Strive is expanding its Bitcoin Stewardship Commitment to support the Red Team Fund at OpenSats, a nonprofit that pays security researchers for finding and disclosing vulnerabilities in Bitcoin software. 

Chief Executive Matt Cole announced the move in a September 10th X post.

Cole said the new support builds on Strive's ongoing backing of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, which focuses on Bitcoin public policy, and Brink, an organization that funds developers contributing to Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin infrastructure.

He pointed to fast-advancing AI as a reason Bitcoin software vulnerabilities are becoming easier to find and exploit, and said defenders need leading AI models and the computing power to run them at scale to catch flaws first.

Cole thanked security researchers Rob1Ham and Calle, along with the broader Bitcoin Red Team, for their work to date. 

The Red Team Fund, run by OpenSats as part of its status as a 501(c)(3) public charity, pays researchers conducting adversarial testing on Bitcoin software and can reimburse the AI token costs that work incurs.

Strive did not disclose a dollar figure for its contribution to the fund.

The Bitcoin Stewardship Commitment originated on July 22nd, when Strive first pledged support for Bitcoin's open-source ecosystem alongside its existing backing of the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

In that announcement, Strive stated that protecting the network was "not philanthropy" but "prudent long-term stewardship," and added that its support comes with no expectation of influence over Bitcoin's technical decisions or governance.