Brink Awards Three Bitcoin Development Grants
Brink, a nonprofit focused on financial support and mentorship for Bitcoin developers, has announced three new grant recipients.Brink, a nonprofit designed to offer financial support and mentorship to Bitcoin developers, has announced the recipients of its first round of open-source developer grants. It will be supporting Jesse Posner’s work on adaptor signatures and the FROST threshold signature scheme, Alekos Filini’s work on the Bitcoin Developer Kit and Hennadii Stepanov’s work on Bitcoin Core development and review.“After an open grant application process, the Brink board of directors....
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