Stellar Surge seeks to build a community of engaged African engineers and startups building on Stellar and Soroban. The program provides a pathway to innovation, learning, and meaningful connections within the African blockchain and developer ecosystem with special focus on building strong partnerships/alliances while supporting and raising developers within the African landscape to launch innovative products using the Stellar and Soroban network.
Learn
Don’t know what you’d like to build on Soroban and/or Stellar? Join the community to learn more about Stellar and Soroban and get inspired to solve problems using Stellar Technology.
Innovate
Got an idea or working on any project that tackles real life problems in Africa and interested in integrating Soroban and/or Stellar? Join the community to innovate and get the support you need from taking your idea from Point A to B.
DFS Lab is actively delivering a two-year research program in Indonesia — in collaboration with RISE Indonesia and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program is a set of interconnected research activities designed to explore and document the current shape of the Indonesian platform economy, with a special focus on livelihoods.
Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DFS Lab and CoLab Kaduna are working in partnership to develop a program to harness the innovative potential of technology firms, developers, and startups in Kaduna State by building modern solutions to the challenges put forward by the people of Kaduna state, with the overall aim of catalyzing an inclusive digital ecosystem in Kaduna state.
The SCF Startup Camp is a virtual and global 4-day long bootcamp which connects startups (interested in) building on Stellar and/or Soroban (Stellar’s new smart contract platform). The bootcamp adopts a design-sprint model which enables participating teams to define a problem, storyboard a solution, and develop a rapid user-validated prototype.
The Mojaloop Bootcamp offers teams from around the world the opportunity to explore what’s possible with the Mojaloop technology- an open source code that lowers the cost to build, maintain and modify an inclusive instant payment system (IIPS) that brings affordable, connected digital financial services to anyone with access to a mobile phone. During the bootcamp, teams come in with their ideas and within four days, build real solutions to their tough business challenges.
