Stellar Global Radio with Sam: Exploring the Stellar Blockchain and Beyond

Sam and Fred Kyung-Jin Rezeau, CEO of the NFT Marketplace Litemint, sit for an open Twitter Space discussion with world-renowned and Topps Licensed Artist Blake Jamieson. We touch on his roots, how he got started as a professional artist and get insight into the mindset it takes to make it in this business as a professional artist.

About Blake:

During a trip to Las Vegas in 2017, while dropping off a portrait to Rick Harrison (Pawn Stars), Blake met former NFL player and current NFL manager Jarred Fayson. Jarred encouraged Blake to paint for professional athletes, introducing Blake to a few of his clients (CJ Anderson, Jahleel Addae, Corey Liuget). Blake has since leveraged those relationships to become the premier portrait artist for NFL athletes, and is quickly making a name for himself in other professional sports.

In 2020 Blake started working with Topps, redesigning 20 iconic baseball cards alongside 19 other artists for Project 2020. Since then he has launched a solo set, Topps 1951 by Blake Jamieson, and is currently working on Project70.

Blake's art is in the collections of Howie Mandel, Gary Vaynerchuk, Rick Harrison, and over 250 professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLS, MLB, NHL, and PLL. His art has also been purchased for international private collections, including in Spain, Canada, Dubai, Australia, and Switzerland.

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Sam sits down with Litemint's very first artist to mint an NFT on their marketplace, Arina Fonina. She joins in from the Volkhov River in the city of Veliky Novgorod to give us some background on herself, the inspiration behind her work and why she choose Litemint as the first home for her creations. 

LITEMINT™ is a tech company that breaks barriers and creates innovative products to connect creators, collectors, crypto enthusiasts and gamers to unique experiences. Minting an NFT on Stellar costs about 3 XLM (0.33 USD) and transferring the NFT on Stellar costs 0.00001 XLM (0.0000011 USD). Litemint doesn't charge a commission for selling on their platform. 

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Sam is LIVE with Mobie Network CEO Brandon Burgason who is using Stellar to redefine the world of payments and rewards.  Mobie plans to redefine the way that users spend, send, shop, earn and give. Incentivizing users with cash back at retailers and other rewards for participating in the ecosystem.   

Brandon Burgason is a for-purpose serial entrepreneur focused on creating technology and businesses that help people and solves problems. He founded MobieLabs, a venture studio that builds mainstream products utilizing blockchain technology that is focused on mass adoption through easy-to-use applications.  Their flagship product Mobie App, is a global payments and rewards platform that allows for cryptocurrencies or cash to be used for everyday transactions, powering instant payments globally for individuals and businesses.  

His mission is to make money and crypto simple and accessible for all people. Brandon’s lifelong passion has been building sustainable, ethical, and transparent organizations that fuel social good.  He lives by the mantra, “do good things with good people”  

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CEO Mary Kucek and COO Lissette Logan visit the studio to share the announcement of their NFT for Impact project. This is not your run-of-the-mill NFT Collection. No, this is far greater with a larger impact. The Hidden Faces of Domestic Violence collection is symbolic of those who must hide in plain sight for their safety.  

What you get  90% Tax Deduction Receipt Beautiful digital Sir Cheesely art and thank you membership letter What we are fighting for:  

Nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.  

1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc.  

72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner and 94% of the victims of these murder-suicides are female.  

Unintended pregnancy is 3.3x higher for women who experience both sexual and physical abuse. Unfortunately, a growing trend is trying to impregnate those trying to free themselves from their abuser. This way the abuser remains in control.  

Over 45% of female rape victims were raped by an intimate partner.  

90% of the funds for the NFT sale goes directly to the OvaryIt Foundation, the remaining 10% goes to the amazing Sir Cheesely (artist) and Blue Marble Platform. All proceeds that the Foundation receives goes directly to helping survivors get period products, pregnancy tests, and health services.  

OvaryIt is a telehealth platform that was created for women by women. We believe that all women should have access to affordable and high-quality contraceptive options. Through the use of telehealth, we can now bring those options directly to the comfort of our patient's homes. Because each woman is unique and has a distinctive lifestyle and different goals, there can be no one-size-fits-all solution to birth control. Our proprietary technology works not only to ensure patient safety, but to assist physicians in finding patient's their contraceptive match, be it hormonal or non-hormonal.  This ensures better patient compliance and contraceptive efficacy.    

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Let's face it! Despite all the hype and billions pouring in and out of the blockchain industry, we have yet to see a breakthrough in real-world adoption. Today we bring on Brian Barnier of Value Bridge Advisors and Think.Design.Cyber to discuss the industry and learn from his insights key areas that every blockchain organization should focus on to be successful:  

1: Identifying your value proposition  

2: Understanding the "Used Car Lot Problem 

3: Product Management  

4:Understaning your team and more...  

About Brian Barnier 

Member of Investopedia's Financial Review Board Head of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors and Guest Professor at the Colin Powell School at City University of NY Previously taught finance and operations at the University of Detroit Mercy and economics at Western Michigan University. Author of The Operational Risk Handbook and contributor to Risk & Performance: A Guide for Government Decision-Makers and Risk Management in Finance Experience Brian Barnier, Director/Head of Analytics, ValueBridge Advisors (U.S.)/Burnt Oak Capital (UK), focuses on growing companies and investment funds. His analytical edge in risk management comes from systems analysis and advanced data visualization. His impact flows from his expertise in strategy, data analysis, and technology.  He is co-founder and editor of economic and market site Fed Dashboard & Fundamentals, where he applies decision science analysis to bust market and economic myths.  He serves on advisory boards for Blue Sky Capital, Disaster Technologies, Origo Financial, Orion Worldwide, and Boardwise. Guest professor at Colin Powell School @ City University of NY teaching a graduate seminar in data analytics for decision-making.  Appreciating businesses through institutional investor eyes, he served as co-chair of the risk committee of the USD26T assets London-based ICGN institutional investor organization, where he catalyzed the “investment chain of implementation” analysis. He has been interviewed and writes widely, including from the floor of the NYSE, NASDAQ MarketSite, The Street, NY1, WSJ, CNBC, and Bloomberg Brief.  Previously, he led innovation initiatives for IBM, Lucent (now Nokia), and Ameritech (now AT&T)—across which he led teams to 9 patents and launched a pioneering fintech product. He taught finance and operations at the University of Detroit Mercy and economics at Western Michigan University. He has guest lectured in Russia and Mexico.

