The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) #33 round awarded $1,033,620 in XLM to 14 projects across Build Awards. Highlights include Stellarcarbon for carbon offsetting, CodeLnPay for cross-border payments, and Warmancer: Black Friday for blockchain gaming. The round introduced SCF 6.1 updates streamlining submissions for future rounds.
SCF #33 received 92 submissions, with 62 first-time applicants, awarding 14 Build Awards totaling $1,033,620 XLM. Projects funded span carbon offsetting (Stellarcarbon), cross-border payments (CodeLnPay, PeerPesa), oracles (Soroban Optimistic Oracle), payroll (Outbounder), gaming (Warmancer), match-funding (Artizen), real estate tokenization (Verseprop), crowdfunding (The Give Hub), fitness incentives (Stride), developer tools (Solang Playground, StellarBroker, SorobanHooks), and stablecoin payments (BlindPay). This round marked the transition to SCF 6.1, simplifying applications with overviews, videos, and team details, routing eligible projects to Kickstart or Build tracks. The updates aim to enhance efficiency while upholding innovation standards in the Stellar ecosystem.