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Human Rights Foundation Bitcoin Development Fund

FreedomGrowth

Supporting Bitcoin developers building financial freedom tools

🌐 bitcoindevelopers.hrf.orgX / Twitter📍 NYEst. 2019👥 1-10 employees
3Rounds
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General InformationThe Human Rights Foundation Bitcoin Development Fund is a grants program based in New York that provides funding to independent Bitcoin developers, operating as a small team within the broader HRF organization since 2019.
Funding & FinancialsThe fund operates as a grant program under HRF's non-profit structure; specific total funding amounts are not publicly disclosed, but HRF receives support from various freedom-tech and human rights donors.
Leadership & TeamThe program is led by Human Rights Foundation leadership including Executive Director Alex Gladstein, with program management focused on developer grants rather than traditional corporate structure.
Recent ActivityThe fund has continued issuing grants to Bitcoin developers building privacy tools and censorship-resistant infrastructure, with recent focus on supporting developers in countries with financial repression.

Highlights

Total Raised
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3 rounds
Latest Round
$1.5
Apr 12, 2026
Stage
Growth
freedom-tech
Employees
1-10
Founded 2019
Headquarters
NY
News Coverage
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Talent Signals
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SEC Filings
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Backers

Human Rights Foundation

Funding History

$1.5
2026
Q1 2026 Grant Disbursement
$1.5
2026
Q1 2026 Grant Cohort
$1.5
2026
Q1 2026 Grant Distribution
SEC Form D   Editorial
Apr 12, 2026
1.5 billion satoshisQ1 2026 Grant Distribution · Editorial

Investors: Human Rights Foundation

Largest BDF disbursement in six-year history: 1.5 billion satoshis distributed to 26 Freedom Tech projects across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean — supporting privacy infrastructure, remittance bridges, and activist networks.

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Apr 6, 2026
1.5 billion satoshisQ1 2026 Grant Cohort · Editorial

Investors: Human Rights Foundation

HRF distributed 1.5 billion satoshis across 26 projects advancing Bitcoin protocol privacy, Lightning payments, and financial infrastructure for people in authoritarian regimes.

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Apr 2, 2026
1.5 billion satoshisQ1 2026 Grant Disbursement · Editorial

Investors: Human Rights Foundation

HRF announced 1.5 billion satoshis in grants to 26 projects advancing Bitcoin privacy, Lightning payments, hardware wallets, and grassroots adoption in authoritarian regimes.

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