About the Grants Program

Bitcoin’s long-term success requires a sustainable funding model for open source developers to maintain and extend the protocol, test and review code changes, and fix critical bugs in the software. Brink was founded to support Bitcoin development and Bitcoin open source developers. Our grant program is central to that mission.

The grant program awards year-long grants to established Bitcoin protocol developers to work full time on open source Bitcoin projects. Our primary focus is on the security and stability of the base protocol, but we will also fund research and development on extending functionality, scalability and usability of Bitcoin and related projects, including Lightning and other layer two technologies.

About you

The grant program is open to developers anywhere in the world. Grant applicants must:

• have a track record of making high-quality, security-first contributions to Bitcoin or related projects.
• be committed to transparency and accountability. Brink is a publicly funded organization, and grantees are expected to publicly commit to project deliverables and give regular public updates on progress.
• be self-motivated and self-driven. Grantees will provide regular public updates on their projects, but day-to-day will be working independently. To be successful, grantees must thrive in a no-management work environment.
• be able to work collaboratively and constructively with other open-source contributors.
• be committed to increasing the impact of their contributions, growing the developer ecosystem and scaling Bitcoin and related projects.