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Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) Community Manager John aka @spintax2 joins the show! What initiatives is the SDF involved with to engage the community, how can we protect ourselves from scams, and we explore the current round of the Stellar Community Fund, an open-application grant program that allows developers, startups, and full-fledged companies that build on Stellar to receive support and funding based on input from the Stellar community.

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As Davos 2022 kicks off Sam sits down with author, mentor and guru; writer and storyteller; champion of a just society and an economy that serves us all; Satya Das. Working with colleagues at the Center of Excellence on Human-centered Digital Economy, he developed a new way to approach our planetary crises. They call it their 6-D vision: Disarmament, Development, and Dignity, as a framework leading to Decarbonization, Decentralization, and Digitalization. The Digital Economist looks at the potential of this approach in meeting the climate challenge, and argue that a 6-D lens enables a more robust and global understanding of humankind’s mutual challenge in meeting the climate crisis.  

The Digital Economist’s 6-D lens offers a means to align the similar, and often overlapping, goals of climate activists, The Paris Agreement, The Glasgow Climate Pact, and the business and investment communities as well as the climate pathways under the 2019 Marrakesh Partnership, which were updated in 2021 to further strengthen just transition, gender-responsiveness, resilience and circular economy. This alignment would ideally lead to coordinated implementation of inclusive climate resilience, particularly among the most vulnerable. It also offers the means to bolster the implementation of commitments under the overlapping vectors of these covenants, joining efforts to put the pledges into action.  

Their key recommendations: Adopt the 6-D approach to enhance the implementation of the Glasgow Climate Pact Use the mechanisms presented by The Digital Economist — the global carbon levy, the 6-D lens and fiscal measures to swerve from militarism to development — to meet and exceed the adaptation and mitigation funding evoked in the Paris Agreement and reinforced in the Glasgow Climate Pact

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Stellar Global takes you to Paris and behind the scenes of the Hackathon hosted by The Stellar Development Foundation and Ledger, the smartest way to secure, buy, exchange and grow your crypto assets.

The Paris Hackathon challenge was to build a powerful and secure blockchain-powered app during the 20-hour Stellar x Ledger Community Hackathon! The Stellar Development Foundation and Ledger SAS collaborated to provide developers with an in-person opportunity to build solutions on both technologies. Devs poured in, in-person and online, to combine the power of the accessible Stellar network with the secure Ledger hardware wallet.

PRIZES

First place: €1000 worth of XLM (awarded to SmartRent)

Second place: €600 worth of XLM (awarded to StarZap)

Third place: €400 worth of XLM (awarded Carbon Emission Killer)

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Sam meets with Diego Yanez (CEO of AlfredPay) and Daniel Laplana (COO of Shokworks) to explore how they connected to set up a fintech business that would facilitate seamless and affordable remittances back-and-forth between the US, DR, and Haiti, all powered by the Stellar network.  Additionally, we are introduced to Danny Rodriguez, CEO of Blue Missions, and learn how together with a planned commitment of shared profit from AlfredPay, they plan to continue their mission of improving public health in the Dominican Republic by providing families with clean water and sanitary environments.  

What is Alfred Pay?  

Alfred Pay first came about when Diego Yanez met with his eventual co-founder, Marino Marrero, in the Dominican Republic. Despite the pandemic, the DR still boasted a strong remittance market – the third-largest in LATAM. Haiti’s economy had not fared so well, and many Haitians immigrated to the DR, causing them to send money back to their home country in high volumes. Wanting to leverage the DR’s robust remittance infrastructure ($10.4 billion in 2021), Diego and Marino decided to set up a fintech business that would facilitate seamless and affordable remittances back-and-forth between the US, DR, and Haiti, all powered by the Stellar network.  Alfred Pay plans to operate as both an anchor and as a consumer product on Stellar. As an anchor on the Stellar network, Alfred will set up payment corridors between the US, DR, and Haiti. 

For the US specifically, Alfred has partnered with Wyre to build a fiat-to-crypto onramp that permits users to access USDC on Stellar. Alfred will then build a crypto-to-fiat off-ramp into the Dominican Republic and Haiti so that users will be able to exchange USDC for local fiat currencies.  These on/off ramps will then plug into Alfred Pay’s consumer product: a wallet app that will let users send and receive remittances quickly and easily from their phones. With the wallet app, senders may choose to send money either to another Alfred wallet or directly to the recipient’s bank account; users will also be able to locate their nearest ATM to withdraw funds from their Alfred wallet.

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Sam sits with Lila Harnett Executive Director of Art Table, Jessica Porter, a nonprofit supporting women professionals in the visual arts. The New York-based organization now has nine chapters across the US. ArtTable is the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. Through their membership network and community initiatives, they expand professional opportunities for women from diverse backgrounds and at all stages of their careers, supporting and fostering a stronger future for all women in the arts.

Iverson, the artist and co-founder of Alice Riot, created the original Mina collage and painting at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a representation of the monotonous, cyclical nature of quarantine – and of course, Kate’s love for her chihuahua – the piece is both sentimental and melancholy with a dash of humor and whimsy.

Kate and Alice Riot have granted original rights for the Mina artwork to ArtTable for this NFT drop. ArtTable receives 100% of the initial sale price of $50 per NFT and will additionally earn a permanent 50% royalty on all NFT secondary market/resales.

Utility: This is the first-ever NFT drop for ArtTable, the world’s foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. Each time the Mina NFT is sold or resold it raises sustaining funds for ArtTable’s nonprofit programs, initiatives and more that benefit its members worldwide.

