AI-Powered Livestock Guardian on Stellar Blockchain
StellarHerd is a startup hybrid project that empowers smallholder livestock farmers with intelligent AI tools while rewarding sustainable practices through the Stellar network.
Farmers get real-time health advice, early disease detection, and herd management tools. Sustainable actions (better grazing, reduced emissions, animal welfare) are verified and rewarded with tokenized assets on Stellar.
Smallholder farmers lose 20-40% of income due to preventable livestock diseases, poor nutrition, and climate stress. They also lack access to premium markets and carbon credit systems.
StellarHerd solves this by combining:
- Accessible AI veterinary advice (photo + voice)
- Simple herd management
- Transparent on-chain rewards via Stellar & Soroban
Key Impact Areas:
- Reduced animal mortality and antibiotic use
- Improved farmer income and food security
- Lower methane emissions through optimized practices
- Increased on-chain activity and RWA issuance on Stellar
- Multilingual voice/text AI advisor
- Computer vision disease & symptom detection
- Predictive alerts (illness, estrus, heat stress)
- Offline-first herd logging
- Tokenized sustainability rewards (Soroban smart contracts)
- Traceable livestock passports as Stellar Assets
- Low-fee payments and marketplace settlements
- Optional Farmer DAOs for cooperatives
/mobile-app— Flutter farmer mobile application/frontend— Next.js web dashboard (for cooperatives & admins)/backend— Server, AI inference & business logic/contracts— Soroban smart contracts (Rust)
- Mobile: Flutter + TensorFlow Lite + stellar_flutter_sdk
- Web: Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind
- Backend: Node.js / Python + Supabase + Hugging Face
- Blockchain: Stellar + Soroban (Rust)
- AI: Multimodal models (vision + LLM)
Phase 1 (MVP): AI advisor + basic Stellar reward claiming (Cattle & Goats)
Phase 2: Full Soroban contracts + traceability + sensor support
Phase 3: Multi-country expansion + DAO tools + B2B dashboards
- Freemium mobile app
- Premium AI insights & analytics
- Marketplace commissions
- Web3 facilitation fees (reward minting & trading)
- B2B SaaS for cooperatives and exporters
Core AI libraries, Soroban contract templates, and data schemas are MIT licensed.
We actively welcome contributions from the Stellar community.
- GitHub:
https://github.com/stellarherd - Discord / Telegram: (links coming soon)
- Applying to Stellar Community Fund (SCF)
Built for smallholder farmers • Powered by Stellar • Driven by AI
Star ⭐ this repo if you're excited about impactful agritech on Stellar!