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Boundless

Hackathons, bounties, grants and crowdfunding in one place, all paying out on Stellar. I co-founded it and built the backend that moves the money.

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Builders need funding and communities want to back them. Boundless brings hackathons, bounties, grants and crowdfunding into one place, with payouts that land on-chain.

I co-founded it and built the backend: the part that has to be right every single time money moves.

350+
Merged pull requests across the backend and platform
4
Ways to fund builders: hackathons, bounties, grants and crowdfunding

What I built

  • One backend, four ways to get funded

    Hackathons, bounties, grants and crowdfunding share one NestJS service, with authentication, organisations and smart wallets built in.

  • Indexers that can only watch

    On-chain indexers follow Stellar and report what they see, but they have no write access to business state. Even a compromised indexer can't move funds.

  • Built to stay up

    GraphQL and REST APIs backed by BullMQ queues, Redis caching, rate limiting and health checks, over PostgreSQL and Prisma.

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