Licensing details: Original rights for the Mina artwork rest with ArtTable. The buyer/owner of a Mina NFT has rights to print and reproduce the NFT for personal use - e.g., framed print, poster, card, etc. Licensing or sale of the NFT for commercial use without strict authorization from ArtTable is prohibited. If ArtTable agrees to any commercial licensing use or sale of e NFT, the nonprofit will continue to receive a 50% royalty on any use into perpetuity.

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Sam is LIVE with Torsten Stüber, CTO of Pendulum to discuss how Pendulum's interoperable blockchain brings together high-quality fiat tokens in a single, powerful DeFi network. Offering composable fiat solutions with 1000x performance.

Throughout the centuries, the tools of money have evolved to be evermore inclusive and accessible in an increasingly globalized and borderless world — from trading metal coins to investing in stocks or sending online bank transactions. However, the centralized traditional financial systems, which historically provided these tools, tend to be unable to deliver flexible and composable services. Global fiat transfers and interactions in traditional finance suffer from high fees, slow speeds and limited optionality. In contrast, the explosive growth in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) has brought about tools for building innovative financial products for future generations. But to date, bridging compliant fiat fintech services over to DeFi ecosystems has been a struggle. Enter Pendulum.

Built on Parity’s Substrate framework, Pendulum establishes the missing link between fiat and DeFi with a sophisticated smart contract network. Pendulum chain aims to become the one-stop hub for the internet of fiat. Innovations that Pendulum will bring include:

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Founders Obin and Amariah Olson visit to discuss their new platform Yield Crowd, a Stellar-based platform allowing the tokenization of US real estate at low minimum fees, capable of being globally traded with anyone at any time on the Stellar blockchain network.  

Yield Crowd has just finished it's tokenization of a U.S. $50M portfolio of real estate as YIELD tokens on the Stellar blockchain. Commenting on Yield Crowd's ongoing momentum, Chief Executive Officer Amariah Olson stated:

 "Being huge believers in technology and witnessing first-hand the transactional friction and liquidity issues in the incumbent real estate private equity sector, we are very excited to be bringing Blockchain technology to the real estate space and to offer the world's first portfolio of institutional assets tokenized on the blockchain. We are doubling down to become the leading tech pioneers in the blockchain real estate space with our Yield Crowd platform, where buyers and sellers can come together to transact real estate backed tokens on-chain and earn dividends daily."  

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Originally aired 8/13/21

Sam Conner hosts alongside Litemint's CEO, Frederic Kyung-Jin Rezeau. Get ready for an epic Litemint Legends Final as Father faces off against son: Marlo (Netherlands) vs 159P (Netherlands) Fire! All NFT and collectible prizes issued live on Stellar!

At the end of each season, Litemint.io runs a top-tier competition to determine the winners of exclusive seasonal cards and NFT Crypto rewards. Any player who has achieved Legend rank during the season is free to enter.  LITEMINT.IO is a unique, fast paced, instant PvP card battle game with collectibles and non-fungible tokens tradable on the Stellar blockchain. The game will be available to play on the Litemint platform, web and mobile stores with tons of items, goodies and legendary artifacts to earn.

Explore Stellar Global: www.Stellar-global.org  Follow Sam Conner on Twitter @samconnerone      Follow Sam Conner on YouTube YouTube.com/c/samconner  Follow Sam Conner on Twitch Twitch.tv/samconnerxlm    Learn more about Stellar and the Stellar Development Foundation: www.Stellar.Org and on Twitter at @StellarOrg    https://litemint.io (game) https://litemint.com (NFT marketplace) https://stellarport.io (DEX portal)

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Leading business payments in emerging markets ClickPesa, lead by co-founders Richard Lema and Rick Groothuizen, offers a platform that unifies payments services in one platform for businesses in emerging markets. It helps local businesses perform better by increasing productivity and profitability. Internationally, ClickPesa simplifies the way companies can do business in emerging markets. The platform connects with existing mobile wallets and bank accounts to facilitate payments.  What is GetPaid?  

✅ A place to connect creators, artists, traders and NFT-communities in Africa with worldwide opportunities  

✅ A place to socialize and gain knowledge  

✅ A place to market, promote and get paid from and to the world. Get paid via/in XLM, USDC, KES, RWF and TZS.

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John Wolpert serves as ConsenSys Group Executive for Enterprise Mainnet, delivering products, services and leadership to enterprises that use the public Ethereum Mainnet to conduct business. John is co-founder and steering committee chair of the Baseline Protocol, an initiative of the open standards body, OASIS.  John is a seasoned enterprise executive and serial entrepreneur with 30 years in business — a cofounder of IBM’s global blockchain organization, the open source Hyperledger Fabric project, the original taxi ride hailing service, Flywheel, and the international life science research consortium, IXC. He has created new lines of business for numerous Fortune 100 companies and government organizations. His writing on open source and open innovation have appeared in Harvard Business Review and publications by Harvard Business School Press.  Prior to joining ConsenSys, John was the global product executive for IBM Blockchain, with previous leadership roles serving Watson, IBM Cloud, Extreme Blue, alphaWorks and the Internet Division.  

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LIVE with Carmelle Cadet as we discuss her work on Central Bank Digital Curencies with the Central Bank of the Bahamas and most recently Ghana; here 10yr history with IBM as well as her thoughts on Stellar plus  much more!  Carmelle Cadette In her last role after a 10 year career at IBM, Carmelle led the Global Business Development efforts in IBM Blockchain for Payments.  She is now the Founder and CEO of EMTECH, a fintech company helping Central Banks in Emerging Markets modernize their Financial Market Infrastructure with Blockchain, AI and Data Analytics.  Her and the team are on a clear mission to build inclusive, safe and resilient financial infrastructures with digital currencies to unleash new markets and opportunities for everyone  Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments. Stellar makes it possible to create, send and trade digital representations of all forms of money—dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network.  

