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SCF Demo Day: February
Recorded: Feb. 25, 2026 Duration: 0:22:13Space Recording
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go. Oh. Okay. Fun little intro there from Khan. I'm not Khan. Sorry to disappoint. And this is
not Khan's corner. But if you think that's where you are, welcome, because you've in fact found
yourself at the February 2026 SCF Mainnet Demo Day, which is equally as exciting. My name is
Gemma, and I'm on the ecosystem growth
team here at the Stellar Development Foundation. I'm super excited about the three projects that
we have lined up to present today. But first, in case you've wandered in here or you thought you
were going to get to hear Khan present, sorry to disappoint. I want to tell you a little bit about
the Stellar Community Fund and exactly what these projects are and how they got here.
So the Stellar Community Fund, or SCF, which you're going to hear, is an open application awards program for devs building on the Stellar network.
It's different from other funding programs that are run by the foundation because it relies on community input for the allocation of awards, project support and review, and community governance.
So that means that the projects that you're seeing today were voted for by members of the Seller community
and truly represent the best of the best in the ecosystem.
This is also a mainnet demo day, which means that all of today's projects are live.
You can use them, integrate with them, whatever you want to do,
and they're all going to give you more information about how you can engage with them when they present.
So these projects have all received Build Awards, which is an award of up to $150K in XLM to build and launch your project on Mainnet.
This is a quick look at what the Build Award looked like last year in 2025.
look at what the Build Award looked like last year in 2025. Over 150 submissions received a total
of $14 million worth of XLM in funding. We had 82 SCF teams launch on Mainnet, completing their
award. But the SCF journey doesn't just stop after Mainnet. 90 teams received ongoing go-to-market and acceleration support, and those teams went on
to raise $70 million in external funding, including non-SCF grants, investments, and more.
Okay, so now that you're a little bit more onboarded as to what's happening here with
the Stellar Community Fund, these are our presenters today. We have three amazing teams.
You're looking at them on the left of your screen now.
Super excited about what they're gonna show us.
So I'll get out of the way now and hand it off
to our first presenter from Centive.
All right, hello everyone.
Can everyone hear me clearly?
Yes, you're good.
Okay, so my name is Efed ayo i'm the ctu at
centive and what we're building is a liquidity power payment infrastructure for global money
movement okay um i don't know why the remote is connected but a minute to get back on my slide Sorry. Oops, give me one second. Okay, I'm back in.
Is it moving? Yes, you're good. You can keep going. Okay. So, yeah. What we build is a liquidity
powered payment infrastructure for global money movements. CENTIV set out three years ago to solve the payment challenges
African businesses face, and we played a major role in the industry.
But along the way, we discovered something crucial, that the biggest roadblock to growth
in emerging markets is not just payments, it's liquidity access.
Businesses across these markets face crippling effect shortages, delayed settlement times,
and strict volume caps from traditional PSPs.
This foundational roadblock has become impossible to ignore now that over $1 trillion plus in
transactions flow through Africa annually.
We see SMEs fail into scale, not due to lack of demand, but because of cash flow constraints.
And when liquidity is inadequate, trade slows down and business is tall. feeling to scale, not due to lack of demand, but because of cash flow constraints.
And when liquidity is inadequate, trade slows down and business is tall.
So CENTIV solves this by providing a liquidity powered payment infrastructure that connects
trade merchants directly to liquidity providers.
These facilities, payment settlements on demand and at scale.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
Let's say a supplier in China sends an invoice to a customer in Brazil.
The customer can pay in their local currency or with stablecoin and sends it route that
transaction through a network, leveraging the speed of the Stellar blockchain and the
liquidity providers in China can handle the payout in the supplier's own local currency.
And everything works seamlessly and settles in less than two minutes.
Rather than just telling you about it, I want to invite you to take a look under the hood yourselves.
Because we are an API-first platform, we've already made integrations incredibly straightforward.
You can view our comprehensive API documentation and explore the platform by visiting our website at centive.io.
That's httpscentive.io.
atttpscentive.io.
Okay.
This opened up massive possibilities
for both merchants
and people in the network.
It means faster
settlements for SMEs and exporters.
For marketplaces, it enables
true cross-currency e-commerce and mass payouts.
For fintechs, it enhances
their operations and reduces
relies on third-party, and let's not
forget our market makers who passively earn from FX spreads.
Our revenue model is highly scalable and distributed across cross-border transactions,
customer to merchant payments, subscription fees for business integrating our liquidity API.
Now compared to legacy players, Centive moves faster and offers more we offer a rapid list of both fiat
and stablecoin a rapidly growing list of both fiat and stablecoin we offer instant liquidity
access to anyone on our platform and provide robust escrow systems developer friendly apis
and a seamless payment gateway for merchants so um i don't know, can anyone? Okay, you guys can still hear me.
The market is responding and to date we've processed over $20 million in volume, successfully
handled over 2 million API calls and generated over $240,000 in revenue, all while maintaining
a massive month-on-month growth rate of 40%. Right now, we are focused on expanding the repayment roles we cover.
