📣 HRF gifted 1 billion sats from our Bitcoin Development Fund for our Q2 grant cycle

These focus on education, privacy, decentralized communications, and financial freedom tools for those in authoritarian regimes 🌐 🎉

🧵 on the projects 👇

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/hrf-grants-10-btc-to-worldwide-projects-advancing-bitcoin

🇰🇪 The Core promotes Bitcoin education in Kenya. Funding will facilitate meetups, course creation, and student rewards, fostering financial freedom in East Africa.

💻 Terry Yiu works on three Nostr-related projects: the Nostr SDK, Comingle, a conference app; and Damus, a decentralized social platform. All aim to strengthen freedom of speech and communication. This grant supports his work across these Nostr-related initiatives

🤖 Robo Sats—a Tor-only platform enabling peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange, especially helpful under authoritarian regimes, via the Lightning Network. Funding will enhance development, performance, and building an Android app

🇮🇳Bitshala’s Internship Program, empowering aspiring Bitcoin devs in India. Funding will support these internships and help Bitshala establish a hackerspace and community center in Bangalore

🌉Building Bridges to Bitcoin by Ideas Beyond Borders, empowering youth in the Middle East & North Africa with Bitcoin education in Arabic. Funds will support translation, publishing, and operational costs 💡

🤲 Open Sats supports open-source projects, education, and research in the Bitcoin ecosystem. HRF will support the Open Sats’ day-to-day operations budget 🌐

⚡️ Flash aims to connect Caribbean economies with Bitcoin. Funding will bolster its development, educational efforts, and adoption campaigns, bringing financial inclusion to historically marginalized regions. 🏝️

🇰🇷 Bitcoin Seoul, a conference that took place in May in Korea. Funds supported open-source initiatives and collaboration with North Korean defectors on human rights work

⛏️ Margot Paez’s research explores Bitcoin mining's impact on human rights and sovereignty. This funding will support her study on energy efficiency, decentralization, and civil liberties 📊

🔒⚡️ Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) enhances Lightning Network security by separating private keys. Funds will be used to hire a Rust developer to ensure user protection and accessibility

🇧🇷 Paulo Sacramento studies Brazil's digital payment systems for insights into Bitcoin adoption. This grant supports his research on open-source options for financial inclusion

🔐 Blockchain Commons develops FROST, improving private key security. Funding will support the organization of two FROST roundtable meetings among members of the FROST ecosystem ❄️

🌞 Summer of Bitcoin offers internships for students in Bitcoin development. This grant supports stipends, mentorship, and operations, empowering builders from over 50 countries, with a strong emphasis on authoritarian regimes 🌐

With these grants, HRF continues to push the boundaries of financial freedom, education, and human rights through Bitcoin. Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting initiatives.
Hopeful applicants can find the BDF application here: 

hrf.org/devfund