Bitcoin Core has appointed anonymous developer TheCharlatan as a Trusted Keys maintainer, marking the first expansion of core members with commit access since May 2023. This appointment, effective January 8, 2026, increases the number of PGP key maintainers with commit rights to six, including Marco Falke, Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, Ava Chow, and TheCharlatan. TheCharlatan, a computer science graduate from the University of Zurich, focuses on reproducible builds and verification logic, and their appointment received unanimous support from core contributors.