Boundless Wins Stellar Community Fund Build Award

🎉 More great news from the Stellar ecosystem.

Boundless has received a Stellar Community Fund Build Award to support the development of its milestone-based funding and collaboration platform on Stellar.

This isn’t just a grant announcement.
It’s a signal.

A signal that the ecosystem is aligning around a hard, persistent problem in Web3 and open innovation:

Funding without accountability doesn’t scale.

The problem Boundless is solving

Grants, hackathons, bounties, and crowdfunding all suffer from the same structural flaw:

Funds are paid upfront
Oversight is manual
Accountability is off-chain
Reporting is often retroactive and opaque

This creates misaligned incentives on all sides:

Funders lack visibility into execution
Builders face trust barriers
Organizers rely on process instead of infrastructure

Boundless was built to change that.

How Boundless works

Boundless introduces a simple but powerful primitive to funding flows: milestone-based escrow.

By leveraging Soroban smart contracts on Stellar together with Trustless Work’s escrow infrastructure, Boundless enables:

Funds to be escrowed, not prepaid
Work to be structured into clear, verifiable milestones
Payouts to occur only when milestones are completed and validated
Every action to be publicly verifiable on-chain

No custodians.
No manual reconciliation.
No opaque trust assumptions.

Just programmable trust.

This transforms grants, bounties, and crowdfunding from administrative processes into scalable, verifiable infrastructure.

An open-source origin story

One detail that makes this milestone especially meaningful for us:
0xDevCollins, founder of Boundless, is an early contributor to Trustless Work.

This is exactly why we invest so deeply in open source.

People don’t just submit pull requests — they learn the system, understand the primitives, and start imagining what else can be built on top.

In this case, a contribution turned into:

Deep product understanding
A new idea
A new team
And now, a funded platform building real infrastructure on Stellar

Seeing contributors grow into founders — and founders grow into ecosystem partners — is the compounding effect of open source done right.

We’re incredibly proud of the growth of 0xDevCollins and the Boundless team, and grateful that a simple contribution helped kick-start what we hope becomes a long-term partnership.

From MVP to mainnet

The Stellar Community Fund Build Award validates both:

The problem Boundless is tackling
The infrastructure-first approach they’re taking to solve it

With this support, the Boundless team is moving forward with:

Testnet and mainnet deployment
Builder and ecosystem partner onboarding
Establishing Stellar as a foundation for fair, transparent, and scalable funding

Importantly, Boundless is starting from Africa, where access to reliable funding infrastructure can unlock real economic opportunity for builders and communities.