diff --git a/data/blog/opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.mdx b/data/blog/opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.mdx new file mode 100644 index 000000000..eaf5f68bb --- /dev/null +++ b/data/blog/opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +--- +title: 'OpenSats Receives Recurring Donation from Strive' +date: '2026-10-16' +tags: ['funding', 'donations', 'security'] +draft: false +authors: ['arvin', 'default'] +images: ['/static/images/blog/119-opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.jpg'] +summary: "OpenSats has received the first donation under Strive’s recurring support for the Red Team Fund." +--- + +OpenSats has received the first donation from Strive under its recurring +monthly commitment to support the [Red Team Fund]. + +[Strive] is a publicly traded finance company and institutional asset manager +with bitcoin at the center of its strategy. In September, Strive announced +its [support for the Red Team Fund] as part of its [Bitcoin Stewardship +Commitment], which also backs open-source Bitcoin development through +[Brink] and public policy work through the [Bitcoin Policy Institute]. + +The Red Team Fund was established to support security researchers working to +find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in critical open-source Bitcoin +software by reimbursing LLM token and infrastructure costs incurred in this +work, giving researchers access to resources that can become expensive when +running large scale security scans and testing. + +OpenSats recently announced their [first wave of grants] from the Red Team +Fund, supporting researchers using AI-assisted security scanning, fuzzing, +differential testing, and other methods to examine open-source Bitcoin +software for vulnerabilities. + +Strive points to advances in AI that are making software vulnerabilities +easier to discover and exploit. Supporting researchers with access to +frontier models, compute, and other resources helps them use those tools to +find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities. + +OpenSats would like to thank Strive for its commitment and continued monthly +support of the Red Team Fund. Recurring donations provide a dependable source +of funding for researchers doing this work and allow OpenSats to direct +resources toward security efforts across the Bitcoin ecosystem. + +If you would like to support developers and researchers red teaming critical +open-source Bitcoin software, you can donate directly to the [Red Team Fund] +with a one-time or recurring donation. + + + +Experienced developers and security researchers working on red teaming Bitcoin +software can also [apply for funding] through OpenSats. + +[Red Team Fund]: /funds/red +[Strive]: https://strive.com/ +[support for the Red Team Fund]: https://btctimes.com/strive-expands-bitcoin-stewardship-commitment-to-support-opensats-red-team-fund +[Bitcoin Stewardship Commitment]: https://x.com/ColeMacro/status/2079907362979410395 +[Brink]: https://brink.dev/ +[Bitcoin Policy Institute]: https://www.btcpolicy.org/who-we-are +[first wave of grants]: /blog/red-team-grants-first-set +[apply for funding]: /apply/red diff --git a/public/static/images/blog/119-opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.jpg b/public/static/images/blog/119-opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..51191f32f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/static/images/blog/119-opensats-receives-recurring-donation-from-strive.jpg differ