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My journey with Stellar (XLM) 🚀

awesome-stellar

My journey with Stellar (XLM) 🚀

Note

Stellar.org is a Silicon Valley based nonprofit organization that supports the Stellar network, a free, open-source network that connects diverse financial systems and lets anyone build low-cost financial services—payments, savings, loans, insurance—for their community. The Stellar network enables money to move directly between people, companies and financial institutions as easily as email. This interconnectivity means more access for individuals, lower costs for banks, and more revenue for businesses.

In keeping with IBM's commitment to open source, the solution is run from the IBM Blockchain Platform on Hyperledger Fabric and was built in collaboration with Stellar.org, a non-profit organization and associate member of Hyperledger, and KlickEx Group, a regional financial services company in the Pacific region. Stellar is an open-source blockchain network that is purpose-built for the issuance and exchange of digital assets. Digital assets are issued on the Stellar network as a foreign exchange bridge to allow for near real time settlement. KlickEx Group serves as the founding financial institution for the region, servicing banks, retail clients and consumers using this new network.

Why

• Can handle 1,000 - 10,000 tx/sec
• Low latency : 3-5 secs (Fastest for now)
• Lowest fees : 0.00001 XLM
• Can issue assets and ICO : https://hackernoon.com/why-stellar-could-be-the-next-big-ico-platform-f48fc3cb9a6c
• Build in DEX
• On production since 2014
• Invest in Hyperledger Fabric, Lightning Network
• Universal Payment Solution : https://medium.com/@kuipr/ama-with-the-head-of-ibm-blockchain-jesse-lund-64b8fe13ceba

Partner

• IBM : https://www.ibm.com/blogs/blockchain/2017/10/on-the-horizon-new-blockchain-solution-for-cross-border-payments/
• Stripe : https://stripe.com/blog/stellar
• Deloitte : https://www.stellar.org/blog/deloitte-launch/
• KlickEx : https://www.stellar.org/blog/IBM-KlickEx-Partnership/
• Coins.ph, Flutterwave, ICICI Bank, Tempo Money Transfer : https://www.stellar.org/blog/global-partnerships/
• BluepanNet : https://ambcrypto.com/stellar-enabled-money-transfer-platform-to-be-launched-by-bluepannet/
• SatoshiPay : https://medium.com/@SatoshiPay/satoshipay-partners-with-stellar-org-4288ae0baa72
• keybase.io : keybase-and-stellar-partnership keybase-stellar

Paper

• Core Data Flow : https://www.stellar.org/developers/stellar-core/software/core-data-flow.pdf
• Stellar Consensus Protocal : https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf
• Adventures in Galactic Consensus : https://www.stellar.org/stories/adventures-in-galactic-consensus-chapter-1/
• Quorum slices and the quorum function : https://etale-cohomology.github.io/stellar-tutorials/blog1.html
• SCP : https://www.stellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/scp-talk.pdf
• Updated SCP : https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mazieres-dinrg-scp/
• IETF 102 : https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/102/materials/slides-102-dinrg-stellar-consensus-protocol-update-david-mazieres-00

Video

• David Mazières: "The Stellar Consensus Protocol" | Talks at Google
• dotScale 2017 - David Mazières - Internet-level consensus is practical
• How the Stellar Consensus Protocol (Federated Byzantine Agreement) Works
• What Makes Stellar An Ideal ICO Platform?
• David Mazieres | Security Workshop - April 9, 2018

Projects

Mobius (MOBI) $35M

Connecting the World to the Blockchain Ecosystem

• site : https://mobius.network/
• blog : https://medium.com/mobius-network
• wp : https://docsend.com/view/ru9kz86
• why : https://www.coindesk.com/why-a-39-million-ico-chose-stellar-over-ethereum/
• trade : https://stellarterm.com/#exchange/MOBI-mobius.network/XLM-native
• note : Jed McCaleb is an advisor

Smartland (SLT) $1,753,698

Create digital Assets with blockchain

• site : https://smartlands.io/
• wp : https://smartlands.io/pdf/Whitepaper.pdf
• why : https://smartlands.io/wp/2018/02/02/smartlands1-launches-platform-based-on-stellar-network/
• trade : https://stellarterm.com/#exchange/SLT-smartlands.io/XLM-native
• note : Hosted on the Stellar network on November 2nd, 2017.

Irene Energy (TLU)

Stellar-powered Renewable Electricity Supplier

• site : https://www.irene.energy/
• blog : https://medium.com/irene-energy
• wp : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uBHE-EMwmW69X4EQBe0bvYBCIRfPyuVi/view
• why : https://medium.com/irene-energy/the-6-reasons-why-we-moved-from-ethereum-to-stellar-f641b76115f4
• trade : https://stellarterm.com/#exchange/TELLUS-irene.energy/XLM-native
• note : Not release yet?

