As SCF round 4 winners collect their prizes and go on to make their entries even more wonderful and profitable we begin round 5. There are a few new and adjusted rules I’d like to highlight before releasing your creative and entrepreneurial spirits into the wild. First in the “Submission Template” section be sure and leave the “before colon:” stuff and only replace the content to the right of the colon. We use the "prefix titles:" as regex triggers for the voting site . Next, three “Participant Eligibility” updates: You may only win SCF a maximum of once per year (block of 4 rounds). While you can resubmit ‘losing’ proposals, individuals who submit new proposals after winning 1 SCF challenge within the current year will be disqualified from consideration for the award. ‘Losing’ proposals may only re-enter twice per year, pending there are improvements to the entry. The SCF is a fund for work completed or proven not for a promise of future work. For applications and content there must be significant work and effort put into proving the viability and commitment to your project and for events you should have a history demonstrating your ability and qualification to carry out your intentions. Rules 1 and 2 are pretty significant changes so those new rules will go into effect now but will not be enforced until round 6. That’s it for updates! On to the rest of the details! Round Schedule May 25th – Submissions open June 22nd – Submissions close, Discussion opens July 20th – Nominations open July 27th – Nominations close, 1 week pause Aug 3rd – Final vote begins Aug 10th – Final vote finishes, round ends, 1 week pause The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) gives the broader Stellar community the opportunity to vote on which long term projects they believe deserve SDF seed funding. Any project built on Stellar can apply and participate! Every 3 months, 8 participants have the chance to split a pool of 3 million lumens. Timeline Each SCF round consists of 4 phases covering 13 weeks. The Submission Phase During this phase, participants submit their proposals to GalacticTalk.org . Late submissions will not be eligible for the current round. The submission phase lasts 4 weeks. The Discussion Phase The discussion phase is the participation and learning phase. Discussion and community participation is highly encouraged. It is fundamentally the most important part of the Stellar Community Fund. Not only does it give participants valuable feedback, it allows them to position themselves as advocates for their proposal and overall growth of the ecosystem. This round is strictly dedicated to the sharing and discussion of project proposals within the community. Community members should take this time to ask participants questions about their proposals, submit suggestions, and engage with any active elements. The discussion phase lasts 4 weeks. The Nomination Phase This is the first round of voting. Stellar community members will vote for their favorite project proposals. Each voter must select 3 entries but can vote on up to 8 different entries. The top 8 nominees move to the final vote phase. Nomination takes place over 2 weeks. There will be a one week pause after the nomination phase before the final vote begins. The Final Vote In this phase, the top 8 proposals enter a final vote which guides the lumen distribution. Voters choose their 3 favorite proposals from the top 8. Lumens are distributed based on the final percentage of the votes. For example, if a winning project receives 20% of the vote, they will receive 20% of the awarded lumens (600,000XLM of the 3M XLM pool). The final vote phase lasts 1 week and there will be a one week gap before each new round begins. Proposal Submission All proposals should be submitted as a new thread to GalacticTalk.org under the SCF | proposals category . Proposals should be classified by category. Are you building an application, writing a resource, or planning an event? Choose appropriately. Below are category descriptions. Applications, Tools & Infrastructure This is the ‘developer’ category. If your project is built on Stellar—or is a tool that supports developing on Stellar—your proposal belongs here. All submissions to this category must have a functional / live element. For example: if you are creating a library, you must have reviewable code; if you are building an application, people must be able to demo it. Resources & Content This is the category for people who want to flex their creative muscles. Do you have a great series of tutorials, a podcast, or website that can help educate people about Stellar? If so, your proposal fits within this category. This category requires drafts or rough cuts of your proposed content. People must be able to read and review your submitted samples. Events & Programs This is the category for broader Stellar outreach. Are you planning on hosting a workshop or community-driven program? If so, this is the category for you. This category requires that you share a plan for execution. Depending on the scope of this effort you will need to provide items such as proposed venues, curriculum, timelines, guests, costs, etc. Submission Template Image: 1200x630 image preview of your project or brand Title: The name of your project. (Please adhere to the Stellar brand policy ) Summary: A simple sentence summarizing the why of your project Category: Choose one the three categories (Applications, Tools & Infrastructure | Resources & Content | Events & Programs) Goals: What your project plans to accomplish broken down by objectives Description: The description should answer questions like “what does your project enable users to do?” “Why is your project valuable for Stellar?” and “How does your project use Stellar?” It