i³ Awards
SCF

i³ Awards 2026

Three categories. One pick in each. SCF Pilots choose the projects that defined the year for their impact, innovation and interoperability.

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Impact

Real-world outcomes for real people

Abroad
Abroad turns Stellar stablecoins into everyday local payments. Users pay from any Stellar wallet and recipients get local currency through PIX (Brazil) and Bre-B (Colombia), with no credit card or cash needed. At Meridian 2025 in Brazil, Abroad launched its stablecoin payment flow over Stellar and PIX so attendees could pay like locals from their own wallets.Connect to pick
Public Node
Public Node was founded by members of the Stellar community at the first Meridian in Mexico City. Nearly seven years later, it remains one of Stellar's most reliable, community-driven contributors, combining high-performance infrastructure with independent governance leadership to strengthen the network's resilience.Connect to pick
Stellar Passport
Stellar Passport is the engagement layer for the Stellar community. Attendees create a passkey-secured smart wallet in seconds, without a seed phrase, browser extension, or app download, then collect on-chain stamps by scanning QR codes at events, completing challenges, and progressing through a rank system.Connect to pick
Stellar Security Portal
The Stellar Security Portal is an open-source public good developed by Inferara that turns Soroban security research into practical knowledge for the Stellar ecosystem. It brings audit reports, vulnerability findings, protocols, and auditors into one searchable resource, helping developers learn from other projects' security findings before deploying their own contracts.Connect to pick

Innovation

Pushing what's possible on Stellar

Inference
Inference is an open-source programming language and toolchain developed by Inferara to make formal verification more accessible to developers. It is designed to help Soroban builders express precise requirements for their software using familiar, Rust-like syntax. The compiler translates Inference programs into WebAssembly and generates formal proof obligations for Rocq.Connect to pick
Stellarchain
StellarChain is an open-source blockchain explorer and analytics platform built specifically for the Stellar ecosystem. It makes Mainnet, Testnet, and Futurenet activity easy to inspect through real-time views of ledgers, transactions, operations, accounts, assets, markets, liquidity pools, and Soroban smart contracts.Connect to pick
Tansu
Tansu is a governance and versioning layer for open-source projects, built on Stellar smart contracts. The general idea is to make the software supply chain verifiable. Each project records its commits on-chain. Maintainers can then link artifacts to a commit, such as an SBOM or a CVE scan, and approve the commit together with these artifacts.Connect to pick
Trustless Work
Escrow infrastructure for stablecoins, live on mainnet since November 2025. Platforms and builders launch complex money flows without writing smart contracts from scratch, and a builder ecosystem has formed around its escrows. Now moving into agentic payments, where escrows could be the trust layer.Connect to pick

Interoperability

Bridging Stellar to the wider world

Blux
Blux provides authentication and wallet infrastructure for Stellar applications. Users can sign in with email, social accounts, passkeys, or an existing wallet, while developers get reusable tools for transaction signing, balances, and on/off-ramp flows through JavaScript and React SDKs.Connect to pick
Reflector
Over the last 3 years, Reflector became the de-facto standard for oracle data on Stellar. Reflector consensus is protected by renowned ecosystem organizations: Script3, CreitTech, UltraStellar, xyclooLabs, PublicNode, LightSail, and StellarExpert. It is the largest and most successful collaborative effort between organizations in the community.Connect to pick
Rozo
ROZO Checkout makes cross-chain checkout payments feel like ordinary shopping. Users choose what they want to buy and pay with the assets they already hold on Stellar; ROZO handles the destination chain, asset conversion, routing, and settlement behind the scenes. Built on ROZO's cross-chain payment infrastructure, live since 2025.Connect to pick
Seevcash
SeevCash is a Ghanaian fintech building the two-way bridge between Ghana's local financial ecosystem and the global Stellar network. Diaspora communities send money home from the US to Ghana via Stellar rails, with over $2.65M on-chain since launching fully on mainnet in October 2025; SeevPlus lets Ghanaian merchants accept GHS via mobile money.Connect to pick

2025 winners

The 2025 recap on stellar.org

The 2025 round ran at Stellar Meridian: 70+ applications, 98 SCF voters shortlisting 12 finalists, and 9 judges.

Impact

Decaf

Stablecoins you can actually use.

Non-custodial app to send, receive, invest and spend stablecoins; cash-out in 180+ countries via MoneyGram.

Nominees: Beans App, Blend, Meru

Innovation

Etherfuse

RWAs as usable rails.

Brings Stablebonds (tokenized government treasuries) natively to Stellar, plus MXNe, a peso-denominated stable value backed by CETES.

Nominees: Almanax, Soroswap Finance, Dogstar

Interoperability

DeFindex

One integration, many protocols.

Wallets integrate one API and launch vaults that turn complex DeFi strategies into simple savings accounts.

Nominees: Hana Wallet, Reflector, Stellarcarbon

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