Developers

FTX

Bitcoin Development Boost: FTX Is Donating $450K to Brink

Zack SewardAug 13, 2021

Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange is committing to a three-year sponsorship of the coding nonprofit.

Funding

Biconomy Raises $9M to Make Building Dapps Easier for Developers

Cheyenne LigonJul 28, 2021

Coinbase Ventures and Huobi Innovation Labs were among the investors.

Alchemy

Alchemy Expands Free Tier in Bid to Attract More Blockchain Developers to Platform

Danny NelsonAug 20, 2021

The blockchain infrastructure startup says easy access to developer services helps projects "unfold at a higher velocity."

Solana

Coinbase’s Bison Trails Adds Developer Tool for Solana Blockchain

Cheyenne LigonJul 20, 2021

The network is now among the 20 or so supported by Bison Trails’ “Query & Transact” product.

OKCoin

Okcoin Awards $100K Grant to Bitcoin Development Non-Profit Brink

Benjamin PowersJun 10, 2021

The grants allow more developers to maintain and support Bitcoin’s codebase.

Developers

Developer Grants

BitMEX, Human Rights Foundation Award Bitcoin Developer Grants Worth $150K

Daniel Palmer

South Korea-based Calvin Kim works primarily on the bitcoin scaling project Utreexo.

Dogecoin

Dogecoin to Get DevOps Support for Commercial Apps Via DogeLabs.IO, AppSwarm

Tanzeel Akhtar

The DevOps team will be responsible for expanding projects related to the memecoin.

Taproot

‘Speedy Trial’ Taproot Activation on Bitcoin Could Still Include a Safety Net

Colin Harper

Speedy Trial is nearly approved for activating Taproot, but the code may still include a “user activated soft fork” safety net, just in case.

Lightning Network

OKCoin Toasts Its Bitcoin Lightning Network Launch With New Developer Grant

Colin Harper

OKCoin joins roughly half a dozen exchanges that support the scaling technology.

Craig Wright

Craig Wright Demands Bitcoin Developers Give Him Access to Stolen Mt. Gox Coins

Colin Harper

Craig Wright claims someone “stole” 110k BTC from him from wallets connected to the Mt. Gox hack. He wants Bitcoin developers to get them back.

Taproot

Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD

Colin Harper

The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion.

Eth 2.0

Valid Points: CoinDesk’s Ethereum 2.0 Validator Is Officially Staked

Christine KimWilliam Foxley

Ethereum developers met Tuesday to compare research on the eventual merge of Eth 1.x and Eth 2.0.