How to Become Verified
Getting started
As your first entry into SCF, you can choose to verify your information for a Verified role, or go the extra mile to meet Pathfinder role requirements. Verified roles are limited to viewing access into governance channels, while Pathfinders may participate in Community Vote through delegation. Both Verified and Pathfinder roles are granted automatically based on verifying information in the SCF Dashboard.
Join the Stellar Developer Discord;
Verify at least one social account on your Discord using linked roles;
Register on the SCF Dashboard:
Navigate to Verified Tier section
Authenticate with a Stellar wallet address
Everything you did for Verified, plus proving you’ve acquired Stellar expertise through one of the following avenues:
Having at least one of the following roles on the Stellar Developer Discord: @SCF Project; @Ambassador President, or @SDF Discord Role; OR
Acquire a series of badges associated with your connected public Stellar wallet address with one of the following:
Stellar Quest level 1 (min. 4 badges); OR
Stellar Quest level 2 (min. 3 badges); OR
Stellar Quest level 3 (min. 2 badges); OR
Stellar Quest Live series 1-5 (min. 2 badges); OR
Stellar Quest Side quests (min. 2 badges); OR
FCA00C (min. 1 badges); OR
Soroban Quest (min. 2 badges); OR
RPCiege (min. 15 badges).
Verification is completed through the SCF Dashboard and granted automatically once requirements are met for either role. Please allow for a few hours for your Discord role to be added to your account. If you encounter any issues, please ping a moderator on the Stellar Developer Discord for support or email communityfund@stellar.org.
Grow your influence in SCF
Navigators and Pilots play a more direct and impactful role in SCF governance, and are unlocked through acquired voting power relative to the total voting power in a given round, and approved by a number of community members with a higher role than they currently have.
Relative voting power is powered by SCF’s implementation of Neural Quorum Governance and represents a member’s standing compared to other verified members, and is influenced by:
Acquired Discord roles
Historic voting behavior
Inclusion in other members’ trusted user lists
Once you’ve participated in an SCF Build Award round for Community Vote, you can log into the SCF Dashboard to understand your current growth journey in SCF governance and the breakdown of your voting power for each round.
Relative Voting Power Eligibility Requirement
Top ~33.3%
Top ~16.7%
Approving Requirements
Min. 5 Navigators and/or Pilots, no downvotes
Min. 5 Pilots, no downvotes
Opportunities
Vote actively for projects to allocate SCF Build Awards (Open Track), and be considered for invitation to virtual and IRL events.
Everything of Navigator, plus the ability to become a Quarterly Delegate, and be included in Pilot-only conversations on key strategy topics, and propose, contribute and vote for governance proposals.
Nomination Process
If you meet the Relative Voting Power Eligibility Requirement (visible on the Voting History tab in the SCF Dashboard) for the Navigator or Pilot role, you’re invited to nominate yourself to acquire it. Nominations are welcome at any time.
Approval Process
Navigator and Pilot nominations are reviewed during scheduled approval windows prior to each round’s Community Vote phase, which occurs twice per quarter:
Coinciding with quarterly delegate selection;
Prior to the Community Vote round opening mid-quarter.
If the nomination was not approved, the community member can nominate themselves again prior to the following SCF Build Award round.
Note: Nominated and selected quarterly delegates (current or historic) that work at the Stellar Development Foundation (signified by the @SDF Role are exempt from the Nomination and Approval process) and can be assigned with either role directly by a Discord admin.
Maintaining Roles & Downgrades
Verified roles reflect current contribution and trust, not historical achieved status.
Automated (Gradual) Downgrades
A member will see a warning status on the SCF Dashboard as well as receive a warning message on Discord and/or email if their relative NQG score falls below the required threshold for their role. If this condition persists for three (3) consecutive Community Vote rounds, they will be automatically downgraded.
Immediate Downgrades
In exceptional cases (e.g. serious Stellar Code of Conduct violations), Pilots may nominate an immediate downgrade or entire removal of roles for the user in question for downgrade or removal of tiers entirely, which needs to be supported by at least 5 Pilots.
In sensitive cases where anonymity and/or threading lightly is of essence, any verified member can remove a user in question from their trusted user list. If it causes a significant drop in voting power from these actions (i.e. a lot of users with (significant) voting power untrust this user), it triggers an accelerated loss of voting power for this user (and thus initiating the automated downgrade process).
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