Leonardo (@_oleonardolima) is a developer based in Brazil 🇧🇷, joining plebhash and Ansh among the first developers Btrust has directly funded outside Africa. He works on the @bitcoindevkit, a collection of libraries and tools for building Bitcoin wallets. He maintains BDK’s blockchain data-source clients, which help wallets obtain the information needed to track transactions and balances. With the long-term grant, Leonardo will continue this maintenance work alongside developer mentorship, supporting both wallet infrastructure and the people building it.

Abiodun is a software engineer and Bitcoin open-source contributor based in Lagos, Nigeria. His work focuses on wallet infrastructure in the @bitcoindevkit ecosystem. @_abiodunAwoyemi is a secondary maintainer of bdk-tx, a transaction-building library in the BDK ecosystem. His contributions have covered many areas that directly affect wallet safety and reliability. These include fee calculation fixes, anti-fee-sniping support, Payjoin examples, CPFP fee-bumping support, locktime handling, BIP353 payment support reviews, PSBT creation, BIP322 message signing, and continuous integration improvements. With the long-term grant, Abiodun will continue strengthening BDK and BDK-TX. His work will focus on making Bitcoin transaction construction safer, more predictable, and easier for developers to use. Abiodun also co-organizes @BitDevsLagos 🇳🇬, helping create space for technical Bitcoin discussion and contributor growth in Nigeria.