BitMEX, like other companies in the Bitcoin space, relies heavily on the (often-volunteer) work of dedicated open source developers. This work may be difficult, demanding, and often thankless. We believe it is the duty of corporations to help nourish the ecosystems in which they exist, giving back where possible to the projects from which they benefit – and from which their very business model may stem. Without the millions of free hours dedicated by open source developers powering everything from our operating systems to our web servers to Bitcoin itself, the BitMEX trading platform could not have been built.
Total Historic Open Source Developer Grant Funding
Grantee Name | Area | Total Amount Provided |
MIT DCI | Bitcoin development | US$500,000 |
Brink | Bitcoin development | US$50,000 |
Michael Ford |
Bitcoin development | US$250,000 |
Gleb Naumenko |
Bitcoin development | US$300,000 |
Calvin Kim |
Bitcoin development | US$230,000 |
Sjors Provoost |
Bitcoin development | US$115,000 |
Rene Pickhardt |
Bitcoin development | US$108,333 |
Chris Coverdale |
Bitcoin development | US$108,333 |
Amiti Uttarwar |
Bitcoin development | US$75,000 |
Jeremy Rubin |
Bitcoin development | US$50,000 |
Alex Hultman |
NodeJS – µWebSockets | US$215,000 |
Total | US$2,001,666 |
(Differences in rates between developers are primarily driven by the extent to which the developer has other sources of funding and cost of living adjustments)
Grantee Requirements
- In general, grants are awarded free of obligation
- However, in the case of the Open Source Developer Grant, grantees will be required to write a report every 6 months on the development work they have conducted. This report is likely to be published on our website under an open source license.
Template Grant Contract
Any grant offers may be based on the “template grant contract”, which is published under an open source licence on GitHub
Other Grants & Donations
Grantee/Donee name | Date | Amount |
Sinon (Node JS) |
US$100 per month | |
Babel (Compiler for JavaScript) |
US$500 per month | |
Exonumia |
US$3,000 | |
Pidgin |
US$20,000 | |
JA Worldwide |
US$1,000,000 | |
OpenMined COVID-19 Collective |
US$300,000 | |
Our World in Data |
US$700,000 | |
Nuclear Threat Initiative |
US$1,000,000 | |
Gates Philanthropy Partners |
US$500,000 | |
Shadowserver Foundation |
US$400,000 | |
The Water Project |
US$2,390 |