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Sam Conner hosts alongside Litemint's CEO, Frederic Kyung-Jin Rezeau. Get ready for an epic Litemint Legends Final with Sieger (Netherlands) vs Chameleon (USA) Fire! All NFT and collectible prizes issued live on Stellar!

Litemit showcases how NFTs can work in gaming. Visit Litemint.io for more info

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Sam Conner hosts alongside Litemint's CEO, Frederic Kyung-Jin Rezeau. Get ready for an epic Litemint Legends Final with Black Swan (Russia) vs Singer (Netherlands)! All NFT and collectible prizes issued live on Stellar!

At the end of each season, Litemint.io runs a top-tier competition to determine the winners of exclusive seasonal cards and NFT Crypto rewards. Any player who has achieved Legend rank during the season is free to enter.  LITEMINT.IO is a unique, fast paced, instant PvP card battle game with collectibles and non-fungible tokens tradable on the Stellar blockchain. The game will be available to play on the Litemint platform, web and mobile stores with tons of items, goodies and legendary artifacts to earn.

Explore Stellar Global: www.Stellar-global.org  Follow Sam Conner on Twitter @samconnerone      Follow Sam Conner on YouTube YouTube.com/c/samconner  Follow Sam Conner on Twitch Twitch.tv/samconnerxlm    Learn more about Stellar and the Stellar Development Foundation: www.Stellar.Org and on Twitter at @StellarOrg    https://litemint.io (game) https://litemint.com (NFT marketplace) https://stellarport.io (DEX portal)

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment, he sits down with Justin Ric , VP of Ecosystem, at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) about how much SDF has grown in tandem with the ecosystem, how the ecosystem participates in Protocol Upgrades, and how these upgrades have directly contributed to the innovation on Stellar.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment, he sits down with Tomer Weller, VP of Tech Strategy at the Stellar Development Foundation. They discuss Layer 1 smart contracts coming to Stellar and Project Jump Cannon.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment, Louisa Bai (Business Development and Partnerships Manager, SDF) also got the chance to catch up with Sam on how SDF engages with its partners and strategizing around the big question: beyond payments, what else can businesses do with Stellar-issued assets once they’ve on-ramped onto the Stellar network?

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment, Sam sits with Anke Liu Program Manager at Stellar Development Foundation and discusses at the Stellar Lounge at SXSW.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment, Ben Grossman (Senior Ecosystem Marketing Manager, SDF) chatted with Sam about the importance of evangelizing businesses and projects with the Stellar ecosystem, how marketing grants are being distributed by SDF to directly invest in companies’ user acquisition.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation and as well as leaders from the blockchain industry. 

In this segment he sits down with Tyler van der Hoevan, Ecosystem Engineer where he's fostering and growing the vibrant Stellar ecosystem of crypto enthusiasts, business developers and entrepreneurs. Writing docs, hosting events and a podcast, managing and designing funding.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation and as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment he sits down with Cleve Mesidor. Cleve Mesidor is the founder of the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain. A Washington insider, she served as an Obama Presidential Appointee, a senior staffer in Congress, and the leadership of national political campaigns. Cleve is a Howard University alumna and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She regularly speaks at national conferences and has been featured in prominent publications and broadcast media outlets. Cleve was born in Haiti and raised in New York City. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation and as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment he sits down with Rachel Wolfson, Senior Reporter of Cointelegraph. Rachel Wolfson is a journalist, author, public speaker, podcast host and social media influencer who has over 10 years of experience writing about technology. She has been covering the blockchain and cryptocurrency space since 2017, focusing primarily on enterprise blockchain. 

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation and as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment he sits down with Morgan Berman, Senior Director of Growth at Techstars where he leads Entrepreneurship, Venture Investment, Business Development and Partnership. 

Here we discuss Techstars recent partnership with Moneygram and the Stellar Development Foundation:

TheStellar Development Foundation andMoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI) today announced a new partnership withTechstars, a global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship, and customized programming for entrepreneurs. The program will recruit founders across the world who are focused on driving technological innovation in areas such as blockchain and digital payments to further streamline cross-border payments and support financial inclusion.

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Sam broadcasts LIVE from SXSW at the Stellar Lounge to bring you insights from the leaders of the Stellar Development Foundation and as well as leaders from the blockchain industry.

In this segment he sits down with Chris who's attending the event and happened to swing by the Stellar Lounge to learn more. Its refreshing causual chat offering a glimpse into how the average person views blockchain

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FinClusive's mission is to bring secure, compliance-centered banking to the 2.5 to 3.5 billion people and businesses worldwide who are financially excluded or underserved.  FinClusive is using the open and inclusive Stellar network to deliver on this mission.  Sam Conner and Amit Sharma (CEO of FinClusive) discuss Amit's background and how the United States' response to the September 11th attack ultimately resulted in excluding both good and bad people from the world's financial system.   Amit further explains how these new regulations disproportionally impacted low income and other groups of people and businesses as banks evaluated the cost of compliance and made the commercial choice to "derisk" - i.e., not do business with certain segments of the economy.  Sam highlights Amit's statement that a quarter of the United States is either unbanked or underbanked - the plight of the unbanked or underbanked is not just a global poor phenomenon.  Amit then explains how FinClusive provides compliance as a service to lower the cost of compliance and expand the number of entities able to provide compliant financial services to people and businesses.   The podcast ends on use cases and a future vision for which leaves Sam nearly speechless.    

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Bitbond improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds with the help of Stellar blockchain technology and tokenization. Bitbond, Germany's leading tokenization and digital asset custody technology provider, and Bankhaus von der Heydt (BVDH), one of Europe's oldest banks, have joined forces to issue a Euro (EUR) stablecoin (EURB) on the Stellar network. Available today, the EURB stablecoin is the first stablecoin issued directly by a banking institution on Stellar and one of the first of its kind in the crypto market.  Sam Conner and Radko Albrecht, CEO and founder of Bitbond, discuss Bitbond's early accomplishments, partnerships, regulations in Germany, and an exciting future of financial inclusion.  Radko explains that Bitbond Token (BB1) serves as a showcase for issuing a dematerialized security token in Europe using the Stellar blockchain network.  He also explains why Bitbond chose to use the Stellar protocol as compared to other blockchain protocols.    In addition, this episode includes a teaser of an upcoming announcement by a German bank and its plans to issue a Euro-denominated stable coin utilizing the open and inclusive Stellar blockchain network.    

