Wu said that he learned that Arthur Hayes’ family office Maelstrom announced that it had awarded the first grant of its Bitcoin developer program to contributor Rkrux. This funding will support Rkrux to work on Bitcoin Core full-time. The specific amount of funding has not been disclosed. Earlier in July, Maelstrom announced the Bitcoin funding program, which aims to help the technical development of Bitcoin and enhance its resilience, scalability, censorship resistance and privacy features.