should also cover what platforms the project supports (ex; Windows, Chrome, etc.) and relevant documentation. This section should be very detailed. Links: Links to your application, code repository, supporting materials, and/or home site. If you are submitting a proposal for content pieces (like walkthroughs), please provide links to the content pieces. Tags: Tag your project. Examples can be “sdk, javascript, party, game, book, event, etc.” Voting Voting will take place in two rounds. A nomination round and an award round. Voting takes place on stellarcommunity.fund . Submission Eligibility Applicable law and our internal policies restrict us from providing lumen awards for certain categories of projects. If your project is in one of our prohibited categories, it will not be eligible for an award. If you are unsure whether your project falls inside these one or more of these categories, please contact us and verify! Regardless of the community’s voting outcome, a submission will be ineligible to receive an award if it: violates any applicable laws, regulations, orders, judgments, decrees, guidance, or other legal authority; involves, facilitates, supports, or promotes unlawful activities, including, but not limited to: fraud, drug trafficking, purchases on dark web markets, theft, illegal arms trafficking, human trafficking, abduction, extortion, embezzlement, corruption of public officials, acts of terrorism or terrorist financing, and intellectual property violations; involves, facilitates, or promotes gambling; is offensive, deceptive, harmful, or libelous; is or contains sexually obscene content; is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group; contains, transmit, or instills malware or phishing pages or devices; or infringes or violates any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy, right of publicity, or other rights. Participant Eligibility SDF intends to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in the distribution of lumen awards. All winners will be required to submit KYC documentation and fill out an applicable tax form. Failure to submit appropriate documentation or failure to pass our KYC checks will result in your rewards being forfeit. These tax forms will be used for accounting and tax reporting purposes so please be aware of your country’s applicable laws regarding tax-filing. Lumens will be reported at closing price on the day they are sent to you. You must be at 18 years of age to participate in SCF, unless your country's minimum age for receiving a cryptocurrency award is older, in which case you must meet the minimum age applicable in your jurisdiction. You may only win SCF a maximum of once per year (block of 4 rounds). While you can resubmit ‘losing’ proposals, individuals who submit new proposals after winning 1 SCF challenge within the current year will be disqualified from consideration for the award. Winning entries will not be eligible for future rounds. ‘Losing’ proposals may re-enter twice per year, pending there are improvements to the entry. Current Ecosystem Infrastructure Grant recipients are not eligible to participate in SCF. The SCF is a fund for work completed or proven not for a promise of future work. For applications and content there must be significant work and effort put into proving the viability and commitment to your project and for events you should have a history demonstrating your ability and qualification to carry out your intentions. Participants who create fake accounts to bypass the above rules will be disqualified. This is regardless of whether or not they win a round. Participants who leverage sockpuppet accounts to submit proposals, friends to submit proposals, or any similar ‘act of bad faith’ will be disqualified. SDF has the right to withhold awards from people who have abused these eligibility requirements. Unfortunately, if you’re a national or resident of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, or the region of Crimea, we are unable to send you any lumens. Additionally, we may also be unable to send lumens to winners in countries where local law makes it unlawful for residents to hold or receive cryptocurrencies. Please note, we currently cannot send lumens to residents of the US states of Alabama, New York, Georgia, Connecticut, New Mexico, Hawaii, Vermont, and Washington. All participants will retain the intellectual property associated with their submission. Engaging in vote manipulation will cause your proposal to be disqualified. This includes botspam, fake/sock puppet accounts, and brigading. Manipulation and Disqualification What we're looking for is organic, genuine interest and discussion around your project. Foster and encourage that. Be kind and supportive to your fellow competitors. Don’t ask for votes. Instead, ask others to simply take a look for themselves. Feel free to share a direct link to your GalacticTalk post with your friends or users, but don’t mass-message strangers, or attempt to "game" the system in any way. People should vote for entries they genuinely like or find interesting, not because they were peer pressured or incentivized to do so. While this is a community fund, the SDF retains the right to disqualify entries and timeout participants without warning or explanation in order to maintain a fair and profitable experience for everyone. If we find you’re acting in bad faith, we may bar you from participating in future rounds as well. If you suspect foul play and would like SDF to investigate, or if you have suggestions for future rounds of the community fund, please fill out this form . Do not use the SCF Keybase team to critique the program or call out participants. Stellar Community Fund Keybase Team keybase.io/team/stellar.communityfund

