SCF #29 Round Recap

Gemma Dobbs
Stellar Community
Published in
6 min readAug 21, 2024

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open-application awards program that draws on community input to support developers and startups building on Stellar and Soroban.

Congratulations to all submitters on your achievement. We received 131 Activation and Community Award submissions, 63 of which submitted for their first ever SCF awards.

Thank you to all submitters and reviewers for your hard work.

We awarded $2,195,557 worth of XLM to 39 submitters in total for SCF #29.

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Activation Awards

Awarded a total of $895,598 worth of XLM* to 24 projects

Projects new to SCF can request an Activation Award up to $50,000 worth of XLM* for ~1–1.5 month projects. The Activation Award is intended to support the completion of the Project’s MVP of their Stellar/Soroban integration and serves as an opportunity for the recipient(s) to demonstrate commitment to the overall Project. Learn more in the SCF Handbook.

Calimero Network — $25,000 worth of XLM*
Calimero Network is an innovative framework for building self-sovereign application protocols and private data sharing.

Copperx — Gateway and Payout — $50,000 worth of XLM*
CopperX is building next-gen financial tools for businesses and consumers to help accept and manage payments using stablecoins.

EA Kazi — $36,000 worth of XLM*
EaKazi combines and decentralizes Udemy and Freelancer, allowing easy access to freelancers with verifiable credentials.

Globachain Payment Ecosystem — $42,500 worth of XLM*
Globachain provides on and off-ramps for individuals and businesses, as well as merchant services and cross border payments for businesses.

HouseAfrica’s Sytemap — $35,000 worth of XLM*
Sytemap is powering Africa’s land ownership with technology.

Lantern Finance XLM Expansion — $48,483 worth of XLM*
Lantern is expanding their infrastructure to enable clients to borrow USD and stablecoins against their XLM.

SendIN — $47,500 worth of XLM*
SendIN makes US to India money transfers easy, cheap & lightning fast.

Silicore — $31,000 worth of XLM*
Silicore is democratizing knowledge of distinct anchor benefits.

Soroban Command Insights (SCI) — $35,000 worth of XLM*
SCI is a real-time monitoring and visualization system for Soroban CLI commands on the Stellar network, powered by the ELK stack.

SoroStarter: Soroban LaunchPad — $47,175 worth of XLM*
Sorostarter is a secured and decentralized IDO and fundraising platform for Soroban and the Stellar ecosystem.

Stellar Attestation Service — $37,500 worth of XLM*
Stellar Attestation Service provides a Soroban framework for attesting to digital interactions on the Stellar network.

Stellar Women Bootcamp — $14,400 worth of XLM*
Stellar Women Bootcamp is a 4 week, gamified educational program designed to onboard Latin women into DeFi basics, with a focus on the Stellar ecosystem.

Stellarpro.dev — $34,700 worth of XLM*
Stellarpro.dev is an education platform for post-beginner developers wanting to grow their skills to intermediate and advanced levels.

THE HUB Citizens Portal — $46,500 worth of XLM*
THE HUB Citizens Portal is an interoperable avatar generation platform, now on Stellar.

West African Ambassadors (WAA) — $47,500 worth of XLM*
The WAA Program empowers builders to tackle regional issues through blockchain, focusing on education, collaboration, and adoption.

Lul — Serving the Unbanked — $20,500 worth of XLM*
Lul is enabling financial inclusion for refugees and the unbanked in Africa with remittances, ROSCA, virtual cards, and other services.

Mystic — RWA lending market — $47,000 worth of XLM*
Mystic is building a lending market for RWAs, which lets borrowers take out stablecoins using their tokenized real-world assets.

POMA: Engage-to-earn Platform — $14,000 worth of XLM*
POMA is a platform where developers receive a cashback through a smart contract, distributed based on their engagement.

Soroban AIssistant — $42,500 worth of XLM*
Soroban AIssistant is a Soroban AI powered Assistant specifically designed to accelerate the conceptualization and development of smart contracts.

