Svmuu News: On January 8, 2026, the Bitcoin core development team promoted anonymous developer TheCharlatan (sedited) to Trusted Keys maintainer, joining the ranks of Marco Falke,Gloria Zhao, Ryan Ofsky, Hennadii Stepanov, and Ava Chow, becoming the sixth Trusted Keys holder. This marks the first expansion of the core membership with commit access to the main branch since May 2023.It is reported that TheCharlatan graduated from the University of Zurich with a degree in computer science and focuses primarily on reproducible builds and verification logic; his appointment received unanimous support in discussions among core contributors. (Protos)