Stellar Roundup - April 2019

View this email in your browser Monthly Roundup April 2019 Stellar Ecosystem Updates Stellar has launched as Coinbase's largest Earn partner to-date. In conjunction with their team, we've created five videos that explain Stellar's features and uses. Learn more here.   IBM announced the launch of World Wire, a real-time global payments system built on the Stellar network. SDF recently sat down to talk with Jesse Lund, Vice President of IBM Blockchain, to get his take on Stellar and World Wire and why the two platforms make sense together.   Smartlands, which recently became fully FCA-regulated has launched their inaugural STO with the tokenization of a student dormitory in the United Kingdom. The team is working towards obtaining a MTF license that will permit secondary trading for these and future security issuances on the Smartlands platform.   BlockPark has launched Stellar-based Blok Tokens, which represent tokenized shares of equity in a mixed-use residential/commercial property development in downtown Las Vegas. Blok Tokens entitle holders to dividends and serve as a medium of exchange in their forthcoming SaaS property management software.  SDF New Hires   Kolten Bergeron, Community Manager Before joining Stellar, Kolten worked in the sports and esports industries as a social media coordinator and video editor.   Kyle McCollom, Product Manager - Stellar.org Kyle used to run Lumenauts.com and now works on Stellar.org. He is a fan of light electric vehicles and making margs.   Becca Miller, Social Media Strategy, Consultant Previously at Call of Duty and Vice, Becca now works on the Community team at Stellar. Catch her at karaoke, Korean bbq, or weird Oakland house parties.   Bruno Müller, Product Bruno used to work as Chief Design Officer at Cheesecake Labs, a software design and development company in Brazil. Bruno is a big fan of art, video games and craft beer.   Alex Cordeiro, Senior Platform Engineer Alex co-founded and is the former COO of Cheesecake Labs, a software design and development company in Brazil. Alex loves writing, playing guitar and coding in weird programming languages.   We are hiring! Apply today. Stellar Community Articles Drafting Off-Chain Account Metadata for Stellar Network "'Metadata' sounds quite mysterious and certainly obscure. Why do we need it at all? Stellar works quite well as-is, so why should we try to invent this strange conceptual something something?" Help! I forgot my Stellar Memo "I recently transferred lumens from one exchange to another. My transaction is confirmed on the blockchain, but I'm not receiving them in my exchange account. Can you guys help?" Stellar Developer Updates JS Stellar Base 0.13.0 and JS Stellar SDK 0.15.0 released, adds timebounds support. Kelp v1.6.1 released, which now supports trading and market-making on centralized exchanges Survey - How do you use Kelp bot? Community Developer Releases Astrograph.io, an open-source server providing GraphQL interface to Stellar network Scala SDK v0.6.3 released StellarQtSDK v.0.1.8 released .NET SDK v2.1.23 released, exposes TransactionResult objects Stellar Events Upcoming Berlin Cluster Meetup - May 9 Workshop: Create your own Stellar Token (Crypto-Asset) in Munich - April 30 Past Meet Stellar @ Mexico City Meetup - April 8 Project Releases Pedity platform has moved to the live Stellar network in Alpha 0.2. Solar Wallet has opened sign-ups for early access testing of its Android and IOS wallet. Stellarport has released a desktop app for Windows. HTC Exodus, Zion Vault, now supports Stellar lumens. Scopuly, an SDEX wallet and interface, has relaunched with an upgraded UI and feature set. ButtonWallet, a telegram-based wallet, has added Lumens support. Trust Wallet now supports Stellar Lumens. Interstellar Exchange has released a new desktop interface and Multisig Plus. Task.io is a platform where people can create or discover projects. It's a place where tasks are completed, activities are verified, and people are rewarded with locally relevant Stellar-based tokens for taking part.   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 © 2019 Stellar Development Foundation, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates with Stellar.org Our mailing address is: Stellar Development Foundation PO Box 192750 PMB 24194 San Francisco, CA 94119 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.