Awesome Stellar Community Fund

Stellar Community Fund Resources

A collection of tools, skills, and reference materials for participating in the Stellar Community Fund (SCF).

Install as a Claude Code plugin

The skills in this repo are packaged as a Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add lumenloop/awesome-stellar-community-fund
/plugin install awesome-stellar-community-fund@awesome-scf

This makes all ten SCF skills available in your session. You can also point any AI tool directly at an individual skills/<name>/SKILL.md, or read the docs/ guides on their own.

What's Inside

skills/

Reusable AI skills for SCF applications — reviewing, drafting, budgeting, prescreening, and more:

• scf-round-reviewer — Review and rank an entire SCF round end-to-end from a CSV export. Supports Open Track, Integration Track, and RFP Track with track-specific scoring. Orchestrates parallel batch reviews, calibration, and final ranking.
• scf-reviewer — Review Build Award applications with structured evaluation across integration fit, architecture, team, traction, budget, and ecosystem commitment.
• fetch-external-doc — Fetch external documents linked in submissions — Google Docs, Google Drive PDFs, GitHub, Notion, IPFS. Uses curl for reliable Google Docs/Drive fetching.
• scf-prescreen-checker — Simulate the SCF team's manual prescreen (completeness + eligibility) before you submit.
• scf-budget-builder — Build bottom-up budgets with rates, per-deliverable breakdowns, and tranche mapping.
• scf-competitor-analyst — Research the competitive landscape and articulate differentiation.
• scf-submission-drafter — Draft a complete Build Award application interactively, section by section.
• scf-interest-form-drafter — Draft a strong Interest Form to get invited to apply.
• scf-tranche-reporter — Write tranche submission reports with deliverable evidence and completion documentation.
• scf-referral-preparer — Prepare materials for an SCF referral from an approved Referrer (Ambassador, Navigator, Pilot, partner, or SDF personnel).

For a turnkey review setup, see scf-review-boilerplate — drop a CSV and run.

docs/

Guides and reference documentation for SCF applicants and reviewers:

See docs/README.md for a suggested reading order.

• SCF History — Deep dive into every SCF version (1.0–7.0), all award types, special programs, and cumulative funding statistics from 3,301 submissions and $49.3M in payouts.
• SCF 7.0 Guide — Program overview, all three Build Award tracks, Instawards, evaluation criteria, and best practices.
• Tips for Applying — Data-driven advice on what gets funded and what gets rejected, with stats from 1,048 Build Award submissions.
• Getting a Referral — How the SCF Referral Program works, what referrers evaluate, and how to earn a referral without burning relationships.
• Interest Form Tips — How to write a strong Interest Form and get invited to apply.
• Submission Template — Fill-in-the-blank Build Award application template connecting all guides.
• Technical Architecture — Best practices for the architecture section: diagrams, Soroban details, data flow, security.
• Writing Deliverables — How to structure deliverables across the milestone system (three milestones — MVP, Testnet, Mainnet — mapped to four tranches T0–T3), with category-specific examples from funded projects.
• Writing Budgets — Bottom-up budget construction, rate benchmarks, tranche mapping, and budget statistics from 215 funded Build Awards.
• Proving Traction — On-chain metrics, usage data, demand signals, and adoption targets.
• UX Readiness — UX expectations for funded builds and the optional UX support available — not a hard payout gate.
• Submitting Tranches — How to submit tranche deliverables for review: what to include, format, and common delays.
• Post-Launch and Growth — Growth Hack, Public Goods Award, Stellar Liquidity Award, BD support, and additional Build Awards.