We’re really proud to see some of our alumni among the recipients. 🧡 We’ll be running two more cohorts this year: Rust 🦀 for Bitcoiners and Language Clubs, both starting in October. Learn more and apply to join us here: btrust.tech/builders/apply

We’re excited to announce the Q3 2026 Btrust developer grant recipients. 🚀 Ten Bitcoin open-source developers are receiving support: five starter grant recipients and five long-term open-source cohort members. This quarter also marks an important first: Btrust developer grants are going directly to developers outside Africa. Through our recent expansion of long-term grants across the Global Majority, we’re now supporting developers in Brazil 🇧🇷 and India 🇮🇳. Their work, alongside that of recipients in Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Kenya 🇰🇪, spans @bitcoincoreorg, mining ⛏️ infrastructure, Lightning⚡, wallet libraries, and privacy-preserving payments. Meet the recipients and learn about their work:

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Hey 👋🏾 Join us for our monthly Socratic seminar. 🗓️ 25th September 2026 🕜 5:00pm - 6:30pm 📍 Africa's Talking Kampala 🔗 RSVP: clooza.com/events/BITDEVSKLA… Hope to see you there🚀

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Last year, we launched our first open source bootcamp to help emerging developers take their first steps into Bitcoin open source. Since then, some participants have gone on to fully funded open-source careers, while others have started projects of their own. That impact inspired us to take the program further. We’re excited to introduce the 2026 open source fellowship, a 12-week program designed to help builders deepen their knowledge, learn open-source practices, and make meaningful contributions to projects. From 24th August to 13th November 2026, fellows will: 🔸 Explore Bitcoin and Lightning protocols 🔸 Learn how to navigate and contribute to Bitcoin Core 🔸 Work with mentors on selected open-source projects 🔸 Engage with maintainers 🔸 Build a public proof-of-work portfolio Fellows will also receive a stipend during the program. Read the full announcement to learn more about the fellowship and what participants will be working on 👇

In our latest article, we catch up with these 11 builders to learn what they are working on now, what they have learned since the challenge and how the experience continues to shape their journeys in Bitcoin open-source development. Read the full story below 👇

The end of a program is not always the end of the story. Months after the 2026 ₿OSS Challenge, @abeeujah, @jolah99, Winterrdog, @tech_lateef, @JunaidAaliyah, @dev_useee, @chukwuxdike, @Su_Githaiga, @Its_nkathake, @_RulesPlayer and @_ceceji are still finding different ways to contribute to Bitcoin open source. Some are reviewing PRs and contributing to established projects. Others are building new applications, improving developer tools, exploring Lightning infrastructure, mentoring the next generation of developers and deepening their understanding of Bitcoin’s technology.

Hey 👋🏾 Join us for our monthly Socratic seminar. 🗓️ 31st July 2026 🕜 5:00pm - 6:30pm 📍 Africa's Talking Kampala 🔗 Register: clooza.com/events/BITDEVSKLA… Hope to see you there!

NEW: 🚨Btrust Announces Q2 2026 Developer Grant Recipients. Seven talented engineers from across Africa and the Global Majority have been awarded grants to advance critical projects in Bitcoin Core, wallet infrastructure, privacy tools, peer-to-peer exchange systems, and developer tooling. Read More: bitcoinnews.africa/btrust-an…

Nagasha is a software engineer based in Kampala, Uganda, and a contributor to @lightningpolar. Nagasha’s work so far has focused on making Polar easier and more reliable to use. She has helped add the ability to rename nodes, improved the manual block-mining workflow, contributed to Tor support for nodes, and participated in pull request reviews and issue discussions. With the starter grant, @nagasha_ will work full-time on improving Polar’s usability, reliability, and developer experience. Her planned work includes adding better support for @Core_LN on Windows, improving wallet locking and unlocking workflows, adding seed phrase and backup management tools, and fixing bugs that affect developer testing. She also helps grow the local Bitcoin developer community by organizing @BitDevsKLA 🇺🇬, creating a space for developers in Uganda to learn, discuss, and contribute to Bitcoin.

Ojok is a software engineer based in Kampala, Uganda. His Bitcoin development journey began through @btrust_builders programs, including the BOSS program, Bitcoin CLI, and the Open Source Bootcamp. Over the past grant period, he worked full-time on @bluewalletio, where he contributed to several important BlueWallet improvements. He has also been working on reproducible builds. With the long-term grant, @Ojokne will continue improving BlueWallet. His planned work includes Android 16KB page size compliance, finalizing reproducible builds, modernizing Gradle, improving interoperability with hardware and external wallets, expanding end-to-end test coverage, and exploring a Taproot CLTV savings wallet feature. His work will help make BlueWallet more reliable, easier to maintain, and more trustworthy for users who depend on self-custodial bitcoin tools. Ojok also contributes to local Bitcoin developer education as a co-organizer of @BitDevsKLA 🇺🇬, helping developers in Uganda learn, discuss Bitcoin technical topics, and connect with open-source contribution opportunities.

We’re excited to announce the Q2, 2026 Btrust Developer Grant recipients. 🚀 Seven Bitcoin open-source developers were awarded grants last quarter, including three starter grant recipients and four long-term open-source cohort members. This cohort continues our mission to decentralize Bitcoin open-source development by supporting talented contributors from the Global Majority. Their work spans wallet infrastructure, @bitcoincoreorg testing, developer tools, privacy-preserving payments, peer-to-peer exchange infrastructure, cryptography, and user-facing bitcoin applications. The quarter also marked an important first for us: for the first time, we supported a grantee working on peer-to-peer exchange infrastructure. Learn more about the Q2 recipients and what they’re working on here:

NEW: ⚡️Women Are Building Bitcoin’s Future in Africa, And Btrust Is Funding Them. In the just-concluded Q1 2026 Mastering Bitcoin cohort, 34% of participants were women. Recently, Btrust spotlighted three African women whose work shows exactly what that future looks like. Read More: bitcoinnews.africa/women-bit…

Read the full story of how they are shaping Bitcoin's future here👇🏾

Behind every active Bitcoin open-source contributor is a system that helped them get there, one that helped them discover Bitcoin, develop the skills to work on it, and find a place within the open-source ecosystem. Supporting that system across the Global Majority is what Btrust grants are designed to do. For a long time, open-source Bitcoin development has not reflected the full range of people Bitcoin is meant to serve. That gap was never about ability. It was about access, to learning paths, technical communities, mentors, and funding. Since 2021, Btrust has been working to change that through grants, mentorship, and education programs for developers from Africa and the Global Majority. @Camilla_rhi , @nagasha_ and @engb_os are three grantees from across Africa who found their way into serious Bitcoin open-source work through that system. Three different backgrounds. Three different paths. One shared commitment to building.

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