Stellar Wave 4 launches April 22 with major updates: per-repo points budgets to prevent single repositories from dominating rewards, sunsetting the public leaderboard to refocus on contribution quality over rankings, and welcoming projects from the Codigo Alebrije hackathon.
Stellar Wave 4 is launching on April 22 with significant program changes based on community feedback. The update introduces per-repo points budgets that cap total points any single repository can contribute per Wave cycle, ensuring balanced distribution across participating projects. The public leaderboard is being sunset to shift focus from day-to-day ranking dynamics to actual contribution quality and building. The program continues strengthening fairness through quadratic reward scaling, identity verification, and Sybil defenses, with ongoing enforcement against rule-breaking contributors. Projects from the Codigo Alebrije hackathon are joining Wave 4, expanding the participating ecosystem.