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Road to SXSW: Meet Litemint CEO Fred Rezeau

On our road to SXSW we sit down with Litemint CEO and developer Fred Rezeau. Prior to Litemint NFTs didn't have a platform to live on the network. Since the creation of Litemint we have seen an organic growth of users that until then hadn't been seen. In this quick chat Fred reflects and previews an brand new feature called "unlockable content" that allows artist the ability to attach additional features or promotions easily and effortlessly to their NFT. NFTs could now grant access to events or deliver the rights to a phsyical product.

Litemint charges no additional fee and is the premier NFT store on Stellar.

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Christian Peters, CTO and Co-Founder of Dstoq swings by to break down two new features that debuted on Stellar with the Protocol 15 Upgrade, Claimable Balances and Sponsored Reserves.

DSTOQ, a Liechtenstein-based FinTech company, helps make investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets, through a borderless digital interface for security tokens built on the Stellar network, a global, decentralized open source blockchain. Through the DSTOQ interface, users have easier access to blue chip shares, such as Tesla or Amazon, as well as bonds, indices and commodities using fiat or cryptocurrencies.

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We're on the Road to SXSW and I've got Kickhouse and Litemint artist Nettie Bella in the studio to discuss how they partnered up to leverage the power of Stellar and NFTs to connect with her clientele base at Kickhouse Studios.

"Birthed during the COVID-19 pandemic, KickHouse has resilience in its DNA and perseverance as a critical differentiator. We encourage our members to grow their strength and resilience through kickboxing.

We know changes don’t come easily so we don’t give up easily. There is fight in this family. The KickHouse family is passionate about constant improvement so if you’re ready to see results, we’re ready for you.

All of the KickHouse workouts are rooted in kickboxing with additional fitness flare in each class type. Kickboxing is accessible to all fitness levels. From beginners to advanced athletes, you’ll see that kickboxing classes torch calories and get you results quickly.
Whatever kickboxing class you take, you’ll leave KickHouse feeling empowered, confident and ready to take on the world!"

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The team behind Task.io bring us their new innovation Blue Marble and show how they utilze Stellar to make an impact by utilizing Stellar Turrets to issue royalites and deliver funds directly to causes and artist on a trackable ledger. 

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I've literally got Sir Cheesely in the "cheese" to share his thoughts on the NFT advantages of #Stellar.  My first time speaking to a cartoon character....lets see how it goes.

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SXSW2022 is rolling along and I've got another highlight from a company by the name of Leaf Global that has been working with community orgs such as Litemint and The JPEGDAO to highlight NFT artist and provide needs to refugees in Africa. 

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#SXSW2022 continues and throughout the week NFT artist have been coming through to share thier jouney on Stellar! Today meet "The Lovely Lions" and learn how she uses the network to share her story! 

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Originating in 2018 in a cramped university apartment, Script3 sought to explore the possibilities of blockchain technology. Our team quickly focused on decentralized finance (before it had the catchy buzzword nickname DeFi). We gravitated toward it but also recognized its shortcomings: it was expensive and slow. Thus, it failed to realize its potential of providing equitable access to financial infrastructure.  “The promise of DeFi is the promise of financial inclusion because the current financial ecosystem fails to serve much of the world.” This quote from our co-founder, Markus Paulson-Luna embodies what we believe at Script3. DeFi is a powerful tool for the masses if utilized correctly and ethically. We're trying to help the world's people, using the best technology available to the world's people.  YieldBlox is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for lending and FX forwards built on Stellar using Stellar Turrets. The protocol has functions for lending, borrowing, margin accounts, FX forwards, and staking. Users carry out all protocol functions using YieldBlox's smart contracts.

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Fimi (pronounced “Fih-me”) is a Jamaican term that means "for me.” This pride in ownership is a thread that runs throughout the platform and is passed on to the burgeoning list of artists that have signed on. The Fimi Market NFT Platform exists to provide artists a space to showcase and sell their work as NFTs.   

Whitepaper for the project: https://fimi.market/pdf/whitepaper.pdf Social Media Account (Main): 

Twitter: @Fimi_Market  

Website: https://fimi.market 

Token Type: Utility  Token Build: Stellar     

Team: Miguel Adwin – CEO – Twitter: @migadwin Telegram: @cowrietrading              

Hannah Hodge – CPO – Twitter: @Hannathema_              

John Savoia – CBO – Twitter: @GiovaSavo Telegram: @GiovaNapoli              

Diana O’Gilvie – Communications Manager              

Rory Layne – Legal Advisor              

Andre Diah – Senior Developer/DevOps              

Mimi Lin – CMO   

Profiles can be found at: https://fimi.market/About 

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Introducing the Jpeg Dao:  The JPEG DAO was born out of a simple concept: People like NFTs. Let’s create a club where members receive free NFTs. The way our club is managed is the interesting, complex part. We are a DAO, or distributed autonomous organization, meaning we make decisions collaboratively and encode major decisions on public blockchains. DAOs are fairly common in the Ethereum ecosystem but they are new to Stellar. Stellar has all the tools needed for successful DAOs besides a “DAO Culture”. JPEG offers an opportunity to grow our DAO culture. We build in public. Members, supporters, and people performing tasks (there are no employees or equity) all work together to make decisions. Any code we produce, roadmaps we develop, or products we release will be built with very few details hidden from the public. Lastly, we will change. Our initial concept is simple. Become a member by buying 10,000 JPEG tokens on the Stellar DEX and receive free NFTs. If you would like to receive our first NFT, you must become a member by October 20th, 2021. Members will receive this first NFT on November 1st, 2021. However, this is only the beginning of our journey. We are working on a range of efforts including unique NFTs per member, a 3D NFT gallery, an innovation fund managed by new members, as well as iterative efforts to decentralize our treasury and utilize InstandDAO. If you want to join our club, I encourage you to buy 10,000 JPEG. If you want to participate in our evolving DAO, visit our Discord Server. Either way, we thank you for participating in our experiment, club, and community.

