The Stellar Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tyler van der Hoeven
Stellar is an open financial network built for speed and efficiency. With over 4 million accounts and a 5-second ledger close time, Stellar is the right choice for your financial service or application. Join us each week as we discuss the news, applications, and developers building the future of finance on Stellar.
Did you know the SDF has an entire product team? Aside from building and maintaining our web presence they're also involved in building key ecosystem products like our latest and greatest dollar savings product Vibrant! Press play to hear from Sr. Director of Product, Kyle McCollom on what it's like drinking our own cool-aid using Stellar to build real, viable, innovative fintech applications.
VibrantKyle* Twitter * Keybase
It's been awhile since we've had a moment to breathe for a nice Stellar News Recap episode. There's been so many great launches, updates and events over the past few months. Our two biggest highlights from the past couple weeks though would have to be the Vibrant beta launch and the start of the Stellar Community Fund round 5. Let's talk about it!
Vibrant Beta LaunchStellar Community FundKolten* Twitter * Keybase * Email
Tyler* Twitter * Keybase * Email
Misc* Stellar Community Blog * Litemint Stellar Battle
Building any ecosystem from scratch is hard but a financial ecosystem is doubly difficult. There are many factors at play and each component must grow together in tandem, carefully giving and taking from other participants to support the growth of all. It's a delicate task yet it's one our very own Lisa Nestor is keen and capable to tackle. Tune in this week to catch her history and roll in fostering the complex ecosystem developing around Stellar.
Lisa Nestor* Twitter * Keybase
Join Kolten, Tyler and special guest Justin Rice to discuss all things Stellar Ecosystem! If you're able we'd highly recommend watching this on YouTube. You don't want to miss a very special LEGO segment with Justin.
Watch on YouTubeStellar Community Fund* https://galactictalk.org/d/2380-stellar-community-fund-round-5
Justin Rice* Twitter * Keybase
Protocol 13 Explained* https://www.stellar.org/blog/protocol-13-improvements * https://www.stellar.org/developers-blog/how-we-simplified-fees-on-the-stellar-network
Building a business on blockchain is hard. Aside from the normal challenges of scaling and finding product market fit there are the additional challenges of a highly volatile market and constantly evolving technical landscapes. Konstantin Richter of Blockdaemon is no stranger to these challenges and is forging ahead creating profitable business for other blockchain based businesses. Listen in to hear his insights, struggles and optimism around building for profit in blockchain.
- https://blockdaemon.com
- https://twitter.com/konstantin11
What if I told you it were possible for anyone anywhere to get unrestricted access to stocks, bonds, or ETFs for zero fees! Sound too good to be true? It's not, it's DSTOQ. As Stellar Development Foundation's first enterprise investment we couldn't be more excited with the vision and product behind DSTOQ. Listen in to hear DSTOQ's CEO Craig Mc Gregor walk us through the why and what of this incredible project.
- https://www.dstoq.com
- https://twitter.com/dstoq
- https://twitter.com/CraigDSTOQ
The Stellar Development Foundation loves open source, and here at the podcast we have a special affinity for open source funding, which allows people to get paid for creating the world's most essential and accessible tooling. You can understand our excitement then when we ran across Kevin Owocki and his Gitcoin project. Kevin has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about β and building solutions for β the problems raised by open source funding as well as remote community development. Β Listen to learn how Gitcoin helps people get paid to work on free software.Β
Gitcoin* https://gitcoin.co/landing * https://gitcoin.co/issue/stellar/hackathon-get-started * https://twitter.com/gitcoin * https://twitter.com/owocki
Stellar Community Fund* https://stellarcommunity.fund * https://galactictalk.org/d/2294-stellar-community-fund-season-2-is-open/56
Protocol 13* https://github.com/stellar/stellar-protocol/blob/master/core/cap-0015.md * https://github.com/stellar/js-stellar-sdk/issues/529
Join Kolten and Tyler to discuss the latest news and updates in the Stellar ecosystem LIVE! If you're able we'd highly recommend watching this on YouTube. You'll appreciate seeing our faces, especially mine. π
Watch on YouTubeStellar Community fund* https://medium.com/stellar-community/stellar-community-fund-round-4-nominations-have-closed-here-are-our-finalists-d9103aaf1682 * https://stellarcommunity.fund/
Gitcoin Hackathon* https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/new-york-blockchain-week/?tab=hackathon:20
Consensus* https://www.stellar.org/events
New Docs/API* https://developers.stellar.org/docs/ * https://developers.stellar.org/docs/building-apps/ * https://developers.stellar.org/api
Protocol 13* https://www.stellar.org/developers-blog/guide-to-protocol-13-prep * https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core/releases/tag/v13.0.0
Ever wonder what it takes to build and run a state of the art hardware wallet company? What are the tough choices and compromises? Who keeps everything running and improving? Wonder no longer: today we're talking with Fabrice and Benjamin of Ledger covering these questions and more as we discuss the mission-critical roles they both play within security company Ledger.
