitcoin, CoinSwap | 2020/06 | Development | CoinSwap Implementation for Massively Improving Bitcoin Privacy and Fungibility | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | Talaia is building a FOSS Lightning Network watchtower called The Eye of Satoshi | ||||||
Bitcoin, CoinSwap | 2020/06 | Development | CoinSwap Implementation for Massively Improving Bitcoin Privacy and Fungibility | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | LSP is a critical Lightning project that improves security within enterprise (HSMs), mobile phone secure elements and hardware wallets. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | $150,000 | Development | Increase test coverage for P2P layer to ensure a robust codebase & strong automated test coverage to allow devs to make changes with confidence. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | $100,000 | Development | Work on security and privacy of the core software, protocol analysis, advance Bitcoin research and bring attention to open problems. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $100,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $80,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
TBD, accepting applications | Bitcoin, Mining | 2020/05 | Development | Develop a decentralized standard for Bitcoin mining with Stratum V2 | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $100,000 | Development | Help accelerate the pace of Bitcoin development and highlight significance of open source dev communities like BTCPay. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | Development | Hennadii has been contributing in his spare time for over two years, more recently focusing on the build system, networking stack, and general peer review. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | Development | UX-focused Bitcoin developments | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | Development | Bitcoin Core development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | $100,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | $250,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2019/12 | Development | Contribute to Lightning and C-Lightning | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/12 | Development | Focus on Bitcoin Core dev process, improve docs for new core contributors, participate in concept review of major future version. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/11 | $30,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
Bitcoin | 2019/09 | $100,000 | Development | Create anything, as long as it’s free and open-source software that improves the security, scalability, privacy, user experience, or fungibility of bitcoin. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2019/07 | $50,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/05 | $250,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2018/10 | Development | |||||||
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Bitcoin | 2018/01 | Development | |||||||
Bitcoin | 2018/01 | Development |