Three builders discuss how Stellar Light, Stellar Passport, and Lumen Loop work together to solve the ecosystem's core visibility problem: new developers struggle to find projects and prove their contributions. The three tools form a complementary stack addressing onboarding, participation tracking, and signal aggregation.
Three ecosystem builders—Boxy (Stellar Light), Bastion (Stellar Passport), and Raf (Lumen Loop)—discuss how their complementary tools address the ecosystem's core discovery and participation problem. When new developers arrive at Stellar, they face a steep onboarding curve: finding active projects, understanding participation opportunities, and proving their contributions. Stellar Light indexes dApps and tools for visibility, Stellar Passport gamifies participation with point-based engagement tracking and passkey-secured onboarding, and Lumen Loop aggregates ecosystem signals and news. The three tools create a connected flow: onboard in Passport, discover projects in Stellar Light, stay informed via Lumen Loop. The builders emphasize collaboration over competition, with each tool building on the others' data to lower barriers for incoming builders.