Ledger.com
- CAP-0023
- Riveting CAP-0023 Discussion
- Jon Jove on GitHub
- Jon Jove on Keybase
Vote in the Stellar Community Fund
- Stellar Core on GitHub
- The Stellar Consensus Protocol
- Jon Jove on GitHub
- Jon Jove on Keybase
Watch on YouTube The Stellar Community Fund * NEW* Stellar Events Page * 1st Stellar Engineering Talk * 1st Round Table Discussion
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Welcome and intro3:00
Stellar Community Fund
Discussion round is open!5:10
Live events, engineering talks, round table discussions and hackathons
Stellar.org/events
Twitter.com/StellarOrg10:00
Stellar assets and their existential nature
Kolten's Assets and Trustlines slideshow presentation
Watch on YouTube29:30
Tyler's engineering talk on "Practical path payments"30:10
Questions!
Q: Why would anyone need an asset on Stellar?35:45
Q: What's a good way to issue Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Stellar?40:30
Q: Is there any way to make a Bitcoin anchor a bit decentralized?45:20
Q: Do you guys see Stellar being the defacto backend for other blockchains? Or is this space in full isolation mode at the moment?48:15
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Denelle on the WebTwitter: https://twitter.com/DenelleDixon
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denelle-dixon-967a236
Stellar Events* www.stellar.org/events
Stellar Community Fund* www.stellar.org/community/community-fund * galactictalk.org β 2294-stellar-community-fund-season-2-is-open * keybase.io/team/stellar.communityfund * stellarcommunity.fund
SEP24 & Path Payments* Stellar Ecosystem Proposal 0024 * SEP24 client demo * Kolten's path payment article * Solar Wallet
https://twitter.com/samconnerone
https://keybase.io/samconner
https://keybase.io/team/stellar_global
start - 3:50
Welcome and intro3:50 - 5:20
Regulator conversations
Regulators are warming up5:20 - 7:10
Will there be a Meridian conference this year? Yes!
Face to face meetings are meaningful7:10 - 9:10
Thoughts around unofficial communities
Localized communities are very important
Stellar community is in a cool growth stage9:10 - 12:10
Stellar Community Fund season 2
Value of the SCF12:10 - 14:20
Any plans to recruit more developers?
Workshops, docs, tutorials, hackathons
More about hackathons14:20 - 18:20
https://github.com/tyvdh/hack-stellar
Building client services on Stellar
https://github.com/tyvdh/stellar-demo-wallet
Fully featured demo Stellar wallet18:20 - 19:50
Hackathons as a source for feedback on docs19:50 - 22
Don't know much about DSTOQ
We don't have inside information, we know what you know
We're not gatekeepers to the network22 -28:30
Current state of scalability
Horizon updates
Horizon explained28:30 - 31
What's this "thing" for?
Highlights the difference between what the SDF does for Stellar and what companies build with Stellar31 - 44:20 βοΈ
Best way to handle wallets?
Key storage and management
Albedo β https://albedo.link
Only expose features necessary for your service
Put yourself in your user's shoes44:20 - 52:40 βοΈ
What business value does Stellar truly provide?
That's up to the businesses building on Stellar
Stellar is a network not a product
The value is the network
Stellar is versatile
Stellar as a payments engine
Our stakeholders are the builders52:40 - end
Closing, links and wrap up
https://keybase.io/team/stellar.public
https://podcast.stellar.org
https://medium.com/stellar-community
https://galactictalk.org
https://bidcoins.io
https://twitter.com/bidcoins
https://github.com/ipfs
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ipfs?src=hashtag_click
Live AMA ShowNext Thursday, Feb 27th @ 3pm ETr/Stellar β stellar_community_podcast_live_ama_thursday_feb_27
Stellar Dev Digest: Issue #29
Stellar Dev Digest: Issue #30
Mr. Emmer Stellar Shoutouthttps://twitter.com/samconnerone/status/1222930295051227146
Horizon 1.0.0 beta releasegithub.com: horizon-v1.0.0-beta
Help get the ecosystem ready
New Stellar.org is livehttps://www.stellar.org
New feature highlights
RealtyBitshttps://www.realtybits.com
Asset authorization flags
Build Your Own Stellar Wallet β Workshop in San Francisco
https://blueorion.cc/timedtransactions
https://twitter.com/blueorioncc
https://keybase.io/team/blueorion
Stellar Dev Digest: Issue #27
Stellar Dev Digest: Issue #28
Stellar Community Fundstellarcommunity.fund
keybase.io: stellar.communityfund
galactictalk.org/t/SCF
StableCoin's new BTC and ETH anchorswww.stablecoincorp.com
Multiplexed accountsDev mailing list
Dev mailing list multiplexed topic
sep-0023
cap-0027
Testnet resetswww.stellar.org: how-stellar-org-recovers-from-a-testnet-reset
www.stellar.org: test-net.html
github.com: testnet-reset.md
Horizon 1.0.0 releasewww.stellar.org: our-new-horizon-ingestion-engine
github.com: horizon-v1.0.0-alpha
www.reddit.com: upcoming_horizon_release
Build Your Own Stellar Wallet β Workshop in San Francisco
Paul Selden, an avid Stellar Community member, walks us through the dark paths of layered security via his delightfully usable service StellarGuard. Add multiple layers of military-grade security to your Stellar account for free and enjoy the sweet bliss of usable safety.
In episode one of the Stellar Community Podcast we kick off 2020 with Kolten and Tyler. We'll get to know them a little better, hear an outline for the show and dive into the Stellar Community Fund as well as briefly hear about what the Stellar Development Foundation accomplished in 2019 and what they have planned for 2020.