Stellar Roundup - May 2019

View this email in your browser Monthly Roundup May 2019 Stellar Ecosystem Updates Wirex has announced the launch of 26 fiat-backed stablecoins on the Stellar Network. Read more here. Stellar is now live on Keybase for everyone! You can read the full blog here. Paysend announces launch of global stablecoin. Read more here. Coinsquare now supports Stellar! Read the full release here.   Seema Phalke (Lead Developer, IBM World Wire) talks about her experience developing World Wire on the Stellar network.   SDF New Hires   Denelle Dixon, CEO/Executive Director Denelle is joining SDF after being the Chief Operating Officer of Mozilla where she oversaw business operations and relationships, revenue, internet policy, information technology, communities, program management, legal and general operations.  Denelle has a deep background in open source and in fostering an open, transparent and accountable culture and she plans to bring even more of that to SDF. Denelle loves to read, run and then relax with the house full of five boys that she and her partner share.     Debnil Sur, Software Engineer Previously on the open-source protocol team at Interstellar, Debnil now works on the SDF's Platform team. He enjoys all things basketball, politics, and urban hiking.   Nando Vieira, Senior Software Engineer Nando is joining SDF after being a software engineer at Heroku for the past 5 years. He loves music, playing guitar/bass, technology in general and walking by the beach on a sunny day.   Jeesun Kim, Frontend Engineer Jeesun is joining SDF after working as a frontend developer at a digital agency, Firstborn. She loves to cook and take a long walk in NYC. Say hello @codeandfood on twitter!   Marcus Greville, Systems and DevOps Engineer Marcus has joined the SDF to work in the Ops team, supporting the early side of the international dateline from Melbourne, Australia. He has 20+ years experience behind him building business critical Linux systems and applications. He has both the AWS Professional Architect and DevOps Prof certifications which he obtained on the one day and which he thinks is cool. He has four young children who he enjoys teaching to surf and who generally keep him young.   We are hiring! Apply today. Stellar Community Articles How could Kelp Bot help Stellar? "With the recent release of Kelp v1.6.1, I thought it would be a good time to discuss what trading bots are and how they can contribute to the growth and maturity of financial markets (e.g. the Stellar DEX)."   Stellar Network: Growth and Decentralisation - SatoshiPay "The Stellar network is a decentralised peer-to-peer network of validator nodes. These nodes run the Stellar Core software that validates incoming transactions and applies them to the last ledger to form the next one."   Daily Active Accounts on Stellar - Correct Estimates - OrbitLens "The question about the real number of active accounts in Stellar Network surfaced numerous times on Twitter and Reddit discussions. "Crypto Experts" often compare different blockchains by Daily Active Address (DAA) metric and tend to make vague assumptions about the real-world adoption based on it. "   Stellar's SEP8 to Prevent Fragmentation of SDEX and Unlock Ultimate Liquidity for Security Tokens - Smartlands "Stellar decentralized exchange (SDEX) allows anybody to create a front-end application for managing and trading of any Stellar assets. Having various interfaces for a sole orderbook allows for the development of a robust ecosystem and pooled liquidity. " Meeting Stellar [SDF] in their Brooklyn Offices - ThrillerCrypto "Car sits down and talks with Kori Higgins, Global Development Manager and Kyle McCollom Product Manager of Stellar Development Foundation. They discuss being at the forefront of unlocking the world's economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered."   Stellar Developer Updates Horizon v0.17.6 released with Stellar protocol v11 support A completely new SDF Horizon Go SDK has been released. Check out the blog post! Java-SDK 0.7.0 released with Stellar protocol v11 support. Kelp v1.7.0: Kelp now supports trading on 100+ centralized exchanges stellar-sdk and stellar-base have hit version 1.0! The latest versions improve Typescript type definitions and add protocol v11 support. Future releases will follow semver conventions. The Stellar Ticker has been rebuilt from scratch – check out the release blog post! ZkVM: a new design for fast, confidential smart contracts Stellar's Testnet has been migrated to Protocol 11, and we are planning on coordinating the public network to migrate in early June. Stellar Core v11.1.0's first release candidate is available for download on Github. Community Developer Releases Solar Wallet iOS & Android Beta Major Stellar Expert Update Protocol 11 Compatibility for SDKs JavaScript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/stellar-sdk and https://www.npmjs.com/package/stellar-base Python: https://pypi.org/project/stellar-sdk/ Go: https://github.com/stellar/go/releases/tag/horizonclient-v1.2.0 C#: https://www.nuget.org/packages/stellar-dotnet-sdk iOS: https://cocoapods.org/pods/stellar-ios-mac-sdk Project Releases & Updates Stellar Lumens have been added as collateral option on YouHodler lending platform  MintX launches redeemable Gold, silver, platinum & palladium backed tokens on Stellar SWplug has released v1.1.5 for its Wordpress WooCommerce plugin Coinbase Earn program for Stellar is now live internationally Stellar 2-way Payment System created with Squeezer Stellar Events Upcoming Lisa Nestor @ Crypto Valley Conference Past B3 Summit Stellar Berlin Cluster Stellar Blockchain Week Event DISCLAIMER:  Stellar.org does not endorse any third party organizations that are named in this and/or any other communication(s). 