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SHENZHEN, China — Cody Tseng is folded into the evening rush the way everyone else is in this city, absorbed by a current of twenty million people, one more developer heading home through streets that never fully dim.
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THE LIBRARIES BEHIND OPEN COMMUNICATION
These libraries let new projects spend less time rebuilding the same infrastructure and more time shaping the experience they want to offer.
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Made in Africa: Kurt and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner That Anyone Can Make
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SEVENTEENTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS
Projects in this round extend nostr into app discovery, private calls, software distribution, client onboarding, and access to AI tools.
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SATS WELL SPENT
A quarterly look at the free and open-source projects OpenSats supports, the builders behind them, and the impact your donations make possible.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Twice a year, in the spring and fall, we plan to highlight a focus area where we would like to see strong proposals. This spring, the focus is on privacy at Bitcoin's base layer.
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OPEN HARDWARE FOR OPEN MONEY
OpenSats provides support to builders who create hardware as free and open source infrastructure.
Projects live in public, with schematics, firmware, manufacturing files, and documentation available for anyone.
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SIXTEENTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS
first time grants:
- Amethyst Desktop
- Nostr Mail
- Nostrord
- Nurunuru
grant renewal:
- HAMSTR
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SEVENTEENTH WAVE OF BITCOIN GRANTS
Three first time grants:
•JoinMarket NG
•rawBit
•Specter DIY
Six grant renewals:
•Bitcoin Dev Launchpad
•Bitcoin Jungle
•Bitcoin Safe
•Bitshala
•Odudex
•Payjoin
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ADVANCEMENTS IN NOSTR RELAYS
OpenSats has funded relay-focused projects through The Nostr Fund since 2023, supporting developers who are building the software that runs relays and the frameworks that help others build new ones.
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5 GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT
This round focuses on improving the long-term maintainability, safety, and privacy of the project, from build system modernization and release testing coordination to peer-to-peer network security research.
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OPENSATS RECEIVES DONATION FROM @BITWISE BITCOIN ETF
OpenSats is grateful for recurring support from Bitwise as part of their pledge to donate 10% of profit.
These funds will be sent to open source contributors globally using bitcoin. We take no cut.
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FIFTEENTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS
This wave provides funding for work on agentic AI tooling, decentralized video infrastructure, and community-run internet access, all built to utilize nostr for identity, discovery, and communication.
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SIXTEENTH WAVE OF BITCOIN GRANTS
The projects in this wave include self-custodial wallets, DIY signing hardware and installer software, alternative node and mining software, and education programs that help new developers become contributors.
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OpenSats 2025 Year in Review: opensats.org/blog/2025-year-…
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LONG TERM SUPPORT FOR BRAD STACHURSKI
Brad has helped coordinate releases that make Fedimint safer to upgrade and easier to run. As a co-maintainer, he focuses on the security, reliability, and operability of production deployments.
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