After almost three years as a BitMEX open source development grantee, Calvin Kim is leaving the program. Calvin’s grant expired on 31 May 2023. Calvin has received a US$100,000 grant from the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), which was announced on 9 May 2023. Therefore the funding of Calvin’s research and development work on Bitcoin and...Read More
We are pleased to announce we’ve made a US$50,000 donation to Brink, a non-profit organisation that exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development. Brink is an organisation with a purpose, that aligns well with that our of BitMEX. In the past four years BitMEX has awarded close to US$2...Read More
BitMEX has extended Calvin Kim’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. Commenting on the grant, Calvin said: I’m extremely grateful for BitMEX’s continued support of my work. This past year, I was able to make much progress on exploring...Read More
BitMEX has extended Rene Pickhardt’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. Commenting on the grant, Rene said: I feel very grateful and honoured that the team at BitMEX understands the importance of fundamental research and continues to sponsor the...Read More
BitMEX has extended Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. We are very pleased with the work Chris is doing on Stratum V2 and in particular we are impressed with how he collaborates very well with open source developers...Read More
BitMEX has extended Sjors Provoost’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. As an author of the book Bitcoin: A Work in Progress (available on Amazon), Sjors formerly joined the BitMEX grant programme in August 2021, however prior to that...Read More
BitMEX has extended Gleb Naumenko’s Bitcoin developer grant until November 2022, a six month extension from the previous grant, which expires at the end of this month. We have financially supported Gleb since June 2020 and we are delighted to continue to support his work and research. Gleb is based in Ukraine and focuses his...Read More
Bitcoin core maintainer Michael Ford (AKA fanquake) has recently joined the Bitcoin development organisation Brink. Please see the announcement below: Brink is excited to announce a developer grant for @fanquake to join us in our London office. He will be continuing his maintainer role as well as other projects that he outlines here:https://t.co/orSueIwjKf — Brink...Read More
BitMEX is delighted to announce that the company will be providing funding to translate Bitcoin content into some key African languages. The company will provide funding of at least US$1,500 to Exonumia, a South African based non-profit organisation, dedicated to translating Bitcoin content. The organisation is run by Kgothatso Ngako (@440UrPp), who is based in...Read More
BitMEX is delighted to announce that we have awarded two new open source Bitcoin developer grants to Rene Pickhardt and Chris Coverdale. The grant program for 2021 is now closed. Rene and Chris have each been provided with an eight month grant, US$33,333 of committed funding each, until May 2022. This is equivalent to a...Read More
BitMEX is delighted to announce that we will be providing a part time Bitcoin developer grant to Sjors Provoost until the end of May 2022, a commitment of US$37,500. Sjors will join the other three Bitcoin developers currently financially supported by BitMEX: Michael Ford, Gleb Naumenko and Calvin Kim. Sjors has been a contributor to...Read More
BitMEX is delighted to announce that the Open Source Developer Grant programme will shortly be re-opened for new applicants. BitMEX started directly supporting Bitcoin developers back in July 2019 with a US$50,000 grant to Michael Ford. Since then we renewed Michael’s grant for another two years and we have supported other open source Bitcoin developers,...Read More
100x Group is delighted to announce our continued financial support to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford (AKA fanquake). We’re proud to announce a third grant to Michael, of US$100,000, bringing our total financial support to US$250,000 over three years. This grant was provided in conjunction with Independent Reserve, who will be providing Michael with an...Read More
100x Group are delighted to announce our continued financial support to open source developer Alex Hultman for his work on µWS. The project provides high-quality, lightweight, and scalable websocket support for NodeJS systems, allowing us to have a smaller server footprint to support our clients without sacrificing reliability. Alex introduced stream compression to the project...Read More
100x Group is delighted to announce that it is providing a US$20,000 grant to Gary Kramlich to develop the open source instant messaging client Pidgin. The Pidgin program allows users to log in and use multiple chat networks simultaneously. Gary started working on the project in 2003, before taking over as the lead developer in...Read More
We’re very pleased to announce that OKCoin and HDR Global Trading Limited (which owns and operates the BitMEX cryptocurrency trading platform) are each providing a US$75,000 grant, totaling US$150,000 over 12 months, to Bitcoin Core developer Amiti Uttarwar. The HDR element of the grant is based on the open-source template grant contract. As dedicated supporters...Read More
ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, New York-based Ethereum development studio studio, is awarding $175,000 to seven different open-source projects being developed on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Revealed on October 10, the software development projects include Lighthouse, an innovative Ethereum software client, Tellor, an oracle network for handling off-chain data, Alice, a mobile-based platform for developing decentralized applications...Read More
