DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Stellar Development Foundation published a whitepaper explaining how the Stellar network is uniquely suited for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), detailing its asset issuance features, consensus mechanism, and implementation guidance for central banks.
An educational overview of blockchain fundamentals, explaining how distributed ledgers work, their advantages over centralized databases, and comparisons of major blockchain platforms including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stellar.
This article explains the role of lumens (XLM), Stellar's native token, in the network's design. Lumens serve as a modest barrier to prevent spam and abuse while keeping the network accessible, with a minimum balance requirement of 1 lumen and transaction fees of 0.00001 XLM.
The Stellar Development Foundation's Twitter account was compromised via SIM swap attack on July 8, 2023, used to spread phishing scams. SDF regained control within 6 hours and upgraded security protocols across all platforms to use stronger authentication methods like security keys.
This article explores the various consensus mechanisms available in Hyperledger Fabric, including PBFT, Kafka, Raft, Solo, and IBFT. It details their characteristics, use cases, and how they integrate with Fabric's architecture like ordering services and endorsement policies. A brief mention of Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) appears in the context of external consensus integration.
The Stellar Newsletter highlights upcoming events like Meridian 2023 in Madrid with Idris Elba, MoneyGram's USDC case study on Stellar, and Coinbase's integration with USDC on the network. It covers improvements to the Anchor Directory, wallet on/off-ramp integrations, Soroban infrastructure projects, and a new Soroban security bug bounty. Developer updates include proposed transaction changes and SCF submission best practices.
Carole House, former White House cybersecurity director, discusses crypto's role in financial crime investigations, regulatory enforcement, and the push for an enabling US regulatory environment for digital currencies.
The Stellar Development Foundation launched a new bug bounty program on HackerOne focused on Soroban, the network's smart contract platform. The program offers rewards up to $50k for critical vulnerabilities, with higher bounties as Soroban matures toward Mainnet launch.
Source of Tales releases early access for Windows, Linux, and Android, featuring Stellar wallet login via Albedo. Funded by Stellar Community Fund #10 grant from Stellar Development Foundation, it implements blockchain-based authentication using a custom Mana Stellar Bridge. Further Stellar integrations for character data storage are planned.
Tomer Weller from Stellar Development Foundation interviews Cubist co-founders Fraser Brown and Riad Wahby about building security-focused developer tools for cross-chain Web3 development. Cubist received a Stellar Bridge Bounty grant and discusses why they integrated with Stellar.
AnChain.AI, a Web3 security firm, integrated with Stellar to provide AI-powered risk management and fraud prevention tools for developers building on the network. The integration enables Stellar developers to access AnChain.AI's security solutions from the earliest phases of development.
FxDAO critiques traditional DAO governance models like 'more shares, more votes' for favoring whales, insiders, and early participants, proposing a novel system combining modified democratic voting, quadratic voting, and anti-spam measures. Key features include locking tokens for proposals and votes that redistribute to participants, human verification to prevent sybil attacks, and high-threshold democratic votes for structural changes. This aims to balance fairness, participation, and security within the Stellar ecosystem.
Blend is a new liquidity protocol primitive for Stellar, enabling anyone to create insured lending pools with Soroban smart contracts. It provides lending and borrowing capabilities, adapting to market conditions while protecting suppliers via a backstop module. The protocol enhances Stellar's ecosystem for fintech, trading, DAOs, and DeFi applications.
Litemint has launched a fully non-custodial ERC-721 compliant bridge for Stellar NFTs to Ethereum, enabling secure use as profile pictures on Web3 services like Twitter. The bridge locks Stellar assets and mints corresponding non-transferable NFTs on Ethereum, with decentralized recovery mechanisms. It leverages Stellar's SEP-39 for metadata and ensures high security without relying on central entities.
BP Ventures announces sponsorship of Public Node's Stellar validator node, funding its uptime and monitoring. This supports the growth of the Stellar network and Public Node's mission for open blockchain infrastructure. The partnership highlights commitment to inclusive blockchain technology.
Stellar Development Foundation explains why Soroban's initial release uses the WASMI interpreter instead of a JIT compiler, citing security concerns, simplicity, and the complexity of integrating JIT with blockchain-specific requirements like metering.
The Stellar Newsletter highlights recent ecosystem developments including Soroban smart contracts live on Futurenet with a $100M developer fund and Sorobanathon. It covers Meridian 2022 on-demand sessions, Stellar Quest Live Series 5, bridge bounty grants, and the new Anchor Platform. Additional updates include stablecoin launches, SDF investments in NetXD and Wave, and community fund discussions.
Starbridge protocol uses Stellar's existing features to enable secure token bridging between Ethereum and Stellar without smart contracts. The team formally verified the protocol with Ivy to ensure users cannot double-spend or exploit withdrawal and refund mechanisms.
Anthony Barker, CEO of BPV, spoke at the IPR Global Event 2022 panel on blockchain's future in payments and remittances. He shared insights on stablecoins, regulatory compliance, and integrating protocols like Stellar with traditional finance. The discussion highlighted blockchain's potential to enhance transaction security and efficiency for money transfer organizations.
Litemint has launched decentralized NFT auctions on the Stellar blockchain, utilizing time-bound transactions, pre-authorized transactions, and path payments for secure, trustless execution. The system ensures no third-party custody, bid protection until auction end, reserve price enforcement, and participant withdrawal rights. Full settlement occurs on the Stellar DEX via a pre-authorized contract transaction.
The Stellar Development Foundation published an updated security guide covering common scams targeting the Stellar community, including phishing, support fraud, look-alike assets, and false claims. SDF clarifies it never asks for private keys, controls accounts, or freezes funds, and provides guidance on protecting yourself and reporting fraud.
The Script3 team announces that YieldBlox Protocol will delay its mainnet launch on Stellar Turrets and instead wait for Stellar's on-chain smart contracts due to superior security, community focus, and feasibility concerns. They detail the decision process following SDF's roadmap announcement and unsuccessful grant proposal. The project remains committed to launching securely with the YBX token once smart contracts are ready.
YieldBlox introduces Protocol Owned Debt to eliminate liquidation cascade risks by having lending pools borrow from themselves and settle via fees, enhancing stability and capital efficiency on Stellar. It also upgrades to Growing Liability Tokens for better interest tracking and ~30% performance gains. Launch delayed by a month, with community calls planned for December.
This article details the main wallets of the Aquarius project on the Stellar blockchain, including their purposes, original AQUA token holdings, and Stellar Expert explorer links. It covers wallets for liquidity rewards, airdrops, community DAO, voting/staking rewards, emergency fund, investors, advisors/partners, and founders/team. The transparency leverages blockchain's verifiable data for AQUA holders to monitor easily.
This article explains how NFT ownership on the Stellar blockchain can be proven even in an apocalyptic scenario where services like IPFS, Stellar, and marketplaces are down. It relies on best practices from SEP-0039, using cryptographic CIDs for art and metadata, transaction reconstruction from genesis, and Ed25519 signatures. Basic math and offline computation suffice to verify ownership irrefutably.