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+## Funding
+
+This work is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate under contract 70RSAT24T00000011 (Open-Source and Privacy-Preserving Digital Credentialing Infrastructure).
+Through this contract, SpruceID’s open-source libraries will be used to build privacy-preserving digital credential wallets and verifier capabilities to support standards while ensuring safe usage and interoperability across sectors like finance, healthcare, and various cross-border applications.
+To learn more about this work, [read more here](https://spruceid.com/customer-highlight/dhs-highlight) .