The Human Rights Foundation said it has distributed more than 60 million satoshis, worth about $472,800, to 16 projects through its Bitcoin Development Fund in a new round of grants. The funded teams are based across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the grants are aimed at strengthening the Bitcoin protocol, expanding real-world Bitcoin use, and supporting secure communications and community infrastructure for dissidents. This marks HRF’s second grant round of 2026. The organization had previously announced support for 26 projects in April. The latest recipients span several areas, including Bitcoin payments, core and wallet development, and censorship-resistant communications in the Nostr ecosystem. Among them, BitSpenda plans to expand a mobile money-to-Bitcoin bridge for lower-cost cross-border transfers in Africa, while Project Island Resilience and Bitzed are working on offline payments and direct Bitcoin purchases through mobile money.
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) said it has awarded more than 60 million satoshis through its Bitcoin Development Fund to 16 projects around the world in a new grant round, an amount it said is worth about $472,800. The recipients are spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
HRF said the grants are meant to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol, broaden Bitcoin’s real-world use, and support secure communications and community infrastructure for dissidents. This is HRF’s second funding round in 2026. The organization previously announced support for 26 projects in April.
Funding spans payments, development, and Nostr tools
In Bitcoin payments, BitSpenda plans to expand its mobile money-to-Bitcoin bridge to reduce the cost of cross-border transfers in Africa. Project Island Resilience, built on Jamaican developer Dread’s Flash wallet, plans to add offline payment features using Bluetooth, NFC, and ecash. Bitzed is working to help users in Zambia buy Bitcoin directly through mobile money.
On the development side, Libbitcoinkernel, Floresta, BDK-Dart, and WalletScrutiny are focused on core code reuse, lightweight nodes, cross-platform wallet tools, and wallet audits, respectively.
Within the Nostr ecosystem, projects including Vector, Flotilla Chat, OpenAlert, and 0xchat also received support to provide censorship-resistant encrypted communication tools.
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