General Fund

The General Fund pays grants to Bitcoin developers and to the FOSS projects Bitcoin depends on. Anyone can donate. We allocate 100% of donations to grantees we have vetted; our own bills are paid out of a separate Operations Budget.

The OpenSats board reads every grant application that comes in and decides who gets funded. We look for work that materially improves Bitcoin or its open-source dependencies, that has an actual roadmap, and that needs the money to keep going. Past grants from this fund have paid for Bitcoin Core contributors, Lightning implementations, hardware wallets, fuzz testing, translation, education work, and a long list of smaller projects. You can see what we funded in the past by reading through our grant announcements, and what those grantees ship via OpenSats' Heartbeat.

If you're building something Bitcoin-related and need funding to keep going, you can apply for a grant from this fund. Applications open in the first two months of each quarter at opensats.org/apply, and the board works through them in batches. Cumulative payouts, our bylaws, and the year-end reports are linked from the transparency page.

Donate to the General Fund when you want OpenSats to allocate your money toward projects that make bitcoin better, faster, more user-friendly, and more secure. If you'd rather earmark your gift for nostr or for our operating costs, those funds have their own pages. Donations from US taxpayers are tax deductible.