B HODL (AQUIS: $HODL | FRA: F5S) is pleased to announce it has issued its first grant under the Company’s Industry Support initiative. The first grant is made to @bitcoinbrink, a donation-funded team strengthening the Bitcoin protocol through research and development.

If you’ve ever donated to Brink, you should scrutinise how we’re spending your funds. We’re working hard to maintain the Bitcoin codebase, and expanding our security and maintenance efforts. We’re raising to fund more fuzzing engineers and infra; now’s a great time to donate.

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We are thankful for our donors, partners, engineers, volunteers, and community members. Thank you for helping strengthen Bitcoin for future generations.

Even with Brink’s “move slow and fix things” mentality, we have initiatives we are excited about into the future including a recently completed third party security audit, a bug bounty program, and further expanded testing capabilities.

Some of the organizational initiatives that we are proud of from 2024

Thank you so much to the Social Fest team for bringing me out to speak. You’ve built something really special in the valley. Can’t wait to see you all next year!

In 2024, Brink’s expenses were ~$1,800,000 - Programs ($1,494,673) - General & Administrative Expenses ($330,115 - Fundraising ($19,325) The full report breaks down these numbers https://t.co/FKLOLfSawW

Brink’s donors contributed approximately $6,500,000 toward our mission last year. In the report, we list all of our major donors, who contributed over $5,000 each, and thank them for the crucial role they played in our success.

When we founded Brink in 2020, “move fast and break things” for-profit crypto companies were rampant and a “move slow and fix things” Bitcoin non-profit was a low time preference outlier. We are proud to share our continued progress toward this mission. https://t.co/0ei8ESBOGL

Brink’s 2024 Annual Financial Report Brink recently completed our 2024 accounting audit and IRS Form 990 filing. Using that information, we have compiled Brink’s 2024 annual organizational and financial report.

Thank you to @bitcoinbrink for funding the first ever external security audit of Bitcoin Core. Not surprisingly, no serious issues were uncovered in the audit by @quarkslab, and many places for security testing improvement were identified:

Quarkslab engineers @RobinDavid1, @MihailKirov1 and Kaname just completed the first public security audit of Bitcoin Core, led by @OSTIFofficial and funded by @bitcoinbrink. Details on the blog post: https://t.co/xPkDEV7LDy Congrats to developers for such software masterpiece !

Brink has been engaging more devs, to do more things. Security & maintenance work carries on.

@bitschmidty from @bitcoinbrink took the initiative to sponsor a security audit of Bitcoin Core. @dergoegge and i helped by providing guidance to @quarkslab's team. Read up more about it here:

Brink just wrapped up a third-party security audit of Bitcoin Core. To our knowledge, this is the first of its kind public security audit. "The results confirm what long-time contributors and users already know: Bitcoin Core is a mature, conservatively engineered, and

Thank you to Quarkslab, the OSTIF, Niklas, and Antoine for their work on this project. The full report is publicly available here: https://t.co/mLfBhj0jb9

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Funding independent reviews like this is just one way we help ensure Bitcoin doesn’t break and continues to serve the world as a secure, reliable monetary network. Independent review only strengthens that confidence.

What the auditors found The auditors at Quarkslab reported no critical, high, or medium-severity issues. They identified two low-severity findings and thirteen informational recommendations, none of which were classified as security vulnerabilities under Bitcoin Core’s criteria.

What the audit involved The focus was on the most security-critical components of the software, including the peer-to-peer networking layer, mempool, chain management, and consensus logic and included: - Manual code review - Static and dynamic analysis - Advanced fuzz testing

Why Brink funded this work The project has a strong security track record, but it has never undergone an external security assessment. We wanted to provide an additional layer of assurance for developers, node operators, holders, and businesses who rely on Bitcoin Core every day

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The assessment was conducted by Quarkslab (@quarkslab) and was coordinated with the help of the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF @OSTIFofficial). Funding was provided by Brink with the support of our donors, with technical collaboration from @dergoegge and @darosior