Ten Artisam Projects Pitch at the APAC Stellar Demo Day Philippines

On July 18, 2026, ten projects from the studio took the stage at the APAC Stellar Demo Day Philippines — the national round of the APAC Stellar Hackathon, held at the GCash office, W Global Center, Bonifacio Global City. At stake: the ten slots that would represent the Philippines at the regional Grand Finale, and a share of the hackathon’s USD 60,000 prize pool.

The hackathon behind the day

The APAC Stellar Hackathon is presented by Stellar and hosted by Rise In, running from mid-May through late July 2026 across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The brief favoured working software over slideware — the organizers were explicit that projects had to show real utility, not just prototypes, and that composability with existing Stellar ecosystem tooling counted. Submissions closed July 15; the Philippine Demo Day followed three days later.

The Philippine leg was run by Stellar Philippines alongside a wide slate of local ecosystem partners, with GCash hosting the room.

Ten from the studio

Every one of these is a project we build and maintain — Demo Day was a deadline, not a one-off:

• Paiflow — drag-and-drop programmable payments. Compose a flow from triggers and actions, deploy pre-audited Soroban contracts from your own wallet. No Rust, and non-custodial throughout.
• Trexure — a unified treasury API for ZK-shielded Stellar payments: decrypt your own on-chain payment, auto-reconcile it against the fiat leg, and export an accounting-ready receipt.
• Zelyo — privacy-preserving credentials on Soroban. Prove a single claim, like a certification, without revealing the underlying document or any personal data. Prove one fact. Reveal nothing else.
• HeyPay — spend XLM at any QRPH merchant. Scan the code the merchant already has; HeyPay converts XLM→PHP and cashes out to their bank.
• UbeCode — a metered LLM gateway, wire-compatible with the Anthropic Messages API. Top up with crypto, pay per token, and run Claude Code with no card and no billing account.
• xGameFi — “Shopify for game studios.” Plug a game’s item API into a branded Stellar storefront; payments verify on-chain and items deliver via signed webhook.
• GGG — trustless tournament prize pools on Soroban. Entry fees go into a contract, a referee submits rankings, and payouts settle automatically. No custodian.
• Lantern — a non-custodial Stellar wallet that decodes every transaction into plain language, with an AI security scan that flags risky or irreversible actions before you sign.
• Krunchr — automated BIR tax compliance for Philippine freelancers, with filing-ready PDFs and a tamper-proof receipt anchored on Stellar.
• Centient — earn USDC on Stellar for ranking AI responses. Instant micro-payments, no bank account, no minimum payout.

Read together, the slate says something about where we think Stellar gets interesting: not one killer app, but payments, identity, tooling, gaming, tax, and AI data all reaching for the same settlement layer.

What Top 10 meant

The ten finalists each received a certificate recognizing them for advancing to the APAC Stellar Hackathon Grand Finale and the right to compete for a share of the USD 60,000 APAC prize pool — signed by Stellar Philippines’ country and tech leads.

Two of ours made that list: Trexure and Paiflow.

The eight that didn’t advance are not shelved. Demo Day feedback goes straight into the backlog, and several of these projects were already further along than the hackathon window required.

Thanks

To Stellar Philippines, Rise In, GCash for the venue, and the judges and mentors who gave pointed, useful feedback across a long day of pitches — thank you. Next stop: the Grand Finale.