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Articlemedium.comEmir Ayral1y ago

SCF #31 Round Recap

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) Round 31 awarded $2,068,710 in XLM to 22 projects, including payment solutions, DeFi platforms, developer tools, and RWA tokenization engines. The round received 123 submissions, with 71 being first-time applicants, demonstrating strong ecosystem growth.

SCFPaymentsDeFi
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Stellar Community Fund Round 31 concluded with $2,068,710 in XLM distributed across 22 Build Award recipients. Notable winners include Mercuryo (crypto debit card with Mastercard), Kulipa (stablecoin card payments), PayQin (cross-border USDC wallet), Kura (merchant payments in Latin America/Caribbean), and Bebop (banking for Africa's unbanked youth). Infrastructure projects also received support: The Graph's StreamingFast (blockchain indexing), idOS (decentralized identity), K3 Labs (Web3 workflow orchestration), and Swift Wallet SDK (iOS development). The round reflects SCF 6.0's focus on innovation, project launches, and ecosystem growth, with 71 first-time applicants among 123 total submissions.

Mentioned projects
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AmeroApplications
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P2PMoneygramCross-Border Payments

Amero Exchange is a regulated platform that enables users in Latin America to buy, sell, and manage digital assets, supporting o…

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BebopApplications
SCF
AfricaSoftware WalletMobile

Bebop is an app focused on expanding Africa's access to the global economy by providing free, instant money transfers built on b…

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EquitXFinancial Protocols
SCFAudited
SyntheticsDeFi

A decentralized finance platform that enables users to mint, trade, and stake "xAssets," which are synthetic assets mirroring th…

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idOSDeveloper Tooling
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IdentityKYCNodes

The idOS is a decentralized identity and storage layer for user data. The idOS enables KYC re-usability in a compliant way.

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K3 LabsDeveloper Tooling
SCF
DevX

K3 is brand new tool that transforms how businesses and developers interoperate with Web 3 technologies - allowing for the orche…

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KulipaApplications
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StablecoinsPaymentsAnchor

A card that enables payments in stablecoin where Visa and Mastercard are accepted, with settlement on Stellar.

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KuraApplications
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B2BCaribbeanHaiti

Creates transparency and impact by reducing cash use and enabling merchants in LAC to get paid directly at their points of sale.

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MercuryoInfrastructure & Services
SCF
PaymentsAPIWallet Infra

Mercuryo is a global payment platform bridging crypto and fiat, offering services like on-ramps, virtual cards, and multi-curren…

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PayQinApplications
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Cross-Border PaymentsMoneygramPayments

Financial platform powered by USDC on Stellar, offering digital wallets, cross-border transfers, and bill payments for African u…

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RangoFinancial Protocols
SCF
DEXDeFi

Multi-chain interoperability platform integrating Stellar's DEXs and bridges, enabling seamless token swaps across chains with s…

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SiBorgDeveloper Tooling
SCF
TokenizationMarketplaceDeFi

SiBorg is creating a decentralized monetization protocol that transforms media and creator visibility into a new asset class by …

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Soroban Resource Usage ReporterDeveloper Tooling
SCF
AnalyticsDevX

Developer tool for tracking resource usage and key metrics during Soroban smart contract development and testing, enabling effic…

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SpydraApplications
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TokenizationReal EstateIdentity

Spydra is a low code Tokenization platform to tokenize Real world assets for Asset Owners/Issuers without writing a single line …

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Swift Wallet SDKDeveloper Tooling
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SDK

With the Swift Wallet SDK, building an iOS Stellar-enabled wallet or application is faster and easier than ever.

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Trustless WorkDeveloper Tooling
SCFAudited
B2BAPIPayments

Trustless Work is a blockchain-powered Escrow-as-a-Service platform leveraging Stellar's Soroban smart contracts to provide secu…

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UntangledDeveloper Tooling
SCFAudited
Yield AggregatorDeFi

Untangled Vault is an automated, non-custodial, data-driven asset management protocol enabling anyone to set and execute strateg…

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xlm.shInfrastructure & Services
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HostingDomains

xlm.sh is a gateway that enables access to decentralized websites hosted on Stellar and IPFS by appending ".sh" to their ".xlm" …

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