We are actively looking for partners who want to join our network as liquidity providers
and partners who want to plug into our APIs as aggregators to move liquidity across borders.
Our team brings deep, diverse sets of experience and skills in fintech, blockchain and global trade to ensure we execute
on this vision. And that vision is to be a catalyst for global growth. We envision a future
where businesses operate seamlessly on the global stage, unburdened by complex time-consuming
transactions. Now I want to use the opportunity to thank the entire Stellar community for their
immense support in helping us get through phase one of making this vision a reality. The network makes
what we do possible and I truly believe this is a collective win for us all. Thank you. You can
check out more of what we do at the link I mentioned earlier, atcpscentive.io. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Congrats on your work.
That's really impressive growth from you guys.
That was great to hear.
Okay.
I'm going to leave your contact us slide up for a second, and I am going to fix our remote
problem that we've got going on.
This is live, people.
Okay.
There's our new link. Ife Dio, thank you for being our guinea pig here. And by
now you all should have already be on centive.com. And with that, we are going to move on to
our next presenter, Lorraine from you got it?
Hello, everyone.
Gemma, I just can't move my slides it is working for you yeah i just got us back to here
can you try clicking next slide for me okay perfect we're on your next slide perfect hello
everyone i'm lorraine from rivo and we are driving the traditional market into the future. Brazil feeds the world, producing an
output for 900 million people every year. But it can't finance its own farmers. They face a 200
billion dollar credit gap. And the traditional financial system can't close it. That's a huge problem. But how big is this gap really?
Brazil finances 40 cents for every dollar it produces.
Other economists finances two dollars.
That's a gap and also opportunity.
So what we are doing about it?
We build our infrastructure to take Brazilian agricultural credit,
tokenize it, and distribute it to investors
at 60% lower costs than the traditional system.
And this creates values for both sides.
For farmers, access capital they couldn't reach before. And for investors, exposure to Brazilian agriculture with 12% to 15% annual returns per year.
An asset class that was completely off limits until now.
Now, how do you make money and scale?
money and scale. Our go-to-market strategy is very simple. Every asset that flows through Revo
Our go-to-market strategy is very simple.
generates revenue from origination to tokenization and servancy. And we scale through three
distribution channels, institutional investors, independent financial advisors, and direct B2B clients. But none of this works without the right rails.
That's why we built on Stellar.
Fast, low cost and designed for real-world assets.
Let me show now the most important part,
is that what we built.
This is our demo, our demo video.
We built it on Stellar. And let me, the video is not playing. We built it on Stellar. And basically, we built a completely platform for credit originators to structure credit and also to investors to access and manage their positions.
So the investor can see the full back office for compliance operation.
We have the web and mobile all live.
The origination for the see the full credit pipeline from demand creation to approve to funding
and the investors get a full dashboard portfolio returns
document everything in one place and the back office team has full control over compliance
risk operations so we have three interfaces on one platform and also on stellar we create the sbrl
a digital stable coin that handles all deposit, settlements, and transfer native on-chain.
And on Soroban, our smart contract, automates the full investment lifecycle
from pool creation to yield distribution.
So every transaction in, every transaction out, fully on-chain and fully auditable.
So it's really, really interesting. And there is
not a prototype. We are live on the seller mainnet. So we have there a 10 million pool,
over 125 farmers financed across 24 Brazilian states, fully automated on chain cash flows.
This is real today. And we are not stopping here.
Our next product brings DeFi liquidity on-chain.
So through Blend Capital integration.
So let me show what it looks like this next product.
Beyond our RWA credit pools, we are launching a second product, DeFi Yield on Stellar.
So basically through Blend integration, DeFi Yield, on Stellar. So basically through blend integration,
DeFi liquidity providers deposit stablecoins and earn yield. And on the other side, traditional
investors continue accessing structured agricultural credit. Two products, two sources of return,
one platform. And the team behind it. Three assets, 15 plus years in blockchain,
a former executive at a $20 billion brokerage.
We don't just understand fintech with BuildIt,
and now we are building it on Stellar.
Real world assets defy one platform,
built on Stellar.
That's Revo and that's why we are bringing the traditional market into the future.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much, Lorraine.
That was awesome to see those live demos there and to see all the work that you've been doing.
So thank you so much for joining us and presenting.
All right.
And for our final presentation of the day, we are going to take a little bit more of
a fun shift.
And if you're ever on the Stellar Dev Discord, you might know this guy.
So without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to Tupuy.
Hi, everyone.
Yeah, Tupuy here.
I would like to present you our project.
So it's called Stellar Merch-Up, but we have a new name now,
which is, so we click next slide.
Yeah, which is called ChimpDAO.
So Chimp, as you're going to see,
is a new way to interact with your project
as we're bringing the merch on chain.
the merch on chain. And so you always been, you all have been to conferences and hunting for
the next swag to grab and merchandise and people love to do's actually not just about having a piece of apparel,
it's also linking yourself to the community and trying to be part of something.
