Brink is proud to announce the recipients of its first round of open source developer grants. After an open grant application process, the Brink board of directors has selected three developers who have demonstrated continued commitment to open source Bitcoin protocol development. Their work spans fundamental cryptographic engineering, application tooling, and base layer development and maintenance. Brink supports each of these developers to work full time on open source development. The three grant recipients are:
Jesse Posner
Jesse’s funding supports his work on adaptor signatures and an implementation of the FROST threshold signature scheme. These technologies bring additional security, privacy and functionality to multisignature and second layer protocols.
Grant made possible by very generous financial support from Nexo.
Alekos Filini
Alekos’s funding supports his work as maintainer of the Bitcoin Dev Kit, a
lightweight and modular collection of tools for use by wallets and other Bitcoin applications.
Grant made possible by very generous financial support from Kraken.
Hennadii Stepanov
Hennadii has been contributing code and review to Bitcoin Core since 2018. In that time he
has become one of the most prolific contributors to the project. Hennadii’s funding allows
him to work full time on Bitcoin Core development and review. Hennadii has previously
received support from CardCoins and Payvant.
We’ll be releasing blog posts over the next three weeks to highlight the work being done by Jesse, Alekos and Hennadii. Subscribe to our mailing list to receive all of our updates.
If you or your organization is interested in supporting open source Bitcoin development, feel free to email us, donate@brink.dev.
Developers interested in either the grant or fellowship programs can apply now for the next funding round.
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