The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has awarded 1.3 billion satoshis in its latest round of grants from the Bitcoin Development Fund, backing 22 global freedom-tech initiatives aimed at strengthening financial freedom and resisting censorship under authoritarian regimes. The funding supports open-source Bitcoin development, decentralized mining infrastructure, privacy tools, and education programs across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The projects funded span a diverse range of companies, developers and organizations. Recipients include Stratum V2(improving decentralized mining communications), Braidpool (
Other key grantees include Sovereign Engineering, OpenSats Initiative, Inc., and programs that help people acquire Bitcoin without surveillance in repressive contexts. HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund aims to empower activists, educators and technologists who are using Bitcoin and related freedom technologies to protect civil liberties and expand access to permissionless money where financial repression and censorship threaten basic rights.
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