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By Lumen Loop
Lumen Loop exists to inform, engage and empower the Stellar community through automated gathering of all Stellar ecosystem content that is categorized and made easily viewable on our web-based platform and shared through our various social integrations.
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 BuildOnStellar. 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.
You can find a copy of our pitch deck here.
Maybe in the future, but not in this submission
$113.4K
User Engagement: Reach 2,000 monthly active users with at least 30% returning monthly, within 3 months of launch.
Content Coverage: Track and categorize over 90% of active Stellar projects with automated updates to news, dev activity, and events.
Community Integration: Maintain daily automated posts across 5+ channels with consistent engagement growth.
Newsletter Reach: Grow the newsletter to 500+ subscribers within 2 months, maintaining a 35%+ open rate.
Ecosystem Impact: Improve ecosystem visibility and transparency by becoming the default resource hub for Stellar community members, developers, and SCF participants.
Sustainable Monetization: Begin generating revenue by securing at least 3 referral link or sponsored content partnerships with ecosystem projects or service providers, helping offset hosting, scraping, and AI processing costs.
Our GTM strategy focuses on activating the existing Stellar community while reaching new audiences through high-visibility content, partnerships, and platform integrations.
Collaborate with Stellar-based projects to promote their content via Lumen Loop, positioning us as their official news channel.
Continue our cross-platform content campaign (Reddit, X, Discord, YouTube, Telegram) to highlight ecosystem momentum.
Drive adoption by integrating into the official Stellar Discord and partner communities
Become a one stop shop for all things Stellar.
Launch an automated weekly newsletter that curates top Stellar news and upcoming events.
Feature exclusive interviews and ecosystem insights to increase returning users.
Continue to produce content with the foundation on a recurring basis. ex Monthly Recaps
Continue growing @StellarDataFeed and @lumenloop with curated and automated content.
Reach new audiences by expanding automated distribution to other social networks.
Optimize all indexed content for SEO to capture organic searches like “latest Stellar updates”, “top Stellar projects”, “Stellar defi projects”, etc.
We've hosted multiple live events featuring Stellar ecosystem projects on YouTube and Twitter, and recently launched a monthly news recap series in collaboration with the BuildOnStellar and StellarOrg accounts.
Our YouTube channel has grown to over 1,500 followers: youtube.com/@lumen_loop
On X/Twitter (@lumenloop), we’ve achieved 1.5M impressions, 75k engagements, and grown to 2,800 followers in the past year: x.com/lumenloop
We've posted 400+ Stellar news summaries on Reddit since May: reddit.com/user/lumen_loop
Our secondary account, @StellarDataFeed, now has 8,800+ followers, sharing daily network stats on both X and Discord. https://x.com/StellarDataFeed
We’ve deployed bots in the Stellar Dev Discord and Stellar Global to automatically post news, videos, and event updates—fully automating this content pipeline.
Lumen Loop content is also distributed through our dedicated Telegram news channel. t.me/lumenloop
We've provided on-the-ground coverage from major in-person events including Meridian, Prague, and ETHDenver, sharing video and content snippets with the community.
Working with SDF Developer Marketing to improve ecosystem coverage and partnering with developers and ambassadors to highlight their work and events.
We completed our MVP from our SCF #26 activation deliverables as follows
Rework the existing MongoDB database schema to ensure efficient data normalization and storage for a production environment. This involves optimizing the schema to handle a diverse array of content types including blogs, posts, tweets, and videos, as well as projects and events within the Stellar ecosystem.
Migrate the database to a trusted hosted solution and ensure reliable storage, backup, and accessibility for future scrapes.
How to measure completion: Published database samples for each content type can be found here.
Research and define a list of relevant sources for projects, including websites, GitHub repositories, Youtube channels and Twitter profiles.
Based on the findings, create new scraping rules to accurately collect data ensuring adherence to the terms of each source.
How to measure completion: repo of projects with relevant information and scrape feeds. See here.
Prove out the integration and functionality with a barebones front end
Alpha front end will include news from a limited set of sources, project tracker for at least 3 projects, and a limited source event calendar
Ability to easily view articles by date, category or related Project
Full analytics implementation to track user interactions and inform future enhancements
Stand up a suitable hosting environment for medium scale traffic
How to measure completion: website
Standardize and enrich project entries in the ecosystem database by researching and assigning missing attributes (e.g., tags, regions, tokens, images) in coordination with SCF and working group. Simultaneously, develop sync mechanism between the Lumen Loop admin dashboard and the ecosystem DB, allowing for efficient editing and live updates across platforms.
How to measure completion: video of sync from within the admin dashboard and updated project attributes in db.
Estimate: 4 weeks, 14.4k (40 hrs x 4 x 90)
Automate finding relevant data for new projects from public data sources and updating the ecosystem db. ex. New SCF round recipients.
Automate monitoring sites for changes in relevant info and updating the ecosystem db without being reliant on website structure.
How to measure completion: video
Estimate: 3 weeks, 10.8k (40 hrs x 3 x 90)
Streamline event tracking by automating the discovery and categorization of Stellar-related events from Discord, SCF deadlines, ambassador programs, and Twitter activity. This includes developing standard descriptions for recurring event types, detecting duplicates, and automatically adding qualifying events to the ecosystem calendar without manual curation.
Twitter integration will parse posts from ecosystem project accounts to identify announcements, events, or resources and auto-post to the platform and relevant community channels. Will use twitter accounts from the ecosystem db. Ex. Aquarius announces new swap features on Twitter and we are able to auto add and parse it as a news item within our platform.
How to measure completion: Events are visible on the ecosystem calendar. Demo video.
Estimate: 5 weeks, 18k (40 hrs x 5 x 90)
Design and Implementation of responsive front-end UI (desktop & mobile)
Development of visual design elements, including branding, icons, and graphic assets
Enhance AI-driven content categorization and summarization capabilities
Implement advanced content filtering options (date, category, tags, associated projects, search term)
How to measure completion: Implementation on website
Estimate: 9 weeks, 32.4k (40 hrs x 9 x 90)
Expand tracked projects to include the entire Stellar ecosystem
Add ability for projects to easily update their Project information
Add sync functionality to keep Stellar Ecosystem Database up-to-date with website data
How to measure completion: Implementation on website
Estimate: 4 weeks, 14.4k (40 hrs x 4 x 90)
Expand calendar into an advanced events calendar system with functionality for subscribing, filtering, and event notifications
How to measure completion: Implementation visible on website
Estimated time: 1.5 weeks, 5.4k (40 hrs x 5 x 90)
Support new social networks in the automation pipeline for sharing of ecosystem updates. Ex. bluesky/farcaster
How to measure completion: links to accounts on other platforms with posted content.
Estimated time: 1 week, 3.6k (40 hrs x 1 x 90)
Automate the process of aggregating content and events from our platform and outputting an organized/easy to read weekly digest.
How to measure completion: newsletter is posted on social/website
Estimated time: 1 week, 3.6k (40 hrs x 1 x 90)
Optimization of front-end and backend code for performance and load handling
Deployment of advanced caching and CDN solutions
How to measure completion: Quick loading of assets on website
Estimated time: 1 week, 3.6k (40 hrs x 1 x 90)
Complete QA testing across browsers and devices
Pre-launch beta testing phase with community engagement
Development and implementation of backup and disaster recovery procedures
How to measure completion: website easily digestible in various browsers/devices
Estimated time: 2 weeks, 7.2k (40 hrs x 2 x 90)
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
Jeremy Lockhart
Raphael Fortin
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