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About HODL Assets, Inc.  HodlAssets.org (or, simply, HODL Assets) is a revolutionary NFT platform and marketplace that has led the way into the future by being the first to facilitate the creation, buying, and selling of non-fungible tokens on multiple blockchains. In contrast, most other NFT marketplaces support only Ethereum. HODL has also differentiated itself from its competitors by assessing no initial contract, listing, or auction settlement fees, but instead charging its users only a minting fee. The HODL platform is also the first NFT marketplace to offer Gaming and Social Networking components as part of its native ecosystem. With every new feature it adds to the platform, the HODL Assets team endeavors to further dispel the mystery and confusion that often surround these wonderfully innovative technologies by providing a safer, more user-friendly environment where people can come to learn, create, and confidently participate in blockchain-fueled e-commerce and networking. In short, HODL is a place where users are free to explore and enjoy the innovation of today's most sought-after technologies.

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The CMO of The Stellar Development Foundation swings by the studio to bring the community an update and insight into their marketing strategy. Jordan comes from an extensive background that includes working with the famed video game franchise EA Madden Football.

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DSTOQ makes use of tokenization and digital asset issuance on Stellar to provide US-grade securities like Tesla, Google, and Apple stock on their consumer-facing app and B2B API integration to make investing accessible, affordable, and available to anyone with a mobile phone.

Cross-border investing remains costly and largely unavailable to emerging markets. Without the ability to hold best-in-class assets for growing, diversifying, or protecting wealth, many of these populations are left holding onto money whose value diminishes over time, especially in high-inflation countries. These populations simply haven’t had access to the same financial services as those in high-income economies.

DSTOQ identified this problem and offered their own answer: increasing worldwide access to high-quality securities via tokens on Stellar and transacting these tokens on a borderless digital interface. On top of tokenization, DSTOQ focused on building a user app for retail consumers and API-integration functionality for third-party partners.

To provide a global solution that allows for easy investing in world-class assets while cutting out the intermediaries, DSTOQ realized that blockchain technology would play a pivotal role. After exploring which blockchain to build their solution on top of, they settled on Stellar for the following reasons:

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Bidali is a new digital commerce experience that helps you keep more of your money. Businesses that use Bidali can increase sales, save on fees, get paid faster, and eliminate fraud.  Bidali and Gilded Finance worked with Canada Stablecorp Inc to launch its Canadian Dollar stablecoin "QCAD"  Gosling’s is working with Bidali, a Canadian fintech company, with support from the Bermuda Government’s fintech office and Penrose Partners, a Canadian and Bermudian technology consulting firm.  The rum company will accept touchless payment through the Stellar network.  

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Task is a mobile application with a Stellar wallet embedded providing the ability to track team and community activities with a flexible ramp on/off integrations.  Let’s dig into what Task enables organizations and users to do.  

1. Economic communities Connecting people through economic communities is central to what Task does. Payments can be made when an activity is completed, they can be standard user-to-user payments, or they can be sent as an “Award” with a message.  We believe tokens can bring communities together - whether a stablecoin, a traded coin, or a private branded token with non-financial value, these exchanges between users create a place of reward and connectivity. 

 2. Token payments in exchange for verified activity Getting paid when an activity is completed has far-reaching ramifications - it allows funds and grants to “drip-feed” investment into projects, delivering micro-payments as work is done. Task allows optional verification of activity before payment is released to protect funds.  

3. Blockchain ledger tracking of any event All the activity gathered using the Task mobile app uses a one-way hashing algorithm to represent this data in the Stellar transaction memo field. It means that data gathered via Task cannot be tampered with, and it increases the data veracity of the organizations using Task to gather and prove their impact.  Let’s look at a use case . Our customer ACTAsia tracks vet activity across China, providing pain-free operations to animals. We can see:  ACTAsia are using our IMPACT token to track and reward, and here we see the hashed data stored in the Stellar transaction history https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/tx/2adac78b558f1b8bf42406941d8c0d52ad8b7b75c7fe7ef56e7a4aa33ca83ea4 We use the blockchain to not only provide payments but also to build out the data story with critical proof points to see that the organizations and communities creating real impact are the ones who shine the most.  

4. Donor visibility into fund usage We also support the provision of donations to projects - and for donors, we use the Blockchain ledger tracking to provide ongoing proof of how their funds are being used.  They are able to log in to the Desktop version of Task and get a transaction history of how their donation money was utilized.  

5. Crowd voting and awards Awards were mentioned earlier - but it's worth adding that these subjective Stellar payments against the activities tracked means Task can provide decision mechanisms, letting the community vote with their tokens.  

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It's surreal to listen to this interview today as the beautiful country that is depicted is now in the midst of a bloody war. Filmed Sept. 2021, CEO Illia Obraztcov and Non-Executive Chairman Martin Birch sat down with me to discuss how their Smartlands Stellar-based token was on course to revolutionize tokenized investing forever.  

Smartlands is the next-generation Stellar blockchain-based global investment and digital banking ecosystem. The Company's proprietary technological solutions allow asset owners to turn the ownership right to a share of any asset in any asset class into a tradable digital token attributing it almost unlimited liquidity.  The President of Ukraine signed into law a decree that now allows the Ukrainian Central Bank, The National Bank of Ukraine, (NBU) to issue a CBDC or digital hryvnia. The law also enables the NBU to set up regulatory structures for testing payment services and other allied instruments based upon new and emerging technologies. 

