Tyler Vanderhoeven presents Stellar Quest, a gamified technical onboarding platform launching Monday with eight challenges designed to teach developers about Stellar through hands-on tasks, XLM prizes, and collectible badges.
Tyler Vanderhoeven, ecosystem evangelist at the Stellar Development Foundation, introduces Stellar Quest, a gamified learning platform built to bridge the gap between traditional developers and the Stellar ecosystem. The application launches Monday with Series 1 containing eight challenges released on Mondays and Fridays through November 6. Participants complete technical tasks on testnet, earn XLM prizes for early completion, and unlock collectible badges as NFTs. The backend uses Cloudflare Workers and key-value storage, while the frontend runs on Stencil.js and Vercel. Prize claiming uses Albedo wallet for non-custodial account management and fee-bump transactions to eliminate user fees. Future improvements will leverage protocol 14's claimable balances and sponsor reserves for asynchronous prize claiming.
