Stellar.org Monthly Roundup - January 2019

View this email in your browser January 2019 Roundup Stellar Ecosystem News   AnchorUSD has added an USD off-ramp with SEP-0006 support. This is the first totally seamless integration that allows any Stellar application to provide USD deposit and withdrawal directly from their users' bank accounts. If you're interested in integrating AnchorUSD into your application, you can reach out to them via the contact form at the bottom of their website. Integration tooling will also be released soon. SatoshiPay has launched three new full Stellar validators and a new multi-signature wallet for Stellar. With these releases comes updated validator Docker images, a full-history catch-up script for Stellar Core, and additional Horizon API instances. A Stellar Day is a community-created initiative to help spread the word about Stellar through Keybase and social media. Shout out to community members: wouterarkink for organizing the event, Looney for building the website, Speakoespanglish for making the logo, and Georgenaylor, magofox, and Tallship for their feedback. You can read more about "A Stellar Day" here. Grayscale has added Lumens support to their platform. Alpha Point announced support for Stellar Lumens. More than 100 AlphaPoint-powered exchanges can now support lumens for deposit, withdrawal, custody, and trading with fiat and cryptocurrency pairings. SDF New Hires Graydon Hoare Senior Developer Graydon has worked on a variety of open-source systems-level software, including revision control, network servers, programming languages and performance and debugging tools. He contributed to the early design and implementation of stellar-core, and enjoys long walks and reading history.   Tomer Weller Software Engineer Tomer helps companies build on Stellar. He's a graduate of the MIT Media Lab, where he worked on digital fabrication technologies, 3d glass printing and fostering maker communities. In the past, he has taught full stack and mobile software development in Israel.  Tomer is passionate about hummus, glass blowing, and LISP. Boris Reznikov Director of Partnerships Boris returns to the SDF after stints at Lightyear and Interstellar, and will continue to focus on growing the network with high quality projects and applications. He enjoys foreign languages, riding bicycles, and eating pistachios. During off-hours you'll find Boris advocating for car-free transportation alternatives (read: more bikes!)   We are hiring! Apply today.   Community Articles: StellarGuard has created a valuable guide to help users recognize "Hard Fork Scams" - Read Now "What is Stellar?" by Lumenauts - Watch Now "Why Tokenize Gift Cards and Vouchers on Stellar" by Rehive - Read Now   Stellar Developer Updates   Released Stellar-Core 10.1.0 with stability improvements. Released Horizon 0.15.4 with small fixes and improvements. Testnet Reset -- Rescheduled for February 27, 2019 If you're developing on Stellar, please take some time to fill out our Horizon Developer Survey Kelp (Trade Bot) 1.3.0 has been released https://github.com/interstellar/kelp/releases/tag/v1.3.0 Stellar Burrito is a simple wrapper for js-stellar-sdk that developers can use for basic operations on the Stellar such as creating new accounts and creating new assets.   Reminder! The Stellar StackExchange is in Public Beta – We are currently using StackExchange to help developers find the answers they need when working on projects. Come join the community!   Upcoming Events  Lisa and Zac @ CoinList The new clusters program continues to grow! Below are upcoming Stellar cluster group events: Munich, Germany meet-up January 29th  Cape Town, South Africa meetup March 6-8. (Event details will be listed here soon) If you're interested in starting a cluster in your area, please use this form. New Projects and Project Updates FactR is bringing blockchain to the freight and logistics industries. It has recently been listed on the IBM Marketplace. Swych unveiled its Stellar-based blockchain gifting and shopping platform.  No Rest Labs & MouseBelt announce entry into Stellar ecosystem. Together, No Rest Labs and MouseBelt help early stage companies grow. Both teams are now actively exploring collaborations in the Stellar ecosystem. Biccos adds Stellar Lumens Streami has launched GOPAX Indonesia, including IDR / XLM trading support. Stellarport.io has added Trezor support to their service. BlockEq has released a new major update to their wallet application Interstellar.exchange released v3.5 of their application with many new features included  The Reddit community is exploring potentially adding Photons (subreddit governance points) to SDEX. If you're an /r/Stellar regular, let your voice be heard in the discussion thread. Meet The Community DISCLAIMER:  Stellar.org does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). Please conduct due diligence and interact with these organizations at your discretion. Safety Policy: The Stellar team will NEVER ask you for your private keys. We will NEVER ask you to deposit funds to any wallet address. Read our Security Guide for more information. Copyright © 2018 Stellar Development Foundation. All rights reserved. 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