| A Message From Our Executive Director | | | "I believe it's the power of community that drives change. Meridian 2020 will be about fostering discussions around how the work of the Stellar community can and will have tangible impacts on our world."
Denelle Dixon
CEO and Executive Director | | | | Stellar Ecosystem Updates New in the Ecosystem | | Compliance and the Stellar Network "Regulations and compliance aren't new to blockchain. As in other industries, businesses have to follow existing regulations that apply to the function or service that they provide to their users." Read the article → | | | COINQVEST Introduces its Enterprise Cryptocurrency Processing Platform for Online Merchants
COINQVEST has released its enterprise cryptocurrency payment processing platform. Online merchants can now accept Bitcoin and other digital currencies from clients and settle in their preferred fiat currency (e.g. USD, EUR, NGN, or CAD).
Read the article → | | Announcing Meridian 2020
Mark your calendars: Stellar's 2nd annual Meridian conference is set for November 16 to 20, 2020 — coming to you as a virtual event, free for everyone. Sign up at http://meridian.stellar.org to get the latest on speakers, program, and be the first to know when registration is open!
Learn more → | | Stellar Community Fund Submissions are Open
Round 5 of the Stellar Community Fund has begun! The SCF is an opportunity for developers and content creators in the Stellar ecosystem to share their projects with the community for a chance to win from a pool of 3,000,000 lumens.
Learn more → | | I'm Still Betting on Blockchain to Improve Economic Opportunity
"A decentralized system could be a way to empower people with greater access to financial services that are fast and affordable."
Read the article → | | | Kelp GUI Pre-release
SDF announced that the first pre-release of the Kelp GUI is now available for download. Kelp is a free, customizable, open-source trading bot for the Stellar universal marketplace.
Learn more → | | New Stellar Analytics Dataset
The Stellar Development Foundation has released a daily-updated analytics dataset to enable fast analysis of the entire history of Stellar network transactions.
Learn more → | | | Stellar Developer Updates New for Stellar Developers | | Protocol 13 Release
06/18/2020: Public network vote to upgrade to Protocol 13 — Everyone who uses the public network will need to be prepared for that vote to go through. If your software isn't up to date and the network upgrades, your Stellar integration will likely break.
Stellar Core v13.0.0, Horizon 1.3.0, and new versions of the Go, JS, Java, Python, C# .NET, iOS, and Scala Stellar SDKs all support Protocol 13. If you haven't read the preparation guide you should do so now.
Learn more → | | How We Simplified Fees on Stellar Stellar protocol designer, Jonathan Jove, explains the upcoming Protocol 13 changes to fees on Stellar Developer blog. Read the article → | | | | Stellar Community Articles and Interviews from the Stellar Community | | The Jed McCaleb Story: Founding Stellar, Ripple & the Journey from eDonkey to MtGox (Untold Stories) Watch the Video → | | | Gaming and the Stellar Network (The Public Node Podcast) Listen Now → | | | Building a Profitable Business on Blockchain with Konstantin Richter (The Stellar Podcast) Listen Now → | | | TheFutbolApp and the Stellar Network (by TFA App)
Read the Article → | | [Interview] Justin Rice - Stellar (REIMAGINE)
Watch the Video → | | Casos de uso en Stellar: Saldo (Blockchain Academy Mexico)
Read the Article → | | How does the Stellar blockchain help to digitize real estate? (KlickOwn)
Read the Article → | | Events Upcoming Events June 5 Friday - 1:00 PM EST ∙ develeoper talk ZkVM: about the motocrab ZkVM —the zero-knowledge virtual machine — is an experimental multi-asset blockchain architecture for scalable and confidential smart contracts. In this talk, Software Engineer and ZkVM mastermind Oleg Andreev will catch you up on the project, let you know where it is, where it's going, and what it means for the future of blockchain. Learn more →
June 16 Tuesday - 9:00 AM EST ∙ Webinar Anchor Basics: The Business and Benefits of Anchors on the Stellar Network Anchors are a fundamental part of the Stellar network. They connect the network to traditional banking rails so that all the world's currencies can interoperate on a single, seamless platform. Register now →
June 30 Tuesday - 2:00 PM EST ∙ Workshop Workshop: Stellar SEP24 (Interactive deposits/withdrawals) Tyler van der Hoeven, SDF's Ecosystem Evangelist, will host a workshop to explain SEP24 and how easy it is to implement interactive deposits and withdrawals for anchor services. Register now →
Past events Kelp Gui Dev Discussion Consensus: Fireside Chat + AMA with Jed McCaleb on Financial Inclusion SDF at Consensus : Distributed Intuitive Stellar Consensus Protocol | Mark Heynen and Seth Hertlein join SDF
"This year, SDF is focused on three priorities: ensuring the robustness of our technology, being the blockchain people know and trust, & fostering sustainable use cases. Growing our team plays a key role in delivering on these priorities. That's why we're excited to announce two hires that are essential to this work: Mark Heynen, Vice President of Business Development, and Seth Hertlein, Head of Policy & Government Relations."
Read more → | | Terence Rokop, Senior Core Engineer
Terence joins the Core engineering team eager to help ensure the long-term reliability, robustness, availability, speed, and trustworthiness of the Stellar blockchain. Terence has spent his entire career in kernel and systems software. He codes as a hobby too, with a particular passion and long-term aspiration toward designing a language enabling widespread industry use of formal verification.
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