Community-
Powered Funding

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.

320M

XLM Awarded

500

Submissions Awarded

80

Startup Camp Teams

2.1K

Community Members

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blockchain development.

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Apply for Awards up to $100K in XLM* to build your project on Stellar and Soroban. Strengthen the ecosystem’s infrastructure, lead the next wave of DeFi, and build solutions for those who need it most.

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Latest News and Updates

Building SCF's New Voting Mechanism

Nov 9 2023

Community Medium

Introducing Neural Quorum Governance

Nov 9 2023

BlockScience Medium

A New Era of Community Empowerment

Nov 9 2023

SDF Blog

Stellar Community Fund Recap: Soroban Infrastructure

Jun 28 2023

SDF Blog

Empowering Global DeFi Innovators: Recap of the first SCF Startup Camp of 2023

May 29 2023

SDF Blog

Stellar Community Fund: Submission Best Practices

May 9 2023

SDF Blog

SCF Recap: Financial Innovation Powered by Soroban

Apr 30 2023

SDF Blog

Building on Soroban: Three Teams' Journeys with Smart Contracts

Mar 22 2023

SDF Blog

Building on Soroban: Three Teams' Journeys with Smart Contracts

Mar 22 2023

SDF Blog

Stellar Community Fund 4.0: Bigger, Better, Faster, Soroban!

Feb 7 2023

SDF Blog

SCF#11 Startup Bootcamp — The Results!

Nov 18 2022

Community Medium

SCF#11 — Community Discussion (officially) begins!

Oct 28 2022

Community Medium

The Future of Community Funding

Oct 7 2022

Community Medium

The History of the Stellar Community Fund

Sep 30 2022

Community Medium

How SCF Winner Vitreous Makes Fundraising Transparent with Blockchain

Sep 18 2022

SDF Blog

SCF#11 Startup Bootcamp — Why You Should Participate

Sep 2 2022

Community Medium

How SCF Winner Beans is Perfecting Payments

Aug 30 2022

SDF Blog

SCF Winner LINK Doubles Down on Digital Financial Infrastructure

Aug 22 2022

SDF Blog

Submissions open for SCF#11!

Aug 10 2022

Community Medium

Announcing the winners of SCF#10

Jul 5 2022

Community Medium

SCF #10 — Candidate Pitches

Jun 23 2022

Community Medium

SCF #10 — Community Discussion begins!

Jun 7 2022

Community Medium

Build your Track Record in the Stellar Ecosystem

May 19 2022

Community Medium

How Winning the Stellar Community Fund Opened New Doors for Alfred Pay

May 8 2022

SDF Blog

Looking Back on the Stellar Community Fund with Leaf Global Fintech

Aug 4 2021

SDF Blog

Looking Back on the Stellar Community Fund with Litemint

Jul 28 2021

SDF Blog

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SCF #22 - Project Pitches

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*The USD valuation of the budget request in XLM will be 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). Learn more in the SCF Handbook.

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320M

500

80

2.1K

Join hundreds of innovators pioneering blockchain development.

Community-
Powered Funding

Join hundreds of innovators pioneering
blockchain development.