Build an Application with Stellar and Win
Part of 2 Billion Lumens
Submit Your Project by September 20, 2016
Anchors:
4 annual awards, based on usage
Anchors are either banks, licensed money-service providers, or mobile money operators that accept deposits, issue credit, and honor withdrawals on the Stellar network. They are vital to the success of the Stellar network.
Awards
- 1st 55 million lumens
- 2nd 44 million lumens
- 3rd 33 million lumens
- 4th 22 million lumens
To qualify as an anchor, organizations that enter the challenge must meet the following criteria:
- Record customer balances of some asset in the Stellar ledger
- Support federation for deposits and withdrawals
- Have a proper stellar.toml so others can add your anchor by domain name
- Comply with local regulations
- Sustain activity and placement for 12 months
These awards will be determined on October 1, 2016. The lumens will be held in escrow and will only be
delivered on July 1, 2017, if the anchors still qualify at that date.
Applications: Quaterly awards, judged by panel
All kinds of apps are possible with the Stellar network. We have broken this down into a few subcategories. Due to qualitive nature of this category, award recipients will be determined by a panel of community members (more info below).
Awards:
Wallets
1st: 8 million lumens
2nd: 5.5 million lumensMost innovative apps
1st: 11 million lumens
2nd: 5.5 million lumens
3nd: 2.7 million lumensTrading client
11 million lumensMost active forum dedicated to Stellar
5.5 million lumens
Exchanges: 4 annual awards, based on volume
Four awards will recognize exchanges that support lumen trading. Entries will be evaluated by the lumen volume on the qualifying exchange.
Awards:
- 1st 55 million lumens
- 2nd 44 million lumens
- 3rd 33 million lumens
- 4th 22 million lumens
To qualify as an exchange, organizations that enter the challenge must meet the following criteria:
- Trade lumens for fiat or digital currency
- Accept lumen deposits and honor withdrawals
- Deposit lumens via federation
- Support federation for withdrawals
- Allow fiat deposits/withdrawals via Stellar
- Be listed on coinmarketcap.com
- Comply with local regulations
- Sustain activity and placement for 12 months
These awards will be determined on October 1, 2016. The lumens will be held in escrow and will only be
delivered on July 1, 2017, if the anchors still qualify at that date.
First-time submissions: Quarterly awards
To encourage developers new to the Stellar ecosystem to build, each first-time submission from a unique GitHub account will be awarded 200k lumens.
To qualify as a first-time submission, entries must meet the following criteria:
- Represent original work from the developer, open-sourced on GitHub
- Be functional and able to demo
judges
Awards will be decided by a panel of judges from the Stellar community.
This panel includes the following community members:
- Cheng Kuan
- Johan Stén
- Eno Han
- Christian Rudder
- Tim Akinbo
Judges will have one vote for each potential award in the four categories. Judges will not cast votes in categories for which they have submitted entries.