Overview
- MARA unveiled the MARA Foundation on Monday at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, opening a $100,000 community vote that runs through April 29 with in-person voting at its booth.
- The foundation’s mandate covers five areas that shape Bitcoin’s resilience, including research on quantum risks, support for a durable fee market that funds miners, open-source development, self-custody access, and education and policy outreach.
- Three nonprofits are vying for the inaugural $100,000 grant—SateNet, the 256 Foundation, and Libreria de Satoshi—with the winner to be announced after voting closes.
- MARA said the foundation begins work immediately but it has not set a fixed annual budget, and the company plans to share further funding details later.
- In March, MARA sold 15,133 BTC for about $1.1 billion to repurchase roughly $1.0 billion of convertible notes, cutting outstanding convertible debt by about 30% and increasing flexibility for initiatives beyond mining.