We’re excited to welcome @thgO_O as a new grantee supported by Vinteum, in collaboration with the @BtcpayServer Foundation.
This grant reflects not only ThgO’s growing impact as a contributor, but also a strong alignment between Vinteum’s developer pipeline and the needs of critical Bitcoin infrastructure projects. External collaboration on this grant reinforces the quality of contributors emerging from our programs and the real-world relevance of their work.
ThgO first joined our ecosystem through the Bitcoin Dev Launchpad (BDL), where he stood out as one of the highlighted participants in the first cohort. He later continued as a Vinteum Fellow, further deepening his expertise in Bitcoin and Lightning development.
Since then, he has consistently expanded his contributions, becoming an active contributor to BTCPay Server, where he is now considered part of the core development team. He has also contributed to NLightning, applying his background in .NET to Bitcoin infrastructure.
In parallel, ThgO has been actively giving back to the ecosystem, mentoring in the Mastering Lightning seminars and helping host local Bitdevs meetups, contributing to the growth of the local Bitcoin developer community in Brazil.
With this grant, ThgO will focus on advancing BTCPay Server, one of the most important open-source projects enabling Bitcoin payments and circular economies worldwide.
Focus Areas
This grant is structured around three main pillars:
1. Improving BTCPay Server Core
ThgO will work on features and architectural improvements that directly impact merchants and node operators, including:
- Multisig setup improvements, introducing a new setup flow for multisig wallets in BTCPay Server Core, with a simpler and clearer user experience for wallet creation, participant configuration, and signing coordination.
- Permissions and roles improvements (Q1–Q3), consolidating and expanding access control across the system, including granular wallet permissions (e.g., Multisig, See Wallet Transactions), plugin permissions, and a roles cleanup to improve consistency and maintainability.
- Unified label-based navigation, improving how users explore transactions, payment requests, and wallet activity
- Floresta integration, introducing a lightweight, Utreexo-based backend for faster sync and lower resource usage
- A refactor of “Manage Plugins” into a sandboxed iframe (Q4), improving UI safety, isolation, and future extensibility, while enabling better support for sorting, ratings, and reviews.A refactor of “Manage Plugins” into a sandboxed iframe (Q4), improving UI safety, isolation, and future extensibility, while enabling better support for sorting, ratings, and reviews.
- Plugin translations, adding support for translations in plugins to improve accessibility and internationalization.
These changes aim to make BTCPay more secure, flexible, and accessible, especially for users running on constrained hardware or coordinating across teams.
2. Strengthening the Plugin Ecosystem
A major part of this grant focuses on improving the Plugin Builder, which enables developers to extend BTCPay Server:
- Improved testing and CI coverage, covering builds, installs, updates, dashboard, and Playwright tests to ensure reliability
- Plugin versioning and rollback support, allowing installation of specific versions and safer upgrades
- Plugin Builder health alerts, detecting downtime and surfacing warnings directly in BTCPay
- Dashboard improvements, providing a cleaner and more useful overview of plugins
- Plugin monetization and donation support
- Social and ownership features, including repo transfer, social login (GitHub, Nostr), and X/Twitter verification
- Plugin lifecycle management, supporting deprecated and unlisted plugins with clearer UI differentiation
- Ongoing maintenance and upgrades, including .NET/Postgres updates, DX improvements, and general platform stability
This work helps create a more sustainable ecosystem where contributors can build, maintain, and distribute plugins with confidence.
3. Supporting Bitcoin Communities and Non-Profits
Beyond core development, ThgO’s work will also extend to supporting Bitcoin communities and non-profits using BTCPay Server in real-world environments.
As part of this grant, he will help Vinteum streamline its own grant payout flows through the use and improvement of the Vendor Pay plugin, enabling more efficient and scalable Bitcoin-native operations for funding open-source contributors.
This effort is grounded in real-world usage. From supporting event operations like Satsconf to contributing to long-running circular economies such as Bitcoin Beach, ThgO’s work will focus on improving the tooling and workflows that these initiatives depend on daily.
More broadly, he will support other communities and non-profits that are:
- Setting up and operating their own BTCPay Server instances
- Looking to streamline payroll, grants, and recurring payments using Bitcoin
- Building or improving their local circular economies
By working closely with organizations on the ground, this pillar ensures that improvements to BTCPay Server are directly informed by real-world usage, constraints, and needs.
Looking Ahead
Over the next 12 months, this work will contribute to making BTCPay Server more robust, modular, and easier to extend, while lowering the barrier for developers and organizations adopting Bitcoin payments.
Through this collaboration with the BTCPay Server Foundation, and with ThgO’s growing role as a core contributor, this grant represents a strong step toward strengthening the infrastructure that powers Bitcoin-native economies.
We’re excited to support his work and see its impact across the ecosystem.
Github: https://github.com/thgO-O
X: https://x.com/thgO_O
Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqs0etru2j3v7x7lh5xxvrq4cvjm4tpgux5cvuxgzrg3jemwkyrgchcrvmet9