The only problem is that we've tried typical merch, the quality is not good, the print
is actually not good and after a few washes, things are going away.
The major problem that we've identified is not just the quality, it's that the merch is actually not doing anything.
After the conference, you have a t-shirt from a project, but there's no utility besides just
harboring the brand and showing the brand itself.
So we want to fix that with a chimp and we want
to fix it in a in a fun way um so that's what we we're doing with chimp down so with chimp uh we
actually bring the physical product on chain what does that mean uh is that you have an nft which
is attached to every item but the to do that, we actually use NFC chips like this one
and to actually have a strong binding between the on-chain
component and the apparel itself.
And so this NFT really becomes a proof of ownership.
And you can do many things on it because, as I said,
you cannot separate the NFT from
the the shot itself because it has this this chip this chip is not your typical NFC chip that you
you tag and gives you just a new URL it can actually sign messages directly on chain on
Sorobam it's about the SECP 256k1 signature. Basically, it's exactly the same
technology that you can find in smart wallets. And so you could integrate ChimDAO with anything
to actually give your user some promo codes or even do some proof of attendance. You can do many things like that. And holding the NFT allows you to basically do that,
because every signature that you need to do
needs you to actually physically scan this chip.
So it's way more than just having just an NFT
or just an NFC chip like that.
The first thing that we have to do, the other two components that we are
bringing up, it's an iOS app to be able to interact with this. So the app is going to allow you to
sign messages, but also to claim and to view your NFT. And there is also a Spotify backend
that we've added so that the partners that we're onboarding on the platform
can actually present their product
and you can buy this much.
And so, yeah, on the iOS app,
you see you're going to be able to see your NFT
and to interact with it.
And so we plan in the future to even add more integration with the
partner that we're working with for instance we can have a button to
directly trigger a promo code or stuff like that and so to have many
interactions like that so the first product that we are launching with this
is actually a collaboration with Paltalabs and here we are bringing a shirt
and so it's a shirt that a lot of people saw at Meridian and so Paltalabs. And here we are bringing a shirt. And so it's a shirt that a lot of people saw at Meridian.
And so Paltalabs agreed to make 100 limited edition shirts for us.
Every single shirt is going to have these NFC chips embedded.
And again, you cannot separate these chips from the home chain component.
And yeah, feel free to have a look and actually
we're going to open the store right now um i think it's the first time that we're doing this live on
on stellar um so bart is actually behind the scene uh pressing some button and making this available
making this available right now as I speak on shop.chimdao.xyz. Hope you like it and yeah if
you want to partner with us feel free to send me a message on on discord or interact with us on
on X. We also have a discord channel and yeah everybody is welcome and you can find all the
information on the website on chimdao.xyz and the shop itself, shop.chimda.xyz.
Awesome.
I'll leave this up so that everyone can get their cool Chimdao
Palta Labs X shirts.
Very exciting.
No more monkeying around.
Cool.
All right. Well, that's a wrap on what we have today. I want to give a huge thank you
to all three of our presenters, Ifadaya, Lorraine, and Tupri. Today was such a fun mix of projects.
I feel like we were highlighting technical innovation, practical utility, real world impact.
You really can do it all on Stellar. So if you're not building on Stellar, what are you doing? Get in here.
Please check out the individual socials and websites from all three of these projects,
Senti, Revolve Finance, and the newly unveiled Chimp DAO.
And if what you heard today intrigued you and you want to get more involved in SCF from
a voting or a structural perspective, please join our community.
You can unlock exclusive perks like
voting for projects and having access to SCF governance decisions as you move up in tiers.
If you want to submit your project to the Stellar Community Fund, you can start by filling out the
interest form on our website. After that, you may be invited to submit to an open round of the Build Award.
The next Build Award deadline is March 15th.
So that means please fill out the interest form as soon as possible in order to potentially be considered for that round.
Once again, that is not the deadline to submit the interest form, but rather the deadline for the Build Award form.
So let's get in there early.
Also, SCF has, oh, we've got
automations on here. There we go. SCF has a little bit more of a facelift, a little bit more of a new
look from what you might know. So the Build Award is made up currently of three tracks that are
designed to optimize for high quality teams to launch fast and grow faster. These tracks are
the open track for all-star teams who are building new things to
Stellar, like new DeFi protocols, the integration track, which is for applications integrating with
existing ecosystem building blocks. You can find that whole list of integration partners in the
SCF handbook, which is your best source of truth for all things SCF. And then finally, to make sure
that we are funding dev tooling that builders actually need, we've introduced a new RFP track. We currently have a few live RFPs up in the handbook, so make sure to check those out and there will be more coming.
So next time we see you in March, I'm sure we'll have lots of new, exciting launched projects and more things to tell you about this new structure.
Cool. So thank you all so much for joining us on at least in the US this chilly Wednesday in February.
Thank you all so much to our presenters. We will be back next month with a new roster. So we will see you then. Have a great one.
