A technologically ambitious project such as Qortal requires a great amount of development time. Most, if not all Qortal developers have a day job and passionately spend much of their free time working on Qortal development.
For those interested in making a financial contribution to overall Qortal development it is possible to send some QORT to the DevFund or QWfYVQfuz2rVskYkpkVvLxL3kUPmBgKhHV.
For those interested in supporting further development of Qnect it is possible to send some QORT to Qnect or QaYNy23hTzJSTp1TzyLLBgPp27sjsKByL2.
The following developers have made contributions that made the development of Qnect possible:
CalDescent is Qortal's main core developer. Much of the Qortal infrastructure such as the chat, minting, trading and financial features we enjoy are either developed by or actively maintained by him . You can transfer some QORT to CalDescent or QS7K9EsSDeCdb7T8kzZaFNGLomNmmET2Dr if you appreciate his efforts.
AlphaX is Qortal's main UI developer and has graciously set up 10 public nodes for us to use. You can transfer some QORT to AlphaX or QiTygNmENd8bjyiaK1WwgeX9EF1H8Kapfq if you appreciate his efforts.
Traxo is the creator of Exqlorer.com and Qortal Mobile Wallet. He has also graciously set up 2 public nodes for us to use. Traxo's nodes are the ones used by Qnect to fetch user avatars from the blockchain. You can transfer some QORT to Traxo or QccMu8uBVyXZ8kncke5Dow8sGcybqYTGzR if you appreciate his efforts.