Kik, Kin Foundation

Funding by Tencent, https://globalcoinreport.com/will-kins-market-cap-return-to-1-billion-in-2018/

• site : https://kinecosystem.org/
• github : https://github.com/kinfoundation
• blog : https://medium.com/kinfoundation
• wp : https://kinecosystem.org/static/files/Kin_Whitepaper_V1_English.pdf
• why : https://www.lumenauts.com/blog/kik-founder-ted-livingston-on-why-kin-chose-stellar
• rewards : https://kinecosystem.org/static/files/Kin_Rewards_Engine_RFC.pdf
• test : src https://medium.com/kin-contributors/stellar-load-testing-results-for-the-kin-ecosystem-64c4d8676e69
• note : 15 million Kik users, Underdevelopment, https://github.com/kinfoundation/stellar-load-testing

LALA World (LALA)

Gearing Towards a Decentralised Financial Ecosystem

• site : https://lalaworld.io/
• blog : https://blog.lalaworld.io/
• wp : https://lalaworld.io/whitepaper.pdf
• why : https://blog.lalaworld.io/lala-stellars-protocol-new-strategic/
• note : ERC20 for token, Stellar for payment ;p

SIX

Reinventing the digital economy

• site: https://six.network/
• github : https://github.com/thesixnetwork
• wp : https://six.network/documents/SIX-whitepaper-en.pdf

Heir.io

• test : https://medium.com/@heir/results-from-heirs-recent-stellar-org-network-performance-test-next-steps-e2a2c35032a5

BlockEQ

• why : https://medium.com/@blockeq/why-we-chose-stellar-e5b9966c63b7

Veridium

Veridium is collaborating with IBM to help transform the carbon credit market using blockchain technology

• site : https://veridium.io/
• wp : https://veridium.io/assets/uploads/Veridium-White-Paper.pdf

Poseidon

Own Your Carbon Footprint

• site : https://poseidon.eco/
• wp : https://poseidon.eco/assets/documents/Poseidon-White-Paper.pdf

Develop

• The Stellar Laboratory : https://www.stellar.org/laboratory
• GraphQL : https://galactictalk.org/d/885-graphql-interface-for-core-and-horizon-databases/10
• What to build : https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/things-to-build.html
• Custom assets : https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/custom-assets.html
• Smart Contracts : https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/stellar-smart-contracts.html
• Knowledge base : https://www.lumenauts.com/

Library

• An easy-to-use Go Library for the Stellar payment network : https://github.com/0xfe/microstellar
• A commandline client for the Stellar blockchain : https://github.com/0xfe/lumen
• An open-source e-book on Stellar : https://github.com/0xfe/hacking-stellar

Node

• Core : https://github.com/satoshipay/docker-stellar-core
• Horizon : https://github.com/satoshipay/docker-stellar-horizon
• Docker-compose configuration for Stellar Federation : https://github.com/bloqhouse/stellar-federation-docker
• Docker : https://github.com/StellarKit

How to work with other blockchain

• IPFS : http://abcxyz.de/2018/02/08/using-ipfs-as-memo-in-stellar-transaction/
• IPFS : https://jes.al/2018/04/building-an-app-with-stellar-and-ipfs/
• ETH, BTC : https://github.com/stellar/go/tree/master/services/bifrost#demo
• Hyperledger Fabric : https://medium.com/wearetheledger/what-weve-built-to-win-the-worlds-biggest-blockchain-hackathon-of-2018-ea01decfd60c

Tools

• ICO : https://stellar.army
• Explorer : https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/
• Dashboard : https://dashboard.stellar.org/
• Node : https://stellarbeat.io/

Tutorials

• ICO : https://medium.com/@katopz/ico-with-stellar-1ced0c729928
• Pre-authorized Transaction : https://medium.com/@katopz/stellar-pre-signed-transaction-d93e91191c15
• Distributed Trustless Workers with Stellar

How to get lumen

• 1% Inflation via free pool : https://lumenaut.net/
• Stellar Build Challenge (every 3 month) : https://www.stellar.org/lumens/build/

Trade

• StellarTerm : https://stellarterm.com
• StellarTerm (test) : https://stellarterm.com/#testnet
• StellarTerm (hidden) : https://stellarterm.com/#account/settings
• Buy XLM directly (ref) : https://cex.io/r/0/up107588755/0/
• Buy XLM with ETH/BTC (ref) : https://www.binance.com/?ref=13135950

Economics

• What Stellar Lumens Teaches Us About Token Economics

Roadmap

2018 : https://www.stellar.org/blog/2018-Stellar-Roadmap/

• Lightning Network : https://www.stellar.org/blog/lightning-on-stellar-roadmap/
• FairX : https://fairx.io https://github.com/fairxio

Why not others?

• Ethereum : 15 tx/s, Too slow, higher fee, not stable
• NEO (China)
  • http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/major-neo-redflags/
  • http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/how-centralized-is-neo/
• OMG : Not release yet Q4? : http://storeofvalueblog.com/posts/stellar-lumens-what-is-it-and-should-you-invest/
• EOS, NEM (Japan) : https://hackernoon.com/who-is-the-next-microsoft-in-blockchain-d81771539ccc
• ADA : 257 tx/s, Too slow
• ICON (South Korea): 9,000 tx/s, Too young (mainnet Q1/2018)

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