Application of the Week

You may have noticed that SDF recently took part in sponsoring its first collegiate hackathon! I was there, which is why there wasn’t a Dev Digest last week.

We spent a ton of time interfacing with an awesome group of developers who chose to build their hackathon projects on Stellar, and Tyler and I talked about our experience on the most recent episode of the Stellar Community Podcast. Check that out here! You can find some pictures from the event here and here.

This week’s featured project: the winner of the Stellar category of HackNYU — Stellar Tip!

Stellar Tip is a chrome extension that enables users to tip both crypto and fiat currency to content creators and developers on platforms like Youtube, Twitch, and Github. Using Stellar’s powerful decentralized platform, Stellar Tip enables consumers to instantly send transactions to their favorite creators or developers without having to pay fees or being limited to a specific currency.

You can see the full proposal here. We chose this project as the winner of the Stellar category because it’s fully functional, has a slick user interface and user experience, integrates SEP-0007 (delegated signing), and they effectively stores metadata in the memo field. Congratulations to the Stellar Tip team! 🎉

Two other projects that deserve some praise are the second place project, Orbit, and the third place project, Bob. Make sure to check out their proposals as well!