CAMBRIDGE, UK and NEW YORK, NY — July 28, 2026 -- Riverlane, the world leader in quantum error correction (QEC), and the Unitary Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to scaling the open-source quantum ecosystem, today announced the launch of the Deltakit Community Fund. This new rolling, quarterly initiative is designed to support external software contributors building essential, production-grade features for Deltakit, Riverlane’s open-source QEC development toolkit.

June’s unitaryHACK26 put on by Unitary Foundation shattered records, uniting over 1,000 developers to close 165 bounties and earn nearly $18,000. Now, the Deltakit Community Fund is channeling that explosive energy into a sustained, structured pipeline for critical software development. The fund provides developer awards ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 for small and medium-scoped feature implementations, targeting foundational areas like bounds for error budgeting, threshold computation, and ZX graph benchmark library.

"unitaryHACK showed us there's real appetite among developers to work on the foundational infrastructure quantum computing needs. The Deltakit Community Fund helps turn that momentum into something more lasting. By supporting contributors working on areas like error budgeting and threshold computation, we're helping build both the toolkit and the community around it." - Marco Ghibaudi, VP Engineering at Riverlane

The program will be managed via the Unitary Foundation’s proven open-source merit frameworks. Riverlane will provide technical oversight, define explicit project criteria, and review milestone completions to ensure seamless feature adoption back into the main Deltakit package.

“Quantum's open source community has already established itself as a foundational pillar, ensuring the technology can realize its full potential. We're thrilled to partner with Riverlane to increase the support for this community, to better recognize their efforts, and to create stronger QEC tools together.” - Ben Castanon, CEO at Unitary Foundation