How to succeed at the Stellar Community Fund

As a former competitor turned fund designer, I get asked all the time: what makes a prize winning entry? In this post I’d like to outline six areas of focus that will give you the best chance at succeeding in the Stellar Community Fund.

Decentralized Community Funding

The Stellar Community Fund is a pretty unique grants program: it gives the broader Stellar community the opportunity to vote on which projects deserve XLM rewards. After five rounds of experience and tons of feedback from participants and voters, we've decided to make some big changes to the SCF to make it more fun, more fair, and better suited to the needs of the community. What are those changes? Why did we make them? Tune in August 28th at 1:00 PM EDT to hear Tyler and Kolten tell the story of the great SCF restructuring.

Stellar Community Fund 2.0

After five rounds of experience and tons of feedback from participants and voters, we’ve decided to make some big changes to the SCF to make it more fun, more fair, and better suited to the needs of the community.

Introducing Stellar Community Fund 2.0

By nature of open source, the Stellar ecosystem and community can collaborate to build a truly decentralized network, finding diverse solutions one can’t discover alone. To accomplish our vision of greater financial inclusion for all, we at SDF have thought a lot about how to best support our ecosystem and community in reaching this goal.

Stellar Community Fund Round 5 Finals Postmortem

Well, the final results for SCF #5 have been sorted out and let me begin with a big long YIKERS. Remember in the nomination round how we had a record turnout of 671 voters and had to remove all but 295 of them? Well in this final round we not only matched — but smashed — that record. 4,137 unique Keybase accounts showed up last week to vote in our final round. Unfortunately, we had to remove 4,058 of them.

Stellar Community Fund: Round 4 Results

Every three months, the broader Stellar community is given the opportunity to vote for their favorite project proposals. The winners split a pool of 3,000,000 lumens based on the percentage of the final vote they received.

Stellar Community Fund: Round 3 Results

Every three months, the broader Stellar community is given the opportunity to vote for their favorite project proposals. The winners split a pool of 3,000,000 lumens based on the percentage of the final vote they received.

Stellar Community Fund #2: The Results

It’s official. We’ve completed the second round of the Stellar Community Fund. The community has spoken, the votes have been tallied, and as is customary, the results have been delivered (below).

Stellar Community Fund: Round 1 Winners

The final round of voting for the inaugural Stellar Community Fund has come to a close. Below you will find the list of winners in order of placement. Congratulations to everyone who participated. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback throughout this process!