DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Stellar Development Foundation showcases four Stellar Community Fund projects building on Soroban: Qolaq (mutual aid platform), Comet (weighted AMM), FxDAO (decentralized borrowing), and XycLoans (flash loans protocol). Each demonstrates innovative use cases for Soroban smart contracts on Futurenet.
Three Soroban projects born from hackathons and adoption programs showcase the ecosystem's early momentum. Sorobix, Chaincerts, and useSoroban.app demonstrate how developer tools and community support are accelerating smart contract adoption on Stellar.
The Stellar Newsletter highlights the Soroban Adoption Fund with $100M in opportunities, including a $10M Stellar Community Fund program for Soroban projects and developer initiatives like Sorobanathon. It covers UNHCR's nomination for blockchain impact award using Stellar for aid in Ukraine, partnerships like Beans App with MoneyGram, and technical updates on Pull Mode and Ubuntu upgrades. Community events, policy priorities, and developer resources are also featured.
The Stellar Community Fund launches SCF Startup Camp, a quarterly 5-day virtual bootcamp supporting up to 40 teams building on Stellar and Soroban. The first camp runs April 17-21, 2023, with finalists competing for $30,000 in XLM prizes and access to $150,000 in SCF Awards funding.
Stellar Development Foundation announced a $10 million Soroban-focused awards program through the Stellar Community Fund, offering developers up to $150,000 in XLM to build smart contracts, DeFi protocols, and dApps on Soroban ahead of its mainnet launch.
Stellar Community Fund 4.0 expands to $100M with Soroban focus, offering $10k-150k awards every 4 weeks. First deadline is March 12, with five rounds before S…
Stellar Development Foundation announced a $10 million Soroban-focused awards program through the Stellar Community Fund, opening February 13 to support devel…
The Stellar Newsletter highlights recent ecosystem developments including Soroban smart contracts live on Futurenet with a $100M developer fund and Sorobanathon. It covers Meridian 2022 on-demand sessions, Stellar Quest Live Series 5, bridge bounty grants, and the new Anchor Platform. Additional updates include stablecoin launches, SDF investments in NetXD and Wave, and community fund discussions.
Vitreous, a transparent fundraising platform built on Stellar, won SCF #10. The platform uses Stellar's low fees and anchor network to enable global fundraising with community-enforced accountability through public transaction visibility.
Beans, a non-custodial wallet enabling zero-fee international payments on Stellar, shares insights on winning the Stellar Community Fund Round 10. The app leverages Stellar's fee sponsorship and on/off ramps to simplify cross-border transactions for mainstream users.
MYKOBO announces a strategic partnership with Beans, a Stellar Community Fund #10 winner, to support EURC Euro on and off ramps. This enables Beans users to deposit/withdraw Euros easily and access IBANs soon. Both companies are built on Stellar for cheaper, faster cross-border payments, with integration launching in early Q4 2022.
BP Ventures won a $125,000 grant from the Stellar Community Fund for its solution enabling FinTechs to leverage USDC on the Stellar blockchain for payments. The platform integrates with MoneyGram's USDC services for seamless cross-border remittances. This highlights growing adoption of Stellar and USDC in the remittance industry.
Answerly closes SCF panel voting with milestones from three years of self-funded operation: a community of 50,000 members, 20,000 active users, and token listings on five major exchanges. Founders Raza Rizvi and Zain Haider seek SCF support to accelerate Stellar DEX integration and build partnerships across the Stellar ecosystem.
Litemint, a Stellar Community Fund winner, shares lessons from applying to SCF twice: identifying community gaps, engaging with the ecosystem, and launching products iteratively. The gaming and NFT platform has grown to 1,400+ NFTs and 65,000+ tradable units on Stellar.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced updates to the Stellar Community Fund for 2021, including two funding rounds distributing 7M XLM total, new voting mechanics with budget self-selection, and a community-driven panelist selection process.
Stellar Community Fund seed round №1 concluded with 8 projects receiving 5M XLM in grants. Winners include COINQVEST, Anclap, OptionBlox/YieldBlox, Task.io, Litemint, Leaf Global Fintech, Mojoflower, and Blocknify. Two additional rounds planned for 2021 with process improvements including Discord migration and budget requests.
Two Stellar Community Fund finalists, Mojoflower and Blocknify, showcase innovative use cases beyond payments: Mojoflower tokenizes share ownership for Icelandic regulators, while Blocknify uses Stellar as an immutable notary for e-signatures and document verification.
The Stellar Community Fund manager shares six strategies for winning SCF grants: serve your audience, pick the right fund tier, exceed guidelines, engage the community, emphasize marketing, and keep iterating. Success requires balancing technical quality with presentation and community involvement.
The Stellar Development Foundation launched Stellar Community Fund 2.0, splitting the grant program into two funds (Seed and Lab) and introducing a nomination panel plus quadratic voting to address voter fatigue and improve project selection fairness.
The Stellar Winter Roundup 2019 recaps key achievements and events from December through October, including ecosystem expansion, the Meridian conference, lumen distribution updates, and new partnerships. Highlights feature SDF's new mandate, Horizon and Core releases, Stellar Community Fund voting, and integrations like Travala.com and BitGo support for XLM. It also announces new hires and job opportunities at SDF.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced a major restructuring at the Meridian event in Mexico City, burning 55 billion XLM to reduce total supply to 50 billion. They ended large giveaway programs and redirected remaining lumens to core development, ecosystem support, use-case investments, and targeted user acquisition. This new mandate focuses SDF on making Stellar the global payments standard through efficient, transparent spending.
The Stellar Monthly Roundup for September 2019 covers ecosystem updates including collaborations, AMAs, new hires at SDF, developer releases, community fund proposals, and ecosystem projects like Cowrie Systems and Bitbond. Highlights include the upcoming Meridian conference in Mexico City and a proposal to disable inflation. New features on stellarbeat.io and protocol upgrades prepare the network for future improvements.