OpenSats Announces Second Wave of Grants for Bitcoin and Nostr Projects
"The freedom tech will continue until morale improves."
- "After announcing our first wave of grants for bitcoin1 and nostr2 projects, we are pleased to announce an additional wave of grants for open-source projects in the space."
"The first five grants are sourced from our General Fund, the last three—being nostr projects—from our Nostr Fund. This brings the total number of OpenSats grants to 41, adding to the grants we previously announced in July."
- BDK. "Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a set of libraries and tools that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform on-chain bitcoin wallets without having to re-implement standard bitcoin data structures, algorithms, and protocols."
- LNbits. "LNbits is used by a multitude of projects in the bitcoin space, especially as part of their lightning payments stack. Being easy to build on through its extension framework, LNbits has been pioneering various cutting-edge solutions and experiments in the world of bitcoin, lightning, and nostr."
- Watchdescriptor. "
watchdescriptoris a CLN plugin written in Rust that connects a business's treasury wallet to its CLN node. It utilizescln-pluginand the BDK library to track coin movements in registered wallets and report this information to thebookkeeperplugin. The plugin enables businesses to design a complete treasury using Miniscript and import the resulting descriptor into CLN." - Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool. "The Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool allows the bitcoin mining industry to test and benchmark Stratum V2 performance against Stratum V1. The goal of the project is to motivate miners to upgrade to Stratum V2, increasing their individual profits and making the Bitcoin network more resilient in the process."
- Fedimint Modules and Resources. "Fedimint is a federated Chaumian e-cash mint backed by sats with deposits and withdrawals that can occur on-chain or via lightning. The goal of this particular project is to improve the Fedimint UI and develop free and open resources for developers and "Guardians" to enable more people to run and develop on Fedimint."
- Amber: Nostr Event Signer. "Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their
nsecsegregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware." - Nostr UI/UX Development. "The goal of this project is to help improve the UI/UX of major nostr clients, starting with Gossip and Coracle, emphasizing the onboarding process as well as usability and accessibility."
- Nostr Use-Case Exploration & Education. "As of today, most nostr clients implement social media applications on top of the nostr protocol. However, nostr allows for various use cases, many of which go beyond social media. Two examples are Listr and Ostrich, a list management tool and job board, respectively. In addition to use-case exploration, this project will continue to educate users and developers alike, be it via Nostr How or various video series, e.g., explaining how to build upon NDK."
"We have more grants in the pipeline and will provide funding for many more projects in the future. Note that we can only fund those projects which reach out and apply. If you are an open-source developer who is aligned with our mission, don't hesitate to apply for funding."
