This page is inspired by @Polylunar_’s fantastic resource, Bitcoin Grants Tracker.
This page is an attempt to track all the Bitcoin grants. This is a work in progress. Please send me details if I am missing a grant.
Grants
| Grant Date |
Grantor |
Grantee |
Project Information |
GitHub/Source Code |
Contribution |
Amount |
| 2020/09 |
John Pfeffer |
Antoine Riard |
Why we may fail lightning |
ariard |
Bitcoin and Lightning development |
- |
| 2020/08 |
Square Crypto |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin payments processing |
$100,000 |
| 2020/08 |
Square Crypto |
Daniel Nordh |
Bitcoin Design Guide |
danielnordh |
UX improvements for Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/08 |
Square Crypto |
Johns Beharry |
Consistent Push & Pull Payments on and off-chain |
peakshift |
account-identification, payment-requests, invoices, transactions, psbt |
- |
| 2020/08 |
BitMEX |
Calvin Kim |
Utreexo |
kcalvinalvin |
Accumulator for Bitcoin UTXO set |
$40,000 |
| 2020/08 |
OKCoin |
Marco Falke |
Bitcoin Core |
MarcoFalke |
Bitcoin testing framework |
+/- $100,000 |
| 2020/08 |
Human Rights Foundation |
openoms |
JoinInbox |
openoms |
Bitcoin Market GUI |
1 BTC |
| 2020/08 |
Human Rights Foundation |
Fontaine |
Fully Noded |
Fonta1n3 |
Bitcoin Core Client for iOS |
1 BTC |
| 2020/08 |
Human Rights Foundation |
Evan Kaloudis |
Zeus |
kaloudis |
Lightning Node Client |
1 BTC |
| 2020/08 |
Square Crypto |
Lloyd Fournier |
secp256kFUN! |
LLFourn |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/07 |
Square Crypto |
Thorbjoern Koenig |
A Human-first angle on Private Key Management |
Design and UX |
Bitcoin UX |
- |
| 2020/07 |
BitMEX |
Jeremy Rubin |
BIP 119 |
jeremyrubin |
Bitcoin |
$50,000 |
| 2020/07 |
Paradigm |
Anthony Towns |
Bitcoin |
ajtowns |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/07 |
Square Crypto |
Steve Myers |
Development of Bitcoin Developer Kit (BDK) |
BitcoinDevKit |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/07 |
Square Crypto |
Christoph Ono |
|
GBKS |
Bitcoin Design |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Square Crypto |
Vasil Dimov |
P2P and Privacy on Bitcoin |
vasild |
Bitcoin Core and LN |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Square Crypto |
Chris Belcher |
CoinSwap |
chris-belcher |
Bitcoin, CoinSwap |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Square Crypto |
Sergi Delgado |
Talaia Labs - Lightning Watchtowers |
talaia-labs |
Bitcoin, Lightning |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Human Rights Foundation |
Chris Belcher |
CoinSwap |
chris-belcher |
Bitcoin, CoinSwap |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Kraken |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/06 |
Square Crypto |
Ken Sedgwick |
Lightning Signer |
Lightning Signer |
Bitcoin, Lightning |
- |
| 2020/06 |
OKCoin & BitMEX |
Amiti Uttarwar |
|
amitiuttarwar |
Bitcoin |
$150,000 |
| 2020/06 |
BitMEX |
Gleb Naumenko |
BIP 330 |
naumenkogs |
Bitcoin |
$100,000 |
| 2020/05 |
OKCoin |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
$100,000 |
| 2020/05 |
BTSE |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
$80,000 |
| 2020/05 |
OKCoin |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
$100,000 |
| 2020/03 |
Square Crypto |
Tankred Hase |
Bitcoin Core |
tanx |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/03 |
Square Crypto |
Jon Atack |
Bitcoin Core |
jonatack |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2020/03 |
BitMEX |
Michael Ford |
|
fanquake |
Bitcoin Core |
$100,000 |
| 2020/03 |
BitMEX |
MIT Digital Currency Initiative |
The Digital Currency Initiative is a research community at the MIT Media Lab focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. |
mit-dci |
Bitcoin |
$250,000 |
| 2019/12 |
Square Crypto |
ZmnSCPxj |
Lightning |
ZmnSCPxj |
Bitcoin, Lightning |
- |
| 2019/12 |
OKCoin |
Fabian Jahr |
|
fjahr |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2019/11 |
Digital Garage Inc. |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
$30,000 |
| 2019/09 |
Square Crypto |
BTCPay Server |
BTCPay Server |
btcpayserver |
Bitcoin |
$100,000 |
| 2019/07 |
BitMEX |
Michael Ford |
|
fanquake |
Bitcoin |
$60,000 |
| 2019/05 |
BitMEX |
MIT Digital Currency Initiative |
The Digital Currency Initiative is a research community at the MIT Media Lab focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. |
mit-dci |
Bitcoin |
$250,000 |
| 2018/12 |
Hardcore Fund |
Ben Woosley |
Bitcoin Core |
Empact |
Bitcoin |
- |
| 2018/10 |
Hardcore Fund |
Luke Dash Jr. |
Bitcoin Core |
luke-jr |
Bitcoin |
- |
