Let's do this.
Our open-source week is back for 10 days starting November 21st!
A great opportunity for you to contribute, collaborate, and earn rewards. We have a number of projects and ecosystems ready to onboard you.
To participate and see the guidelines, register on our ODHack page over here.
Below, you will find projects that are participating this time round.
We are thrilled to introduce a new blockchain to this upcoming ODHack! Meet Alephium, a disruptive L1 blockchain project challenging industry limitations. Built for scalability, expressivity, security, and true decentralization, its ecosystem is a haven for developers and users seeking a better web3 experience. Positioned as the leading smart contract-enabled PoW chain, Alephium focus on usability, community-driven growth, and a strong developer experience.
They have two repos that will be participating in the ODHack, one that is a SDK and the other one to create new dApp examples in their contract language, Ralph.
On the Stellar side, we've got a number of amazing and new projects motivated to onboard new contributors! Trustless Work did a great post on their work and how they are transforming the potential of open-source. Check out the excerpt below written by Alberto Chavez.
"Building Trustless Work: Our Journey
At Trustless Work, we believe in the transformative potential of open source. As a platform providing Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS), we aim to provide secure, transparent transactions across industries. Our vision is simple yet bold: to abstract the complexities of blockchain and empower platforms to integrate trustless escrow solutions into their payment flows.
This campaign marks a special milestone for us. Not only are we participating as a project, but other teams have already begun leveraging our API to build their own solutions. This validation demonstrates the power of collaboration and the impact that open source can have on accelerating innovation.
Spotlight on the Projects
Here’s a closer look at some of the incredible projects participating in this campaign, all contributing to the vibrant ecosystem of Stellar:
Revolutionary Farmers
Agriculture meets blockchain with this initiative aimed at empowering farmers and agricultural workers. By integrating the Trustless Work API, Revolutionary Farmers ensures that all parties in agricultural trade are protected and transactions are transparent. The project is building a mobile app that simplifies escrow lifecycles, enabling secure and reliable trade for farmers worldwide. Explore Revolutionary Farmers.
SafeSwap
A decentralized marketplace for buying and selling products, SafeSwap integrates the Trustless Work API to create escrow-backed payments. SafeSwap simplifies the user experience, making blockchain-backed security accessible to all. Explore SafeSwap.
SafeTrust
SafeTrust is focusing on providing a platform for secure deposits for house rentals. They have a beautifully designed UI that aims to make the process user-friendly and secure. SafeTrust leverages blockchain and Trustless Work to safeguard deposits and payments, providing transparency and security for every operation. This ensures that users, especially those dealing with cryptocurrency, can trust the system. Explore SafeTrust.
Semaphore Stellar
Semaphore Stellar is bringing privacy and identity tools to the Stellar ecosystem. This project originated from an attempt to build privacy-focused escrows during a recent hackathon using Trustless Work. Although they faced challenges, they identified an opportunity to use Semaphore—a zero-knowledge protocol used for privacy and identity—to enable privacy features in Stellar-based applications. By implementing Semaphore’s functionalities, this project will enable developers to seamlessly integrate advanced privacy tools into their applications. Explore Semaphore Stellar.
Why Open Source Matters for Stellar
Open source is more than a development philosophy—it’s a force multiplier. It accelerates innovation, fosters collaboration, and builds shared success ecosystems. For Stellar, this means enabling developers to build impactful solutions that serve real-world needs while lowering barriers to entry.
The projects in this campaign demonstrate the breadth of possibilities open source brings to the Stellar ecosystem. By leveraging blockchain’s trustless and decentralized capabilities, these teams are creating tools and platforms that are both scalable and transformative."
Other amazing Stellar projects that are participating are the following:
Create-soroban-dapp: helps developers to kickstart their Soroban journey with all the needed configuration for a web3 project.
Soroban is an incredibly useful network for on-ramps and off-ramps, offering very low costs and rapid transaction speeds. With Soroban, you can create a wide range of DeFi protocols or tokens effortlessly.
Soroswap.Finance: One of the pioneers within the Stellar blockchain ecosystem, Soroswap stands as a testament to the potential of decentralization and automation in the world of cryptocurrency exchanges. Help them develop this amazing open source DEX on Soroban!
Paystell: The project seeks to promote the adoption of alternative payment methods powered by the Stellar ecosystem in both physical and digital stores, providing a seamless, fast, reliable, and cost-effective payment experience.
On the Starknet side we've got a number of new projects motivated to onboard new contributors as well as a few returning ones! Let's look at the list below:
Strapex: Strapex is an open-source payment gateway inspired by Stripe, designed to democratize access to a free, secure, and decentralized way of transacting with businesses. By leveraging Starknet, Strapex enables fast, secure, and cost-effective transactions, while offering the enhanced user experience that Starknet provides.
CofiBlocks: An innovative, blockchain-powered collaborative platform designed to transform the coffee industry by connecting coffee enthusiasts directly with producers. Built on Starknet and utilizing Next.js with TypeScript, CofiBlocks is the first platform of its kind, offering both direct marketplace interactions and community-driven decision-making.
