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Stellar Kickstart
  • 🏕️Welcome to the SCF Kickstart Week
    • 💰Funding Overview
    • ✍️Dear changemakers, visionaries, and problem solvers
    • ℹ️TL;DR: How to Maximize Your SCF Kickstart Week Experience
  • 📚Fundamentals of Integrating with Stellar
    • 🚀Stellar For
    • 🏗️Building with Stellar
    • 🔧Tools
    • 👷Resources
      • Fundamental Concepts
        • ⭐Introduction to the Stellar network
        • ⛓️Introduction to blockchain technology
        • 💵Introduction to payments in Stellar
        • 🧑Accounts
      • Core Features & Mechanisms
        • 🔐Assets: Powering Digital Value Exchange
        • Assets Issuance: Manage digital assets effortlessly on Stellar
        • 💸Transactions: At Stellar Core
        • 👮‍♂️Signatures in Stellar: Who, how much and to what is authorized
      • Payments & Transactions
        • 💰Payments: Simplifying Transactions with Stellar
        • ⛓️Path Payments: Convert Assets at Minimal Cost
        • ⛽Fee-Bump: How to pay for other people's transactions
      • Developer & Integration Tools
        • 👩‍🔬Stellar Laboratory: Stellar at hand for everyone
        • 🚪Faucet: Easy Access to Free Blockchain Assets
        • 🧰Stellar Wallets Kit: A kit to handle all Stellar Wallets at once with a simple API
        • ✍️Simple Signer: A wallet aggregator and transaction signer
      • Advanced Development & Testing
        • 🧪How to Create Integration Tests Using GitHub Actions and Stellar's Docker Image
  • 🎨Design Sprint
    • 🌅Introduction
    • 1️⃣Day 1 - Validate your problem and define your MVP's Scope
    • 2️⃣Day 2 - Build a prototype to validate with real users
    • 3️⃣Day 3 - Define the technical architecture
    • 4️⃣Day 4: Develop your Go To Market Strategy & Pitch Deck
    • 5️⃣Day 5: Compile all the information
    • 👀Sample Completed Design Sprint
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Welcome to the SCF Kickstart Week

Kickstart Your Blockchain: Transform your idea into a prototype in just four days and apply for up to $15k worth of XLM in funding.

NextFunding Overview

Last updated 7 months ago

What is Kickstart Week?

Overview: A five-day program that provides the guidance and building blocks needed for startups looking to launch their projects on Stellar. supports this initiative, providing funding to selected projects.

Key Benefits:

  • Rapid Prototype Development: Transform your blockchain idea into a validated prototype in just four days.

  • Access to Funding: Apply for up to $15k worth of XLM in funding to kickstart your project.

  • Expert Mentorship: Receive guidance from leading experts in the blockchain and Stellar ecosystem.

  • Network Expansion: Connect with the vibrant Stellar community, including potential investors and industry leaders.

  • Skill Enhancement: Sharpen your problem-solving, design-thinking, and pitching skills through a focused design sprint process.

Development Process: Developed by Bigger and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the camp utilizes a streamlined design sprint process to accelerate product development, condensing extensive planning and discussion into a focused week.

Objective: Fast-track the development cycle by reducing the time from idea to prototype.

Learn More:

This bootcamp model is inspired by the design sprint developed by leaders at Google Ventures. You can find more information about it at this link:

Who Should Participate?

Ideal for:

  • Innovators interested in Stellar and Soroban platforms.

  • Those looking to:

    • Revolutionize DeFi: Build dapps that push the envelope of decentralized finance.

    • Build for Impact: Create solutions to create equitable access to the global financial system.

    • Strengthen Infrastructure: Develop tools and resources to support the ecosystem

Start your journey with the SCF Kickstart Week and turn your blockchain vision into reality with dedicated support and potential funding to make it happen.

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF)
https://www.gv.com/sprint/
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