Hey Tyler, I have an honest question... Am I allowed to participate?

[unknown] Don't expect sympathy from a person with inferiority COMPLEX. This guy grew in the BUSH as FARMER, now that he is in charge for the first time of his life of management positions, he can show off his hate. HATE for WINNER, young enthusiast. THIS guy will be retired or dead when the crypto adoption will come, how somebody likethat can care about Stellar evolution. LASTLY his OPEN RACISM, by manipulation and dissimulation of information.

I don't think so, Tyler is a nice guy I've been following since day one, I admire his drive to build cool stuff like graphQL and StellarAuth because I am like him, I like to build stuff too. Of course he now has to bow before his corporate overlords and play all the diplomacy, politics, politeness cards in his answers but still I want to know however sweetened words he will use if I can compete or not. Still waiting...

[unknown] Why all these personal attacks and racism accusations? Do you have any proofs to support your "OPEN RACISM" claims? Have you been mistreated based on ethnic identity? It's not clear, your message looks like a raw dump of thoughts. Make a separate post, provide detailed evidence (links to online discussions, personal message, or whatever). And I'll be the first to support you if this really happened. But until then, I'll keep removing your posts containing baseless accusations intended to inflame inter-ethnic discord.

@[deleted] at least , respond those that still see some good in you. you just inspire me DEREK CHAUVIN, when you get to basic function, you can openly express your negativity. For a BUSHMEN you have built great thing, but diversity and evolution is not for you. Stellar use to inspire me brilliant entrepreneur like JED. I JUST hope that the SDF and JED are not in the complicity of your RACIST ACT because those people stellar have been built for are not all like you. We will make sure that your racist act gets known and justice will be done. STELLAR Will get bigger and we will remember the early racist of this community. but seeing your age and your social background, i am not shocked. Growing up around COW , you can't have no idea about diversity in the world. your long way to Blockchain haven't make you a better person.

[unknown] @[deleted] don't place yourself in a place to judge the opinions . you are not twitter.

[unknown] I have mod privileges on this site, and I will use them without a second thought to enforce adherence to the policy of this community site and code of conduct . Stop spamming and provide context for your accusations. Otherwise, your account will be blocked.

@[deleted] at least , respond those that still see some good in you. you just inspire me DEREK CHAUVIN, when you get to basic function, you can openly express your negativity. For a BUSHMEN you have built great thing, but diversity and evolution is not for you. Stellar use to inspire me brilliant entrepreneur like JED. I JUST hope that the SDF and JED are not in the complicity of your RACIST ACT because those people stellar have been built for are not all like you. We will make sure that your racist act gets known and justice will be done. STELLAR Will get bigger and we will remember the early racist of this community. but seeing your age and your social background, i am not shocked. Growing up around COW , you can't have no idea about diversity in the world. your long way to Blockchain haven't make you a better person.

please BLOCK ME. my GHOST WILL COME BACK .

I have deleted a bunch of posts here, because they were off topic and not related to the SCF. I wanted to split the topic and preserve the conversation, but it was full of name calling and baseless accusations that I didn't see a lot of value in preserving it. I want again to ask everyone to check out Stellar's Code of Conduct before posting here. On another note, GalacticTalk takes accusations of racism extremely serious. In such cases you can message me directly ( support@galactictalk.org ), if you don't feel comfortable posting publicly on the forum about it. But using this important issue to troll, spam and attack other community members will not be tolerated.

? Stellar Community Fund – Round 5 ?️

tyvdh

Torkus Absolutely! As long as you abide by the rules I'd love to see you back at it this round!

Scopuly

Hi tyvdh
Congratulations on joining the Stellar Team and your new SCF position!
Tell me, can Scopuly (https://scopuly.com/) take part in this SCF round?

tyvdh

Scopuly Follow the rules and you're more than welcome to participate!

Scopuly

tyvdh Fine.
We plan to roll out a powerful trading interface for SDEX in the near future. We hope the design, functionality and practicality will surprise and please the Stellar community.

Onwadan

Good day house. How can I submit my own proposal? I mean link or email to send it to.
Urgent response would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!

dzham

Onwadan

It's all in the OP.

Create a new post here, copy the submission template and fill it out, tag the post w/ Stellar Community Fund + Proposals.

tokenbox

Dear Admin,

I just posted a proposal titled Tokenization of cattle livestock's loan to Stellar Based Tokens but there was an error in the image link. Sorry if I could be helped to fix it?

Thank you very much

BryonSato

it appears that my proposal might have entered into the wrong spot. Is that because that i don't have the "proposal" tag? Can someone help me out? Thanks beforehand.

pantheon52

Hi my proposal is stuck on submit page. Anyway it still can be submitted?

pantheon52

I recommend updating the times on the deadlines in order to prevent people from different timezones getting confused. Although submitting at the last second is considered late in my books, it's hard to know when that is when it's not officially stated by Universal time, especially for projects that aren't fully completed and want to make a proper first impression.

