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StellarGive: Transparent Crowdfunding on Soroban

Vision

StellarGive enables anyone to raise funds for causes they care about while keeping fundraising transparent, auditable, and globally accessible. The protocol focuses on trust-minimized campaign funding, clear payout rules, and low operational friction for creators and donors.

Problem

Traditional crowdfunding platforms are centralized, opaque in fund flow, and expensive for cross-border donors. Non-profits and community organizers often cannot prove how funds were handled end-to-end.

Why Soroban

  • Predictable fees: Soroban's resource-based model avoids gas-auction volatility and supports consistent donor experience.
  • Rust safety model: Strong typing and explicit error handling reduce classes of contract bugs.
  • Stellar ecosystem reach: Fast finality and broad asset interoperability support global donations and treasury flows.

Core Product Benefits

  • Transparency: On-chain campaign state and donation records make progress verifiable.
  • Low cost: Lean contract operations and fee-aware flows help maximize funds reaching beneficiaries.
  • Global reach: Internet-native donations and wallet-based participation reduce geographic friction.

Protocol Overview

StellarGive campaigns define a target amount, deadline, accepted token, and beneficiary split. Donors contribute directly to contract-held campaign balances. Once campaign conditions are met, funds are claimed and distributed according to beneficiary share rules, with platform fee handling enforced in contract logic.

Security controls include:

  • input validation for campaign fields and token contracts,
  • checked arithmetic for value-sensitive state transitions,
  • anti-spam storage limits around campaign creation.

Roadmap

  • Q3 2026: Multi-token donations, campaign categories and discovery.
  • Q4 2026: Recurring donations, governance framework, creator analytics.
  • Q1-Q2 2027: Mobile app, cross-chain donation rails, non-profit grant onboarding.

Roadmap priorities are aspirational and can change based on community feedback and technical constraints.

Team and Acknowledgments

StellarGive is built by open-source contributors in the Stellar ecosystem. We acknowledge community reviewers, maintainers, and early users who provide product and security feedback.

License

MIT License. See the root LICENSE file.