No team is big enough to build open-source bitcoin or AI alone.

We've given hundreds of grants to projects and individual contributors in over a dozen countries. Many Spiral grantees have gone on to work for major companies or start their own companies, letting our program continue giving back long after the grant is gone.

If you're an independent developer, designer, or someone passionate about bitcoin or open-source AI with a big idea for improving either, please reach out. We're not even sure how many grants we've given out, but we'd gladly give more.

Send a detailed proposal to grants@spiral.xyz. Or just smash the button.

Spiral Grantees

2026

Abhijay Jain

Apr 2026Current Grantee

Larry McCay

Apr 2026Current Grantee

Uchi Uchibeke

Mar 2026Current Grantee

Nishant Bansal

Mar 2026Current Grantee

gitgab

Mar 2026Current Grantee

Anthony Milton

Mar 2026Current Grantee

Jerry Ochieng Anyumba

Feb 2026Current Grantee

BTC Map

Jan 2026Current Grantee

Daniel Pfeifer

Jan 2026Current Grantee

2025

Alex Wiederin

Nov 2025Current Grantee

Hao Xu

Oct 2025Current Grantee

Ademan

Aug 2025Current Grantee

Vincenzo Palazzo

Jun 2025Current Grantee

Martin Saposnic

May 2025Current Grantee

Coinswap

May 2025Current Grantee

Cesar Rodas

Apr 2025Current Grantee

Andrei Ivanitskii

Apr 2025Alumni

Maurice Poirrier

Mar 2025Alumni

Lőrinc

Jan 2025Current Grantee

Rob Netzke

Jan 2025Current Grantee

2024

Bob McElrath

Nov 2024Current Grantee

Leo Nash

Nov 2024Alumni

Rachel Rybarczyk

Oct 2024Alumni

Austin Krauss

Sep 2024Current Grantee

spacebear

Aug 2024Alumni

Nicholas Johnson

Jul 2024Current Grantee

thesimplekid

May 2024Current Grantee

siv2r

May 2024Current Grantee

Sean Gilligan

Apr 2024Alumni

BDK Foundation

Apr 2024Alumni

Plebhash

Jan 2024Alumni

2023

Dan Gould

Dec 2023Current Grantee

Esraa

Dec 2023Alumni

Bitcoin Design Foundation

Nov 2023Alumni

Joschisan

Nov 2023Current Grantee

ZeroSync

Sep 2023Current Grantee

Will Clark

Sep 2023Current Grantee

Michael Haase

Jul 2023Alumni

Alyssa Hertig

Jun 2023Alumni

Matthew Ramsden

May 2023Alumni

Amiti Uttarwar

Apr 2023Alumni

John Moffett

Apr 2023Alumni

Matt Morehouse

Mar 2023Alumni

Okjodom

Feb 2023Alumni

Evan Lin

Feb 2023Alumni

0xB10C

Feb 2023Alumni

Sebastian Kung

Jan 2023Current Grantee

2022

Justin Moeller

Nov 2022Current Grantee

Wallet Scrutiny

Oct 2022Current Grantee

Josh Kitman

Aug 2022Alumni

Johannes Hofmann

Jul 2022Alumni

Ruben Somsen

Jun 2022Alumni

Daniela Brozzoni

Jun 2022Alumni

Mogashni Naidoo

Jun 2022Current Grantee

Bitcoin Zavior

Apr 2022Current Grantee

thunderbiscuit

Apr 2022Alumni

2021

Doc Sharp

Nov 2021Alumni

John Cantrell

Sep 2021Alumni

Stephen DeLorme

Sep 2021Alumni

Summer of Bitcoin

Aug 2021Alumni

Dhruv Mehta

Jun 2021Alumni

Raj Maitra

Jun 2021Current Grantee

mempool.space

Apr 2021Alumni

Pavlenex

Feb 2021Current Grantee

Fi3

Jan 2021Alumni

Leon Johnson

Jan 2021Alumni

2020

Brink

Dec 2020Alumni

Riccardo Casatta

Nov 2020Alumni

Margaret Valentine

Nov 2020Alumni

Conor Okus

Nov 2020Alumni

Jamaal Montasser

Sep 2020Alumni

Johns Beharry

Sep 2020Alumni

Daniel Nordh

Sep 2020Alumni

Thor Konig

Aug 2020Alumni

Lloyd Fournier

Aug 2020Alumni

Steve Myers

Jul 2020Alumni

Vasil Dimov

Jul 2020Current Grantee

Chris Belcher

Jul 2020Alumni

Validating Lightning Signer

Jul 2020Alumni

Christoph Ono

Jul 2020Alumni

Sergi Delgado

Jun 2020Alumni

Justin Moon

Apr 2020Alumni

Jon Atack

Mar 2020Alumni

Tankred Hase

Mar 2020Alumni

2019

ZmnSCPxj

Dec 2019Alumni

BTCPay Server

Sep 2019Alumni

Additional Supported Projects

Lightning Dev Kit

Current Grantee

The Eye of Satoshi

Current Grantee

Bitcoin Core

Current Grantee

Bitcoin Design

Current Grantee

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