StellarZac What is the threshold for the reddit accounts? Or are you referring to the GalacticTalk ones?

      Is this SCF program only for small to medium sized projects that can be completed within a short 2-3 month timeframe? What would you suggest for a larger project to do when it is looking for funding to create solutions using Stellar?

      We are working on a larger project that will not be possible to complete within the 7 weeks left for this SCF round. However, there are some low level basic functional components of our project that could be made available for others to begin using and testing with. There are plans to have something fully functional early next year.

      Brief Project Details

      To give some more information about our project it involves some of the topics of interest stated in the "Stellar Academic Research Program" More specifically these topics:

      • Adaptations of traditional market mechanisms (such as short selling and derivatives) to Stellar or other distributed ledgers
      • 2-way pegged side chains across ledgers employing quorum slices

      Research began on this project in early 2018, before the "Stellar Academic Research Program" was announced. More recently the implementation has begun. FWIW no one on our team has ever patented anything and there are no plans to do so in the future.

      Some Background Information

      I have entered some of our work in previous Stellar Build Challenges. Here is a link to the SBC2017April entry, SBC2017November entry and the lumag.solutions website that was built to promote the project. Due to a seemingly lack of interest in the project, in early 2018 we decided to pivot to begin exploring and researching the derivatives project we are now working on.

      4 days later

      We would like some clarification. At the top of your April 2019 (24 days ago) post it states "The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30." One of our social media fans stated that the contest was over for new projects as of March 2019? We submitted our project a couple of days ago and are sharing it on social media channels and would like some clarification please. Thanks.

      StellarZac

      We would like some clarification. At the top of your April 2019 (24 days ago) post it states "The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30." One of our social media fans stated that the contest was over for new projects as of March 2019? We submitted our project a couple of days ago and are sharing it on social media channels and would like some clarification, please. Thanks.

        This is already funny to observe and will be even more funny once you figure out that all the vote and comment buying was for nothing.

          WebWallet

          If this is funny to observe then you have a twisted sense of humor. Our team has worked tirelessly to deliver a working product for social good. We posted the link to this on all our social media channels and all connections (something you failed to mention). Get your facts straight before you publicly slander us. Boosting posts or Incentivizing people to share your project is called marketing and is how Facebook, Google, and others have become so successful.

              Garth I just added a small extension to the forum that counts all eligible votes on the first post of a discussion with the SCF tag.

                12 days later

                citystates
                [unknown]

                Thanks for pointing that, I completely forgot about pagination. It should be fixed now.

                  10 days later

                  I just submitted my proposal today. Do I have a disadvantage in the nomination process over projects that were posted earlier and have had more time to accumulate likes? Is it permissible for me to privately message members to view my proposal and consider liking it or is that considered "brigading?" Am I allowed to campaign for votes? Or should I just sit back and relax now that my proposal has been submitted?

                    deylandra

                    You can share your announcement. Try to do so in the spirit of the competition (don't blindly spam messages or threads).

                    Next steps

                    I'd like to take a moment to say that if you haven't yet shared your announcement to /r/Stellar - I would recommend doing so. This will give the reddit community an opportunity to see what everyone is working on. Remember, projects are allowed one post per week on the subreddit.

                      So late submitted proposals do have disadvantage?

                      9 days later

                      Hi

                      My project is Picl and up until yesterday I had accrued 6 eligible votes. I just checked again now and they are down to 2, with all the same likes still in place. Was a new condition applied to votes that has cause some to no longer be eligible?

                      Thanks

                        ChrisLMills

                        "I added the vote count to the main page today. Now I'm also ignoring the votes of suspended accounts and today I suspended over 300 accounts, mostly because their email account is shut down. But I also suspended many sockpuppet accounts. This will affect the score of some projects."

                            Hello zac

                            This message is not addressed to you (you are cool!), But to those who so furiously gloated when they cut out voices from the Scopuly project.

                            Hey admin, why so cruel? You banned our work accounts. At 19 years old 🙂. Yes you are a punisher. If you consider this to be such a severe evil, then look at what pressure methods your colleagues use.

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                            To me, the developer of Scopuly, a member of SCF wrote such a nasty message (this is his GT account https://galactictalk.org/u/tyvdh, and this is the project that he presented https://galacttalk.org/d/1977-stellarauth-authenticate-using-your-stellar-account). For this, what kind of punishment will be applied? This is an obvious psychological pressure on developers.

                            What is wrong with Scopuly?

                            Stellar SDF, SCF and everyone who looks at it, tell me what's wrong with the Scopuly project?

                            Yes, we will soon open the source code - it is a matter of time and finances that we don’t ask for - not only did none of your team like us or comment, while some of the other projects you liked tightly with your accounts.

                            Are you acting correctly? Is this how the Stellar ecosystem and key projects should be funded? We are all Stellar developers, we spend so much time and effort on the development of programs, services, projects (which do not bring any income at all) .. we need real support and not this theater that some here have decided to arrange.

                            If you think that the Stellar ecosystem does not need such platform projects as Scopuly, where in one place most of the crypto-related tasks can be solved - then how will people use all the great features of Stellar? Maybe through the command line? Or do people need more advanced interfaces and tools to access Stellar? Obviously, there is little Stargazer wallet for this. People need different services and interfaces, and only then can someone pay attention to this and come here.

                            The Stellar roadmap clearly states that in 2019 the SDF will work more closely with projects building on Stellar. And what is the result? Scopuly gets an extremely prejudiced attitude instead of at least some intelligible normal comment or message.

                            Stellar is not a state system, where a couple of officials decide what policy to be in the country. We all initially and now believe in the decentralization of Stellar, but not only at the level of technology, but also at the level of a key team. We still want to believe. But in fact, we got exactly the opposite attitude.

                            We very much hope that the true spirit of cooperation and support will prevail around Stellar in the future, instead of what we have felt at the moment.

                            We wish good luck and inspiration to all SCF participants - we are one team!

                            [unknown]
                            Not an attack, but may I ask your reasoning to vote for a project that raised more than $25,000,000 in the last 12 months when you condemn Ternio and Scopuly for the funds they raised?