It is worth noting that the legislation requires the NBU to form a close collaboration with local start-ups in the digital asset space to ensure that the end product of the e-hryvnia takes into account the needs of the private sector. In a further positive for Smartlands, the NBU announced earlier this year that it had chosen the Stellar blockchain network as the platform on which it will build the hryvnia CBDC. So it is instantly compatible with all aspects of the Smartlands platform immediately after it is launched.

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Stephen is a co-founder and partner at DFS Lab, leading its investments in early-stage digital commerce startups in Africa. He has also spent time advising global clients on the growth of fintech and ecommerce in frontier markets such as those in Africa, China, and Indonesia.   DFS Lab in collaboration with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has launched a call for applicants for a Blockchain Bootcamp, designed to give early to mid-stage startups in Africa an opportunity to build on Stellar, an open-source blockchain network for financial services and products.  The bootcamp is a three-day design sprint allowing participating companies to answer critical business questions with hands-on technical support and guidance from DFS Lab and SDF. Companies will define a problem, storyboard a solution, and develop a rapid prototype of their innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to support the blockchain-oriented ideas of African developers and startups, equip them with practical tools and education, and provide support to create viable solutions that fit local needs.  The most promising solutions will be awarded prizes from 5,000 to 20,000 USDC. There will be opportunities for follow-on funding for additional grants, including potential investment from SDF’s Enterprise Fund and other investors who will be present at the demo day. Interested fintech companies, blockchain native companies, and crypto-curious companies operating in Africa and looking to advance existing services or embed digital asset solutions into their models for the first time are all encouraged to apply

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Live with 3 of the hottest Litemint NFT artists on Stellar! @artbydixon, @NettieBella and @RavageUniverse alongside CEO of Litemint Fred Rezeau swing by to share their experience building on Stellar! Learn why Stellar is the hottest space right now for artists!

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Entrepreneur, Developer and experienced investor Anthony Barker visits the studio to break down:

What is an AMM and Liquidity Pool What is a boundary curve and what does Stellar use What are the risks of trading on the Stellar Liquidity Pools How much money can you make trading Stellar Lps Limitations of Stellar AMM v1 vs Uniswap, Curve etc  Benefits of Stellar vs Ethereum --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samconner/support

Moneygram CEO Alex Holmes and Stellar Development CEO Denelle Dixon premier the demo for the Moneygram integration with the Stellar protocol. MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), the global leader in the evolution of digital P2P payments, today announced a partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source public blockchain that allows money to be tokenized and transferred anywhere in the world. MoneyGram's network, integrated with the Stellar blockchain and facilitated through Circle's USD Coin (USDC), will enable cash funding and payout in local currency for consumers using USDC, as well as near-instant backend settlement capabilities.

For consumers, the partnership will provide the ability to seamlessly convert USDC to cash, or cash to USDC. This increases the utility and liquidity of digital assets while also enabling more consumers to participate in the digital economy. The impact of this partnership is expected to grow as more wallets and companies join the Stellar network.

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I'm live with the CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation as we discuss some of the biggest Stellar events of the year. From their partnership with Tala to their integration with Moneygram.   Join Stellar Global: www.Stellar-Global.org  Follow Sam Conner on Twitter @samconnerone  Follow Sam Conner on YouTube YouTube.com/c/samconner Follow Sam Conner on Twitch Twitch.tv/samconnerxlm  Learn more about Stellar and the Stellar Development Foundation: www.Stellar.Org and on Twitter at @StellarOrg

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A powerful but easy to use Stellar network wallet. xBull Wallet is a powerful but easy to use wallet and it's the last wallet you will ever need to handle your Stellar Assets!  Our project is completely open source and should always be, you can check the code and audit it at https://github.com/Creit-Tech/xBull-W... and learn how to build it yourself at https://xbull.app/installation/. In the crypto space we need to be skeptical so we help you to have your own build if you want to.  Check everything you need to know about our wallet in our official website: https://xbull.app but here is a quick list of the main features this wallet has:  - Basic Wallet features (send, receive, add assets, etc). - Create multiple wallets and accounts, all of them created from Mnemonic phrases (24 words). Your keys, your coins. - Use your favorite hardware wallets: Ledger wallets and Trezor Wallets are supported. - Trade features: Place offers in the SDEX, make quick swaps and open limit orders. - Use the horizon API you want, by default we listed those from Stellar and Public node (which we are supporters) but you are free to use the one you prefer. -  Set the default fee for your transactions - A built in laboratory for advanced users: Create operations chains or sign custom XDRs. - And many more!  This versions is still in BETA (version  1.0.0) so keep in mind this, we are constantly updating the code and pushing new features/fixes every week.  xBull Wallet is a product created by the Creit Tech's team and we are proud of it, if you have any question about it please reach us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/xBullWallet

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Live with NFT artist and creator GnawBears to discuss his creations and future plans as he leverages the Stellar Blockchain to bring a world of enchantment to the metaverse.

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The Stellar NFT store is relaunching with a new look and exciting new feature: #MusicNFTs!!. I'm live with  Recording and Visual artist Shark Anthony alongside Litemint CEO Frederic Kyung-Jin Rezeau to unveil the new site alongside some new exclusive MusicNFTs from Shark Anthony  Please follow and subscribe for more content! 

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The only thing a user needs to log in to Vibrant is their phone number. That's it. No secret key, no password, just a phone number. That's because a SEP-30 wallet like Vibrant doesn't manage and backup a single master key. Instead, it manages device keys, and uses multi-sig and distributed servers to create new ones when necessary. It still does many of the same things other wallets do — it stores and protects a key; it helps a user sign transactions; it prevents loss — but the loss it prevents is different: it prevents users from losing their accounts, not their keys.

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Muxed accounts, a new type of Stellar account that makes it easy to map a single Stellar address to multiple users, are now live.

At this point, all products and services built on Stellar need to make sure they can validate and send payments to muxed accounts. Additionally, products and services that use a pooled account model should come up with a plan to implement muxed accounts on the receive side to improve user experience and eliminate missing memo problems.