The Starship Soroban — $10,000 worth of XLM*
The Starship Soroban is a bilingual (Turkish and English) gamified platform to teach Soroban smart contracts through interactive modules and quizzes.

AutoAction — $50,000 worth of XLM*
AutoAction is a smart contract automation tool for implementing custom logic, time-based, and event-based automated transactions.

Chrysalis — $49,040 worth of XLM*
Chrysalis turns Stellar assets into fluid opportunities, offering seamless liquidity and staking rewards on one dynamic platform.

Hoops Finance — $50,000 worth of XLM*
Hoops Finance is an analytics and DeFi platform for risk-adjusted investment in Soroban liquidity pools.

Switchly.com — Bridge and DEX — $46,000 worth of XLM*
Switchly is a decentralized, cross-chain protocol for stablecoin bridging and exchange.

Community Awards

Awarded a total of $1,299,959 worth of XLM* to 15 projects

If the Activation Award is granted and the deliverables of the Activation Award submission are completed, the Activation Award recipient(s) can then request a Community Award (up to $100,000 worth of XLM* for 2–3 months project). Projects are able to request additional Community Awards according to the resubmission guidelines.

CLOB DEX — $72,019 worth of XLM*
CLOB DEX is a cutting-edge DEX on Soroban, offering automated orders, on-chain settlement and limitless trading.

NearX — Dev Educational Program — $65,000 worth of XLM*
Soroban Samba is a two month-long event in Brazil dedicated to onboarding developers and teams to build on Soroban.

0xAuth — $90,000 worth of XLM*
0xAuth will enable seamless compliance and interoperability for tokenized funds.

Balanced to Stellar — Relay 2 — $72,000 worth of XLM*
Balanced is a cross-chain DEX and stablecoin that enables native cross-chain DeFi primitives for any ecosystem.

Beans app — Cards & passkeys — $99,740 worth of XLM*
Beans is adding cards, passkeys and DeFi to the Beans non-custodial wallet.

Bitwave Enterprise Payments — $100,000 worth of XLM*
Bitwave will deploy B2B custodial & onchain payments using Stellar smart contracts, Coinbase Prime and Oracle Netsuite.

BondHive:OnChain Fixed Deposit — $100,000 worth of XLM*
Bond Hive simplifies on-chain savings by offering fixed returns by tokenizing carry trade, making complex futures easy for everyone.

BorderDollar — Invoice Finance — $95,000 worth of XLM*
BorderDollar provides investors with opportunities to invest in real-world assets through SME cross-border trade invoice financing.

Digicus — from MVP to 1.0 — $100,000 worth of XLM*
Digicus is Scratch for smart contracts, simplifying contract creation & modification via an intuitive, Lego-like graphical interface.

InfStones — $100,000 worth of XLM*
InfStones will provide Horizon and Soroban API developer access via an auto-scaling cluster with a freemium endpoint and support structure.

LOAM — Grow Ambitious Dapps — $92,900 worth of XLM*
Loam is an all-in-one development toolkit designed to facilitate the creation of both backend and frontend components of decentralized applications on Stellar.

Reflector DAO — $100,000 worth of XLM*
Reflector DAO is a DAO-governed oracle with public price feed and customizable subscriptions for Stellar DeFi.

Solarkraft — $67,000 worth of XLM*
Solarkraft provides runtime monitoring for Soroban smart contracts to aid developers and auditors in finding critical bugs before and in production.

Decentrio: Soroban Full-Featured Indexer — $100,000 worth of XLM*
Decentrio is introducing a full-featured and high-performance Soroban indexer that supports friendly JSON data.

Unalivio: USDC payments for LatAm stores — $49,300 worth of XLM*
Unalivio allows merchants in Latin America to perform digital sales and get paid in USDC.

A big congratulations to these standout projects! Your creativity and innovation have truly made an impression, and we’re eager to see the positive impact you’ll bring to the Stellar ecosystem. Stay tuned for details on how we will be working together to support and nurture your ideas.

*The USD valuation of the Award in XLM is calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on the day of payment as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker XLMUSD_RR) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR).

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