I had updated my template for the last 5 hours just to see it was prevented from posting 10 minutes ago. I guess someone decided to pull the plug at 11:42 PM my time. No worries, i'll wait for the next one I guess.

bkolobara

pantheon52 As you noticed, the submissions are closed for this round. I just re-enabled them, so you can post. But I believe the official cut off time is UTC and I'm not sure your submission will be considered. I will let @tyvdh decide if it still qualifies.

A small tip for future participants. If you submit earlier you stick way more out. The community has time reading your proposal, trying it out and giving feedback. In the last 2 days before the deadline there are so many submissions it's easy to miss out on some cool projects. Submitting early is really worth it.

pantheon52

bkolobara Thank you, I didn't even notice your reply. I will let @tyvdh have the last call. Thank you again @bkolobara

Protip if it was UTC, that would mean multiple projects posted past the deadline. I recommend putting June 22nd 12:00AM UTC to be officially explicit.

BryonSato

bkolobara Respectfully, it is news to me that the cut off time is UTC. Nowhere in the instruction as posted here mentioned UTC. Obviously we all want to post our proposal as early as possible, but the things don't always turn our ways.
Well, is there an official list of accepted proposals? I'd like to have a confirmation on whether or not ours is in the running. Appreciated.

Answerly

@BryonSato Seems like your project is listed. Link to the proposals page - https://galactictalk.org/t/proposals

BryonSato

Answerly Thanks for the reply. Is it said anywhere that the proposals page is the "official" listing in the sense it is formally accepted for discussion/consideration? Are we applicants going to receive a receipt of some sort? It is all a bit uncertain here.

Scopuly

Will there still be an opportunity to apply for participation?

tyvdh

Scopuly Not for this round. Submissions closed earlier this morning.

tyvdh

We're reviewing and I'll have an official announcement soon closing out the submission phase and opening the discussion phase.

BryonSato

tyvdh I take it "earlier this morning" is in reference to UTC time? 😅

tyvdh

The SCF round 5 submission phase has closed. What a wild last 24 hours! So many procrastinators 😉

All told if my count is correct we've got 33 entries this round. Amazing! Not all entries are created equal however and like last round we've gone through and combed out a few which didn't quite measure up to the standards of the SCF. These entries in no particular order are:

StellarSpace
Insufficient effort around functionality already natively available on StellarTerm.

Changing lives with cryptocurrency such as XLM
Not an entry. For charity or donation efforts explore services like Lumenthropy.

Stellar Community Forum
Already won the SCF.

ZTrust
Little substantive work done. No live element.

Ceviche
No evidence of substantive work done. No live element.

Hide my secret
Not utilizing Stellar in any meaningful way.

Tokenbox
This project is interesting and it was a tough call but ultimately the entry just isn't ready.
Live aspect isn't working, entry template wasn't followed well and it's not clear how or if Stellar has been implemented in any meaningful way.

Ai-Fi.net
Doesn't seem to have Stellar implemented in any meaningful way. This grant is not for funding bug bounties. Once they can implement and deliver on some of their other intentions it's possible this entry would be reconsidered for future rounds.

Russian Speaking Stellar Community
As much as we want to support content and documentation entries in the SCF it's clear this entry is not and has no intention of competing within the rules or spirit of the SCF. This is a fund for work completed or proven not for a promise of future work.

StarForex
Entrant has made it clear they have no intention of competing within the rules or spirit of the SCF.

Aside from these disqualifications there are several projects right on the edge of a disqualification which will be disqualified before the nomination vote if they don't significantly improve their entries in the coming weeks. I see a strong effort but the delivery is weak. We need the community review process to be as seamless and straight forward as possible. Leaving too much clicking and exploring outside GalacticTalk is a big ask when there are this many entries. I will be reaching out to these projects individually with my critique.

If you aren't in either of these lists now is not the time to rest. Keep improving and marketing your efforts. Make it easy to understand and "get" your idea. We've got a pretty sizeable pool of entries this round and the results will largely be determined by your ability to quickly sell your idea to a busy but educated community. Be very detailed and direct, explore new avenues like audio and video, don't keep it simple, keep it Stellar.

For all the reviewers and voters out there remember to keep it civil and please use this form to report on any issues, complaints or ideas. We are listening and your feedback is and has been incredibly important in shaping the outcome and progress of the Stellar Community Fund.

❤️ you all, onwards to the discussion phase!

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