Blog Post: OpenSats Receives Recurring Donation from Strive

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+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.
+
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+
+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