# Current Grantees :lucide-chevrons-right: Full-Time
-## ValuedMammal
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-[:material-github:](https://github.com/ValuedMammal) [:material-twitter:](https://twitter.com/valuedmammal)
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-ValuedMammal is a Rust developer and node operator whose work includes research in the areas of mempool and p2p. He's interested in bitcoin payment solutions, problems around fee estimation, and innovations in bitcoin Script. In 2021 he managed Tangerine node on the lightning network and was active in the PLEBNET community. He started contributing to BDK out of a belief that modern wallets should be built with modern tools and sought out a team that makes no compromises when it comes to quality and correctness and who share a mission to master the fundamentals while providing convenient abstractions to developers. His unorthodox path into software development came as a byproduct of his own bitcoin journey and continues to grow more fulfilling each day. As a result, his natural environment is in a terminal managing a server or database, and of course writing code. ValuedMammal studied Biological Science at university, and outside of bitcoin he's a writer and educator who likes music, travel, and foreign languages.
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+## ValuedMammal
## Evan Lin
Evan Lin (林志宇) is a Rust/Golang developer who has been contributing to BDK since 2022. Before working on bitcoin-related projects, his professional career started in 2017 where he led various umbrella projects for an altcoin. After discovering the importance of bitcoin, he started contributing to various projects (including BDK, Fedimint and Utreexo) and was eventually taken under the wing of and mentored by Lloyd Fournier.
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+## Itoro Ukpong
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+[:material-github:](https://github.com/ItoroD)
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+Itoro is a software engineer with over six years of experience building Java-based enterprise applications. In 2024, he was selected as a fellow in the Btrust Builders program, where he was introduced to Bitcoin and began contributing to the open source Bitcoin ecosystem. During the fellowship, he focused on learning the foundational principles of Bitcoin, its developer tooling, and how to contribute meaningfully to open source projects.
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+Since then, he has been contributing to Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK), specifically through the BDK-FFI project and BDK Kotlin Example Wallet, which enables BDK's powerful wallet functionality to be used in languages like Kotlin and Swift. His goal is to help make Bitcoin more accessible—particularly for mobile developers and users in regions where onboarding and usability are still major challenges. He's passionate about open source, developer tools, and expanding Bitcoin's reach through better infrastructure and tooling.
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+Outside of Bitcoin, he loves to draw and explore creative expression through art.
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+Itoro's grant is [funded by BTrust](https://blog.btrust.tech/announcing-q1-2025-btrust-grants/). [Btrust](https://www.btrust.tech) is a non-profit organization with a dedicated mission to decentralize the development of Bitcoin software. Their focus is on fostering developer talent in the global south and supporting the free and open-source Bitcoin ecosystem.
## Leonardo Souza
Leonardo's grant is [funded by Vinteum](https://medium.com/vinteum-org/leonardo-lima-named-bdk-maintainer-and-renews-his-vinteum-grant-65df014e9292). [Vinteum](https://vinteum.org) is a non-profit Bitcoin research and development center dedicated to supporting Bitcoin developers in Brazil and the wider Latin America region.
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## Matthew Ramsden
[:material-github:](https://github.com/reez) [:material-twitter:](https://twitter.com/matthewramsden) [:lucide-feather:](https://njump.me/npub1reezn2ctrrg736uqj7mva9lsuwv0kr5asj4vvkwxnrwlhvxf98tsq99ty4)
He also created the Lightning iOS app [Monday](https://github.com/reez/Monday), the native iOS implementation of Bitcoin UI Kit [BitcoinUI](https://github.com/reez/BitcoinUI), the iOS app [Block Screen](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/block-screen/id1533333210), and co-organizes NashBitDevs.
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-## thunderbiscuit
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-[:material-github:](https://github.com/thunderbiscuit) [:material-web:](https://thunderbiscuit.com) [:material-twitter:](https://twitter.com/thunderB__)
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-Thunderbiscuit is an Android engineer who's has been working on the project for over 3 years, leading the work on the language bindings for BDK. He's using BDK in production with [Padawan Wallet](https://padawanwallet.com/). He's also in charge of the [BDK Kotlin Example Wallet](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-kotlin-example-wallet), the sample native Android wallet for BDK, and the [Book of BDK](https://bitcoindevkit.github.io/book-of-bdk/) project, working on building walkthrough documentation for the BDK ecosystem.
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-## Itoro Ukpong
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-[:material-github:](https://github.com/ItoroD)
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-Itoro is a software engineer with over six years of experience building Java-based enterprise applications. In 2024, he was selected as a fellow in the Btrust Builders program, where he was introduced to Bitcoin and began contributing to the open source Bitcoin ecosystem. During the fellowship, he focused on learning the foundational principles of Bitcoin, its developer tooling, and how to contribute meaningfully to open source projects.
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-Since then, he has been contributing to Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK), specifically through the BDK-FFI project and BDK Kotlin Example Wallet, which enables BDK's powerful wallet functionality to be used in languages like Kotlin and Swift. His goal is to help make Bitcoin more accessible—particularly for mobile developers and users in regions where onboarding and usability are still major challenges. He's passionate about open source, developer tools, and expanding Bitcoin's reach through better infrastructure and tooling.