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Presented by Subscribe | View in browser $BTC (2:50 p.m. EST): $7,734.28 (-3.17%) // 90-day high: $8,320.82 // 90-day low: $3,733.75 / / More… $ETH (2:50 p.m. EST): $245.32 (-4.29%) // 90-day high: $275.39 // 90-day low: $125.40 // More…       1. 60 Minutes ran a special on bitcoin titled 'Bitcoin's Wild Ride' hosted by Anderson Cooper on Sunday night. The documentary covered Charlie Shrem, the founder of Bitinstant; Laszlo Hanyecz, known as having completed the first real-world transaction involving bitcoin; and Marco Streng, the CEO of Genesis Mining. Searches online for 'bitcoin', 'what is bitcoin', and 'how to buy bitcoin' surged after 60 Minutes aired its bitcoin program special. Did you tune in last night? If so, what are your thoughts on 60 Minutes coverage of bitcoin? Let me know! -CBS NEWS       2. A study published by Chainalysis showed that 33 percent of the circulating supply of Ether is owned by 376 individuals. The study showed that these whales had no meaningful impact on the overall Ether price but their transaction velocity did increase the volatility in the crypto market when they made large sell-offs or purchases. 60% of these whales were deemed to be non-active traders and are holding Ether as a long term investment. -COIN DESK       A MESSAGE FROM LINODE Need a server up and running today? Have your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location and instantly deploy an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Now offering Dedicated CPU instances, designed for all high performance computing needs.  Here's $20 worth of hosting on us to get you started. 3. Facebook registered its blockchain payments company Libra Networks in Switzerland. The filing shows that the Swiss-based company is focusing on blockchain and payments as well as data analytics and investing. Facebook Global Holdings is listed as a stakeholder in the new company and was registered in Geneva on May 2nd to provide financial and technology services and develop related hardware and software programs for Libra Networks. Earlier this month after it was revealed that Facebook would be working on building a cryptocurrency, the U.S Senate Banking Committee sent Mark Zuckerberg a letter asking how crypto-based payments related to legal, regulatory, privacy and consumer protection concerns. -REUTERS       4. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton developed its own blockchain system for authenticating a luxury good called AURA. LVMH partnered with Microsoft and blockchain software company ConsenSys to build the system and will begin implementing the technology for its Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior brands. AURA will be used to safeguard creative intellectual property and prevent advertising fraud. Consumers will be able to trace the lifecycle of its products, including design, raw materials, manufacturing, and distribution. -RETAIL DIVE       A MESSAGE FROM TWIT When It Comes to Covering Tech, TWiT.tv Hits Every Angle TWiT.tv publishes 15 podcasts a week focused on news, perspective, help, and how-tos. Learn about the latest innovations, privacy, social media, security, plus reviews of smartphones, laptops, tablets, PCs, and wearables. If it has a chip, Leo Laporte and friends have a podcast for it. Find Your Next Favorite Podcast Here 5. Seoul, South Korea will implement blockchain technology in its citizen cards to store user data. -COIN TELEGRAPH 6. Several of the world's largest banks including UBS, Barclays and HSBC are investing $50 million to create a digital cash system to settle financial transactions on the blockchain. -REUTERS 7. 30,000 ETH that was stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia in January was transferred to an unknown wallet a week after the company announced liquidation proceedings. -AMB CRYPTO 8. Andrew Haldane, the chief economist of the Bank of England, recently recognized the potential of bitcoin to recast the current financial system architecture. -BLOCK PUBLISHER 9. CoinGecko introduced a Trust Score to combat fake exchange volume data reporting. -COIN GECKO 10. London-based global fund network Calastone is switching its entire system for fund trade clearing services to its blockchain distributed market infrastructure and onboarding it's current 1,800 customer base. -COIN TELEGRAPH       Written and curated by Darren Webb. He created Currencylists and has worked in marketing roles for a multitude of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects since 2014. Based in NYC, Darren loves to read and continue to learn about cryptocurrency and emerging technology in his spare time. You can find him on Twitter @Dwebbny. Editing team: Kim Lyons (Pittsburgh-based journalist and managing editor at Inside) and David Stegon (senior editor at Inside, whose reporting experience includes cryptocurrency and technology).

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