This repository contains the full-stack codebase powering the CofiBlocks platform, including the Web3 marketplace, collaborative business model features, and NFT art collection.
More info over here!
Token Giver: A decentralized application designed to revolutionize charity and fundraising. With Token Giver, users can create and manage campaigns by minting unique campaign NFTs, which have Token Bound Accounts (TBA) deployed on them automatically. This enables seamless and secure donations using STRK tokens.
Citizen of Arcanis: is a multiplayer on-chain game set in a cyberpunk world that leverages blockchain technology to offer players a unique and decentralized experience. Players take on the role of "Citizens of Arcanis," reborn warriors who explore and fight in an environment filled with rival factions.
Go Stark Me is back! Their project is a Starknet funding platform where you can upload your cause and recollect votes (called "stars") to be able to receive donations.
You can upload early stage projects and also charitable organizations. The community would send STRKs to the contract and once the goal is reached or the cause owners decide it, they can withdraw the amount of STRKs they have collected.
Starknet Quest: They help protocols attract and retain users by creating gamified quest experiences on Starknet. If you want to understand more, we have a detailed blog post by contributor Solène right here.
Carbonable: Carbonable is leveraging Cairo and Starknet to enhance carbon removal's actionability and verifiability. Their technology promotes transparency and validates sustainability efforts in various sectors, aiming to be a guiding force for both individuals and organizations towards environmentally verifiable actions.
Nicera Labs: Nicera Labs is at the intersection of autonomous art and technology, developing open-source libraries that facilitate the fusion of artistic creativity and tech innovation. Through collaboration with Nicera Dance Company, they extend these efforts into live performances, pushing the boundaries of interactive and autonomous art.
DeRisk: The project provides a user-friendly, open-source monitoring tool for the DeFi sector, focusing on preventing loans from becoming underwater.
It connects directly with lending platforms and liquidity providers to continuously evaluate the status of loans in relation to current market conditions. This integration allows DeRisk to offer timely alerts and actionable insights to DeFi platforms, helping them manage liquidity more efficiently. By ensuring that funds are available when necessary and conserved otherwise, DeRisk helps maintain financial stability and prevent crises within the DeFi ecosystem.
AFK-Aligned Farm Kennel is back! The project is an all-in-one consumer app, with the Social graph of Ethereum & Bitcoin, using Nostr as a SocialFi graph with Starknet to bring the Aligned Fam together.
Peer Protocol: Experience the power of decentralized finance, earn interest and unlock borrowing possibilities across a diverse range of assets and pools on our lightning-fast, cost-effective, and highly scalable peer-to-peer lending protocol.
Key features include:
- Cross-chain compatibility for diverse asset lending and borrowing
- User-defined lending terms and conditions
- Direct marketplace connecting borrowers and lenders
- Support for a wide variety of coins and tokens
- Easy-to-use interface for creating and finding lending proposals
Spotnet: This project allows users to leverage their positions on assets (e.g., ETH) by looping through lending protocols (ZkLend) and automated market makers (AMMs). They will be opening issues related to new features, refactoring tasks
and small improvements.
ByteBeasts: is a on-chain RPG that merges a dynamic NFT collection with the excitement of mobile gaming. By leveraging Dojo and Unity, they deliver a unique mobile experience that is accessible from anywhere.
Starknet by example (Nethermind): Who doesn't love Nethermind projects. This time, we're introducing Starknet by Example, a collection of examples of how to use the Cairo programming language to create smart contracts on Starknet.
Chaineventts: This project is a ticket management platform built on the Starknet blockchain, empowering users to effortlessly create, manage, and attend events as well as sell tickets.
The platform provides event organizers with tools to oversee events and mint Proof of Attendance NFTs for each attendee at the conclusion of the event.
LandVer: This project is a decentralized platform designed to transform the way land transactions and real-world assets are managed onchain.
It utilizes blockchain technology to provide a secure, transparent, and immutable system for managing land registration, verification, transfer, and tokenization. With Landver real-world assets such as land can be registered, tokenized, transferred, and verified on the blockchain.
ScanGuard: Last but not least, this project is a platform designed to help users verify the authenticity of products by simply scanning their QR codes. When scanned, the complete details of the product are displayed, providing instant verification of its authenticity. Users can quickly determine whether a product is genuine or counterfeit, ensuring users always get the best product.
Stark-Cairo-Nodes: This project aims to provide a comprehensive collection of example programs and smart contracts written in Cairo, tailored for educational initiatives like Starknet bootcamps and workshops. The repository includes built-in methods to easily run scripts and smart contracts, helping both newcomers and experienced developers quickly deploy and interact with contracts on the Starknet ecosystem.
Auto-Swappr: Lastly, but not least, a new project on the platform: your one-stop-shop to guard against highly volatile non-stable crypto assets. Simplifying auto swapping of non-stables to stables.