DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The article details the YBX airdrop for YieldBlox, a DeFi protocol on the Stellar blockchain, with 10 million YBX tokens distributed across three airdrops targeting community members, beta testers, and Stellar ecosystem users. Participants must meet Stellar account age requirements and set up a YBX trustline. Additional incentives include ScripTee NFT distributions for educational content and community engagement.
Litemint, a Stellar Community Fund winner, shares lessons from applying to SCF twice: identifying community gaps, engaging with the ecosystem, and launching products iteratively. The gaming and NFT platform has grown to 1,400+ NFTs and 65,000+ tradable units on Stellar.
This article explains how to use the Stellar network for everyday payments and remittances, emphasizing its speed, low cost, and ecological benefits over traditional banking. It covers wallet options like Keybase, Lobstr, Freighter, and hardware wallets, security best practices, and methods to spend XLM via exchanges or crypto debit cards. The author shares personal experiences sending XLM to family members.
This article explains NFTs using analogies like baseball cards and highlights their potential for artists, musicians, and gamers. It focuses on Litemint, a low-cost NFT platform built on the Stellar blockchain, where the author minted their own artwork for just $1.86. The piece critiques media hype around high-profile NFT sales while emphasizing benefits like direct royalties and ownership decentralization.
The Stellar Community Fund announced its first Seed Round finalists: LITEMINT, a gaming platform with NFT marketplace on Stellar, and Script3's OptionBlox and YieldBlox, DeFi protocols for derivatives and lending. Voting begins April 26.
The article contrasts traditional payment apps like Venmo with Stellar's blockchain for low-cost, borderless remittances. It highlights Stellar's negligible transaction fees, decentralized exchange for fair rates, and adoption by Franklin Templeton. The author, a self-described no-coiner, expresses optimism about cryptocurrency's potential to empower the unbanked.
This article explains the Stellar DEX pricing limitation for indivisible NFT tokens due to INT32 constraints and presents Litemint's solution using synthetic assets and path payments. It details how small stroop amounts cause offer price overflows and demonstrates a workaround for high-value NFT trades. The post includes JavaScript code examples for implementing bids and offers that automatically handle the limitation.