Stellar Community Fund

By Lumen Loop

Lumen Loop

SCF #26

$29.3K

Legacy v5.0 Activation Award

Awarded

Lumen Loop aggregates the latest news, projects and events from the Stellar ecosystem into one central hub.

Products & Services

To keep up-to-date on Stellar ecosystem news and developments, you'd have to follow websites and social accounts for numerous outlets such as Coindesk, The Block, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Ledger Insights, CNBC, and Forbes, just to name a few. You'd also need to follow official blogs and social channels from existing ecosystem participants such as Cheesecake Labs and Soroban Domains, and everything in between. And video? Hopefully, you're an avid user of various video platforms because you'll also need to subscribe to updates from platforms like YouTube and Twitch. Adding to this complexity, navigating SDF-specific sources adds another layer of difficulty, requiring a meticulous approach to stay informed about Stellar's protocol updates and announcements through the official Stellar website, SDF blog entries, Developer Discord, and official social media channels like StellarOrg and SorobanOfficial. Additionally, tracking progress and updates for the incredibly diverse ecosystem projects presents a unique challenge. From official blogs to GitHub repositories and Twitter announcements, it is incredibly hard to see who is actively building on Stellar and where to find more information about them. Being unable to efficiently find and view this information leads to the perception of lack of innovation on the network. This fragmentation not only makes it challenging to stay informed but also creates barriers to entry for those new to Stellar. Vital events and discussions are often missed due to the lack of centralized notifications and the diverse rules of engagement across platforms.

Experience the convenience of navigating the Stellar network's dynamic landscape through one centralized web hub - Lumen Loop. Lumen Loop is designed to streamline the Stellar blockchain network's vast information ecosystem into an organized, accessible format. Lumen Loop automatically scrapes the web for the latest Stellar ecosystem news, updates, and developments. The scraper then uses AI to categorize and tag the content, as well as provide shortened, or "TLDR", excerpts for searchability and ease of access. For example, want to see just educational content? We’ve got you covered! Looking for protocol updates? No problem! We’ve got a category for that! Spanish content? Check! Lumen Loop also includes a project tracker where each Stellar project has a detail page with summaries, development activity, social metrics and news, making it easy for the community to follow developments. Let’s say you are a SCF reviewer or voter and you want to know if a project has been active in the ecosystem. Head to the project page, and we’ll have a breakdown on their social and dev activity! Lumen Loop’s project tracker increases project transparency and accountability. Beyond news discovery, Lumen Loop offers a centralized events calendar that details Stellar-related live events, meetups, and conferences from a variety of sources with essential information for easy community participation. Subscribe to our calendar and you won’t miss out! This ecosystem-wide calendar will keep people informed and boost engagement within the ecosystem. Finally, once Lumen Loop finds new information about projects or a new event it automatically posts summaries to various communities on platforms like Discord, Reddit and X/Twitter. This helps promote projects and grow the ecosystem - by keeping everyone in the loop.

We create scrape rules to monitor Stellar project activity on different platforms. We normalize the discovered data from an enormous list of sources into one database. We use AI to give tags and categorize. This includes a manual review process. We push discovered content to our web platform where it's easily browsed by category, tag, project, etc. and also update the events page and the individual project tracker pages if applicable. We automatically push summaries of the discovered content to different social platforms.

The basic idea of Lumen Loop is as follows: Centralized Information Hub: Aggregates Stellar ecosystem news, updates, and project developments into one platform. AI-Categorized Streams: Uses AI to organize content into searchable streams, such as educational content or developer updates, or even SCF project news. Comprehensive Event Calendar: Offers a centralized calendar detailing Stellar-related events for easy community participation. Detailed Project Tracker: Features individual pages for Stellar projects with summaries, development activity, social metrics, and a project news feed. Automated Social Media Sharing: Promotes ecosystem projects and updates by automatically posting discovered content to platforms like Discord, Reddit, and Twitter. Enhances Ecosystem Transparency: Increases project transparency and accountability through detailed activity breakdowns. Community Growth and Engagement: Aims to support community growth and project visibility within the Stellar ecosystem.

Requested Budget

$29.3K

Team

Raphael Fortin

Teacher and Web Developer

Raphael Fortin is a Stellar enthusiast and seasoned Computer Science teacher at Edmonton Catholic Schools, with a strong background in web development, network operations, and a proven track record as the owner of WHYEG Designs and as an mod, poster, and content creator in the Stellar ecosystem.

Twitter: @rawritude

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-fortin-305bb688

Discord: ra.ph
Reddit: raphlf

Jayrome

Web Developer

Jayrome has been a respected member of the Stellar community since 2017 and a web developer for over 20 years. Jayrome specializes in providing elegant solutions to complex problems and is known for having a keen eye for the details.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamjayrome

Discord: jay.rome

Reddit: 4bidden450