On November 20, 2025, Bitfury announced a staged $1 billion initiative to fund technologies it described as ethical and allocated $200 million for the first year. The initiative targets four areas: self-sovereign identity, quantum computing and security, transparent decentralized systems, and AI. Bitfury said the first-year funds will support pilots and early validation and that remaining funds will reserve for follow-on R&D and scaling as standards and market needs evolve. The company cited hardware design experience, data center capacity, and AI and blockchain infrastructure as execution assets and stated it will provide co-development grants, strategic equity checks, and infrastructure credits tied to compute and data center services. For self-sovereign identity the program will fund portable, user-controlled identity systems, KYC-compliant onboarding flows, credential management for employment and education, and cross-platform access models with privacy controls. For quantum and security the program will fund research into quantum-resilient cryptography and compute infrastructure aimed at hardening blockchain and wallet security and accelerating data-heavy workloads such as analytics and AI training. For transparent decentralized systems and AI the initiative will fund auditable on-chain systems, AI built on verifiable data provenance and governance, and deployments spanning nodes, validators, and AI services integrated with on-chain audit layers. Bitfury said it will pursue partnerships with universities, standards bodies, and regulated enterprises and listed target programs for builders and investors including SSI wallets and verifiable credential startups, audit layers for on-chain state and AI outputs, post-quantum tooling and cryptography projects, and partnerships combining grants, equity, and infrastructure credits. The company identified risks and open questions including unpredictable quantum timelines, evolving identity standards and cross-border compliance, and execution factors such as partner selection, pilot design, and standards participation. Bitfury said near-term milestones to watch include portfolio choices for the first $200 million tranche, announced pilots in SSI and quantum-resilient security, and partnerships with universities, standards bodies, and regulated enterprises, and it advised builders to prepare proposals that map to SSI, quantum resilience, and verifiable systems with measurable milestones and regulatory alignment. 

Source: https://theweb3.news/ai/bitfury-1b-ethical-tech/

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