# Corpus winners: detailed profiles of past SCF awards

This catalog of past SCF Build Award winners is the empirical anchor for every recommendation we make. Use specific winners by name when communicating with clients.

## SCF #42 winners

### The Signal, $121,000

- **Founders:** Samir Touinssi (CEO, Arch Consulting), Leo Leung (COO, Imperial Physics, Orichal Partners quant researcher).
- **Category:** B2B marketplace with Soroban escrow.
- **Track:** Integration Track.
- **Contract:** DealEscrow.rs with Atomic Splits payout logic.
- **SCF Integration List items used:** Stellar SDK, Freighter and Albedo wallets.
- **Profile:** 2 cofounders fully doxxed, prior product on Stripe Connect (50+ verified service providers), pivot to Soroban escrow for B2B settlement.
- **Why it won:** Pattern A (doxxed team) + Pattern B (named Soroban primitive) + Pattern C (ecosystem integrations) + Pattern E (sub-max budget) + clear B2B distribution.
- **Use as anchor for:** B2B marketplaces, escrow protocols, B2B settlement infrastructure, dossiers at $115K-$125K.

### Bando, $75,000

- **Category:** RWA real estate Mexico.
- **Track:** Integration Track.
- **Profile:** doxxed team with named brokerage partner in Mexico, named Mexican real-estate pilot.
- **Why it won:** narrow scope, specific pilot, regulated partner named, sub-max budget.
- **Use as anchor for:** RWA dossiers with single-country focus, dossiers at $75K-$90K.

## SCF #41 RFP winners

### Latch + KMP, RFP compliance award

- **Category:** C-Address compliance tooling for Stellar.
- **Profile:** compliance tooling for the Soroban ecosystem.
- **Why they won:** RFP fit was clear, compliance is a high-priority category for SDF.
- **Use as anchor for:** compliance tooling, audit trail infrastructure, KYC integration projects.

### Orion + OctoPos, DeFi Positions API RFP

- **Category:** DeFi positions API for Soroban.
- **Profile:** open data API for tracking DeFi positions across Stellar protocols.
- **Why they won:** RFP fit, ecosystem-wide value.
- **Use as anchor for:** indexer-style projects.

### Helix Labs, Reactor Trade vertical

- **Category:** Trading infrastructure.
- **Profile:** same co-founder as the project that lost in the same round (Reactor Trade), winner restructured to win.
- **Use as a comeback case** when a client lost a prior round with the same team.

### Rumble Fish, Block Explorer RFP

- **Category:** Soroban Block Explorer.
- **Profile:** technical depth in explorer infrastructure.
- **Use as anchor for:** block explorer or observability dossiers.

### OBSRVR Prism, Block Explorer

- **Category:** Soroban Block Explorer.
- **Profile:** technical observability layer.

## SCF #40 winners

### TheXBank, $89,500

- **Category:** Africa banking infrastructure.
- **Profile:** doxxed team, country pilot named, banking infrastructure on Stellar.
- **Why it won:** real product, doxxed team, sub-max budget.
- **Use as anchor for:** Africa or emerging-market banking dossiers at $80K-$100K.

## Prior-round ecosystem winners (not exhaustive)

These are SCF-funded projects from earlier rounds. They are typically referenced in newer dossiers as integration targets, not budget anchors.

### DeFindex

- **Category:** Yield aggregator middleware for Stellar.
- **Built by:** Palta Labs.
- **Used by:** For Yield (as allocator routing layer), Grindy (as campaign routing layer).
- **Notable:** on the SCF Integration List, signals SDF's appetite for DeFi middleware.

### Blend v2

- **Category:** Lending protocol on Soroban.
- **Used by:** For Yield, Grindy, others.
- **Notable:** lending pool primitive, on the SCF Integration List.

### Aquarius

- **Category:** Stellar DEX with ~$40M TVL.
- **Used by:** many dossiers as LP routing target.
- **Notable:** on the SCF Integration List.

### Soroswap

- **Category:** DEX aggregator on Soroban.
- **Built by:** Palta Labs.
- **Used by:** most dossiers as DEX routing layer.
- **Notable:** on the SCF Integration List.

## Targets in flight (not yet awarded)

These are dossiers The Arch Consulting is actively advising. They serve as updated budget benchmarks for new dossiers in the same category.

### Rebond, target $132,000 (SCF #44)

- **Category:** Green bond tokenization on Soroban.
- **Founders:** Manuel Vigier (CEO, ex-Credit Agricole + Amarenco 1+ GW), Bertrand Lagarde (CTO, multi-chain tokenization platform built).
- **Contracts:** GreenBondToken.rs, KYCWhitelist.rs, CouponDistributor.rs.
- **Traction:** 4 LOIs signed (LANGA International, Enervivo, Next Solar, Valorem) representing €30M pipeline, 2 distribution partners (Black Manta BaFin, Brickken DORA).
- **Use as anchor for:** RWA bond tokenization, dossiers at $125K-$135K with named LOIs.

### For Yield, target $144,000 (SCF #44)

- **Category:** Regulated DeFi yield vault.
- **Founders:** 11-person team with Quentin Hopp (ex-AXA Wealth Services), Julien Daubert (HEC, 10H11), Saturnin Paulet (Crypto and Macro 35K subscribers).
- **Contracts:** YieldVault.rs, PerfFeeModule.rs, EURC SAC wrapper.
- **Traction:** PSCA AMF dossier filed April 2026, EP simplifie filed parallel, ACCEIS audit passed, 50 HNW clients onboarded with €7-8M AUM.
- **Use as anchor for:** regulated DeFi yield, dossiers at $135K-$145K with regulatory filing.

### Solar Braves, target $121K-$132K (SCF #44 in flight)

- **Category:** Stellar-native risk-progression dungeon RPG.
- **Studio:** AveForge (live game RPS on MegaETH, 1100+ paying users, $25K revenue).
- **Team:** Gabriel Pires (CEO), Simone Mancini (COO), Tudor Stomff (Tech Lead, Bountyhive 100k + HYVE 80M USD peak + Codemelt 30+ projects), Alexandru (Frontend / Blockchain, 5+ years EVM/Solana/MultiversX, Bucharest Hackathon winner), Vitalii Molokanov (Art Director, Bloomtown shipped credit).
- **Use as anchor for:** Stellar-native consumer games, dossiers at $121K-$132K.

### Tickie, target $130K-$145K (SCF #44 in flight)

- **Category:** B2B event ticketing with Soroban secondary market and Atomic Splits royalties.
- **Founders:** Alexandre Maiolini (CEO), Sofiane-Henri Henocq (CMO), Nidhal Sabbah (CTO).
- **Traction:** 70+ B2B clients (sports clubs, festivals), 814K EUR GMV 2025, 30K EUR MRR, 1M EUR+ secured revenue, profitable since 2024, French Tech Tremplin laureate, ControlTick certified, Future of Sport laureate Viva Technology.
- **Notable advisors:** Eddie Aubin (30 years in ticketing, Forum Billetterie founder), Duong Phan (Music Tech / PIMS / Ticketr).
- **Use as anchor for:** B2B platforms with deep commercial traction extending to Stellar.

## How to use this catalog

When you write a review or budget recommendation, name 2 or 3 winners that match the client's profile, then use the same names in chat with the client. Specific past examples beat generic claims every time.