Bitcoin does not need. Blurt at this stage doesn't seem to need it either. As it is not known what the Blurt Foundation is doing at the moment, as they don't share any reports, and apparently not the funds either, since the BF developers have to ask for funds from the DAO.

And we are not talking about some new project independent of BF. We are talking here about the basic payment of a programmer. Megadrive has pledged to do this and doesn't (unless tekraze just wants to get as much out of each source as possible - I take it, since on witness node they also want funds despite witness node getting paid to own witness node).