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-Outside of Bitcoin, he loves to draw and explore creative expression through art.
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-Itoro's grant is [funded by BTrust](https://blog.btrust.tech/announcing-q1-2025-btrust-grants/). [Btrust](https://www.btrust.tech) is a non-profit organization with a dedicated mission to decentralize the development of Bitcoin software. Their focus is on fostering developer talent in the global south and supporting the free and open-source Bitcoin ecosystem.
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## Peter Tyonum
[:material-github:](https://github.com/tvpeter)
Peter's grant is [funded by BTrust](https://blog.btrust.tech/announcing-q2-2025-btrust-developer-grant-recipients/). [Btrust](https://www.btrust.tech) is a non-profit organization with a dedicated mission to decentralize the development of Bitcoin software. Their focus is on fostering developer talent in the global south and supporting the free and open-source Bitcoin ecosystem.
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+## thunderbiscuit
-# Current Grantees :lucide-chevrons-right: Project Grants
+[:material-github:](https://github.com/thunderbiscuit) [:material-web:](https://thunderbiscuit.com) [:material-twitter:](https://twitter.com/thunderB__)
-## Nymius
+Thunderbiscuit is an Android engineer who's has been working on the project for over 3 years, leading the work on the language bindings for BDK. He's using BDK in production with [Padawan Wallet](https://padawanwallet.com/). He's also in charge of the [BDK Kotlin Example Wallet](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-kotlin-example-wallet), the sample native Android wallet for BDK, and the [Book of BDK](https://bitcoindevkit.github.io/book-of-bdk/) project, working on building walkthrough documentation for the BDK ecosystem.
-[:material-github:](https://github.com/nymius)
+[:material-github:](https://github.com/ValuedMammal) [:material-twitter:](https://twitter.com/valuedmammal)
-Nymius is a software engineer who fell down the rabbit hole of bitcoin, privacy and open source. After contributing to other bitcoin related projects, he found BDK, where his interest for bitcoin and rust got aligned. Since then he has been contributing to the coin selection and the persistence testing module, and file store. His new challenge is implementing support for BIP 352 (Silent Payments) on BDK. At the same time he will continue his previous work and help with the maintenance of the project.
+ValuedMammal is a Rust developer and node operator whose work includes research in the areas of mempool and p2p. He's interested in bitcoin payment solutions, problems around fee estimation, and innovations in bitcoin Script. In 2021 he managed Tangerine node on the lightning network and was active in the PLEBNET community. He started contributing to BDK out of a belief that modern wallets should be built with modern tools and sought out a team that makes no compromises when it comes to quality and correctness and who share a mission to master the fundamentals while providing convenient abstractions to developers. His unorthodox path into software development came as a byproduct of his own bitcoin journey and continues to grow more fulfilling each day. As a result, his natural environment is in a terminal managing a server or database, and of course writing code. ValuedMammal studied Biological Science at university, and outside of bitcoin he's a writer and educator who likes music, travel, and foreign languages.
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+# Current Grantees :lucide-chevrons-right: Project Grants
## Luis Schwab
He started contributing to BDK through [Summer of Bitcoin 2024](https://www.summerofbitcoin.org), and currently works on integrating [Floresta](https://github.com/vinteumorg/Floresta), a Utreexo-powered node implementation, with BDK, through the `bdk-floresta` crate.
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+## Nymius
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+[:material-github:](https://github.com/nymius)
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+Nymius is a software engineer who fell down the rabbit hole of bitcoin, privacy and open source. After contributing to other bitcoin related projects, he found BDK, where his interest for bitcoin and rust got aligned. Since then he has been contributing to the coin selection and the persistence testing module, and file store. His new challenge is implementing support for BIP 352 (Silent Payments) on BDK. At the same time he will continue his previous work and help with the maintenance of the project.
# Past Grantees
He has been contributing to BDK since April 2023 mostly on the project management side (holding calls, helping with triage and prioritization, updating stakeholders). Since April 2024, he has started conducting user interviews in order to get feedback on BDK usage and possible pain points with the aim to help the team with the definition and prioritization of the development activities. In May 2024 he started collaborating as a product/project manager with Wizard Sardine (users of BDK) and in particular to the development and go-to-market strategy of Liana Wallet.
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## Robert Netzke
After studying mathematics at the University of California - Berkeley, Robert began his career in FOSS though the [Chaincode BOSS program](https://learning.chaincode.com/), and now works at [2140](https://2140.dev/) to maintain a variety of projects. His primary interest in Bitcoin was the cryptography involved, and he maintains/co-authored [ChaCha20Poly1305](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/) and [BIP-324](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/bip324). Since his initial contributions to the Rust ecosystem, Robert focuses on inclusive, private, and performant software that everyone can use.
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## Wei Chen
[:material-github:](https://github.com/LagginTimes)
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