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The Liquid Network is a Bitcoin sidechain enabling fast, confidential settlement and digital asset issuance through a federated consensus model.
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18 current maintainers15 active leads5 new active leads3 lead step-downs1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

18

Current maintainers

15

Active leads

5

New active leads

3

Lead step-downs

0

Lead movements

1

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/elementsproject

Maintainers (48)

@ddustinCurrent employee
PRs merged
1
Internal authors supported
1
Currently active authors
1
First merge
Jun 30, 2026
Last merge
Jun 30, 2026
Active lead

Internal authors whose PRs they merged

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Maintainer Movements (18)

@stevenroose moved lead merge authority to ZeroSync Association.

Confirmed Jan 2, 2026 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Oct 2, 2025 · First destination merge Dec 11, 2025

@vincenzopalazzo moved lead merge authority to Ark Labs.

Confirmed Aug 18, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge Dec 10, 2024 · First destination merge Aug 18, 2025

@nepet moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed May 19, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Feb 19, 2024 · First destination merge Apr 10, 2024

@RCasatta moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Apr 15, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Jan 15, 2024 · First destination merge Mar 15, 2024

@shesek moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Feb 13, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Mar 26, 2021 · First destination merge Feb 13, 2024

@jonasnick moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Jun 29, 2022 · Observed

Last source merge Apr 30, 2020 · First destination merge Jun 29, 2022

@martindale moved lead merge authority to Portal To Bitcoin.

Confirmed Apr 13, 2022 · Observed

Last source merge May 7, 2017 · First destination merge Apr 13, 2022

@greenaddress moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Feb 25, 2021 · Observed

Last source merge Nov 25, 2020 · First destination merge Jan 2, 2021

@instagibbs moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Jul 24, 2020 · Observed

Last source merge Feb 26, 2020 · First destination merge Jul 24, 2020

@shesek moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Mar 21, 2020 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Oct 29, 2019 · First destination merge Mar 21, 2020

@jonasnick moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Aug 18, 2019 · Observed

Last source merge Mar 4, 2019 · First destination merge Aug 18, 2019

@shesek moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Jul 13, 2019 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Apr 13, 2019 · First destination merge Jun 24, 2019

@kallewoof moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Jan 20, 2019 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Aug 6, 2018 · First destination merge Jan 20, 2019

@greenaddress moved lead merge authority to Blockstream.

Confirmed Nov 19, 2018 · Observed

Last source merge Jun 25, 2018 · First destination merge Nov 19, 2018

@sipa moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Mar 27, 2018 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Mar 14, 2016 · First destination merge Mar 27, 2018

@gmaxwell moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Feb 6, 2018 · Observed

Last source merge Jun 10, 2015 · First destination merge Feb 6, 2018

@kallewoof moved lead merge authority to Bitcoin Core.

Confirmed Dec 13, 2017 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Apr 28, 2017 · First destination merge Dec 13, 2017