Stellar Community Fund

By EasyA

#SummerOfSoroban

SCF #17

$136.8K

Legacy v4.0 Award

Awarded

EasyA creates a Soroban crash course and gets devs from its huge network of 500k+ engineers building on Soroban via its app.

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What is EasyA? With 500k+ developers from top universities, companies, and projects across the US, UK, and Europe, EasyA has grown into one of the world’s most trusted and engaged developer communities in the last 3 years. EasyA developer projects have been funded by a16z, Polygon Labs, and many other top VCs. Founded by Oxbridge/Ivy League grads, EasyA works very closely with 250+ of the world’s best blockchain clubs, frequently ranks as one of the top apps on the App Store, and has been featured as Apple’s App of the Day. Our crash courses and hackathons with the world’s leading Web3 networks such as Polkadot, Algorand, Polygon, Tezos, Binance, ImmutableX, Solana, and many more attract the world’s most talented hackers, since EasyA is a powerful signal to them of quality and excellence.

The Problem: Why does Stellar need EasyA? Most developers think Stellar is only a payments/asset-transfer network. They don’t know about the huge opportunities Soroban will unlock once it brings smart contracts to Mainnet later this year. Soroban therefore needs to inspire these developers to attract them to build in the ecosystem. This is of paramount importance to securing Stellar’s position as a world-leading chain. Soroban needs to: Increase monthly active Stellar developers via EasyA’s unique, direct-to-developer channels. Teach developers about the novel use-cases Stellar is looking for, so these can inspire more developers to build on Stellar. Build a funnel of top projects for VC funding. Boost Stellar's Electric Capital score by actively increasing GitHub repository activity. Via this proposal, EasyA will target all 4 of these goals and ensure Stellar cements its reputation as a world-leading chain for all builders and innovators (not just for payments). The secondary effects of this will also be very powerful. Increasing developer activity will itself improve the perception of Stellar in metrics tracked by builders when choosing a chain (such as the Electric Capital / a16z Developer Report).

Target audience: Builders who want to found their own startups on Soroban. Web2/Web3 developers who want to learn about Soroban but just want the technical TL;DR. Students who are excited about Web3 and want to build their BIG idea on Soroban.

How: Through Stellar educational content in the EasyA mobile app, EasyA gets its unique network of the world’s best developers (in the US, UK, and Europe) learning about and building on Soroban. Via the EasyA app, we will funnel a consistent and proven pipeline of top developers into the Soroban ecosystem. These developers will be from EasyA’s huge network of 500,000+ developers at top institutions from Harvard to Meta to Google and other leading Web3 projects.

Outcome: 1,500 developers onboarded to Stellar, with 300 developers graduating.