Before muxed accounts, exchanges and other custodial services that use pooled accounts required users to add memos to transactions in order to route payments to the correct account in their internal databases. The biggest problem with relying on memos: user error. People frequently forget to include required memos when submitting transactions, which resulted in lost funds or onerous support calls.

Muxed accounts eliminate the need for memos, and contain a checksum that can be validated like traditional Stellar addresses, so there is a reduced risk of typos. They also allow users or applications to apply memo-like functionality at the operation level, so they can bundle multiple payment operations to multiple muxed accounts into a single transaction, which may be beneficial to some applications.

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Streamed live on Dec 9, 2021 • Whether you have a smartphone or a feature phone, you can send money to friends, store safely without banking fees, and cash in and out using mobile money. Leaf currently operates in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya.  Leaf works with all major mobile money providers in the countries where we’ve launched. That means that you can send and receive money across borders and Leaf to Leaf transactions are always free. Live in Rwanda but have family in Kenya? With Leaf, you can easily send money in one currency and have friends and family receive money in another currency.

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I'm live with the CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation as we discuss some of the biggest Stellar events of the year. From their partnership with Tala to the their integration with Moneygram. 

Denelle leads the Stellar Development Foundation - a non-profit organization building, sustaining and growing the Internet for payments using blockchain technology. At SDF they build the Stellar Network with the awesome mission of "global financial inclusion." She works with her team who is inspired by the mission, excited to build the technology and poised to make it all come together and achieve real and impactful solutions.

Prior to her current role she was the Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary at Mozilla Corporation, During her time at Mozilla she spearheaded Mozilla’s legal, policy, business, revenue and operations in defense of an open, transparent and commercially sustainable Web. She has been a vocal advocate for net neutrality, encryption, the disclosure of vulnerabilities by governments and greater user choice and control.

Before joining Mozilla full-time in 2012, she was an external advisor for the organization. Her past experiences also include working at private equity firm Terra Firma on brand issues and risk assessment and managing Yahoo!’s legal team advising on products, human rights, antitrust and litigation issues.  

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Litemint is the leading gaming and NFT marketplace on the Stellar Blockchain. On this episode I bring together 3 of their hottest NFT artist to discuss their journey into the world of NFTs, their experience building on Stellar and get them to share some insights to help inspiring artist succeed. 

Joining them is CEO and developer Frederic Rezeau to discuss the overall platform and glimpse into the future goals of their ecosystem.

To view the original Episode

Link to Ink's Litemint Store

Link to Nettie's Litemint Store

Link to Ravage Universe Litemint Store

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Smartlands is the next-generation Stellar blockchain-based global investment and digital banking ecosystem. The Company's proprietary technological solutions allow asset owners to turn the ownership right to a share of any asset in any asset class into a tradable digital token attributing it almost unlimited liquidity.  The President of Ukraine signed into law a decree that now allows the Ukrainian Central Bank, The National Bank of Ukraine, (NBU) to issue a CBDC or digital hryvnia. The law also enables the NBU to set up regulatory structures for testing payment services and other allied instruments based upon new and emerging technologies. 

It is worth noting that the legislation requires the NBU to form a close collaboration with local start-ups in the digital asset space to ensure that the end product of the e-hryvnia takes into account the needs of the private sector. In a further positive for Smartlands, the NBU announced earlier this year that it had chosen the Stellar blockchain network as the platform on which it will build the hryvnia CBDC. So it is instantly compatible with all aspects of the Smartlands platform immediately after it is launched.  The team visits to discuss all of this and details how their Smartlands Stellar based token will revolutionize tokenized investing forever.  

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Mike Kennedy co-founded Zelle, the largest peer-to-peer payment mobile app backed by the biggest banks in the U.S. and now is the CEO of Velo which uses the Stellar blockchain to power-what they plan to be- the largest payment system in the World.   

He visits to discuss the recent announcement of Velo Labs, TEMPO Payments, and Bitazza Thailand opening up a remittance corridor between 27 countries in the EU region and Thailand.   

The cross-border transactions leverage the Velo Protocol, Velo tokens, and Velo digital credits, which are one of the most compliance-friendly and price-stable virtual assets. Plus each transaction settles in seconds, thanks to the speed of the Stellar blockchain. Through this partnership with Velo Labs, TEMPO Payments and Bitazza, both licensed financial institutions, are leading the way in revolutionizing international payments by connecting the ASEAN and EU markets, representing about $17 billion and nearly 600 million customers.  

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Stephen is a co-founder and partner at DFS Lab, leading its investments in early-stage digital commerce startups in Africa. He has also spent time advising global clients on the growth of fintech and ecommerce in frontier markets such as those in Africa, China, and Indonesia.   

DFS Lab in collaboration with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has launched a call for applicants for a Blockchain Bootcamp, designed to give early to mid-stage startups in Africa an opportunity to build on Stellar, an open-source blockchain network for financial services and products.  

The bootcamp is a three-day design sprint allowing participating companies to answer critical business questions with hands-on technical support and guidance from DFS Lab and SDF. Companies will define a problem, storyboard a solution, and develop a rapid prototype of their innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to support the blockchain-oriented ideas of African developers and startups, equip them with practical tools and education, and provide support to create viable solutions that fit local needs.  

The most promising solutions will be awarded prizes from 5,000 to 20,000 USDC. There will be opportunities for follow-on funding for additional grants, including potential investment from SDF’s Enterprise Fund and other investors who will be present at the demo day. Interested fintech companies, blockchain native companies, and crypto-curious companies operating in Africa and looking to advance existing services or embed digital asset solutions into their models for the first time are all encouraged to apply before August 20, 2021.

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Ecosystem for the Stellar Development Foundation, Justin Rice, swings by the studio to discuss the possibility of AMMs coming to the Stellar Blockchain. Projects such as Uniswap have shown that automated market makers are effective at providing easy-to-access liquidity at scale. The simplicity and non-interactivity of liquidity pools can attract large amounts of capital and enable high volumes of trading. We believe adding automated market makers to Stellar will improve overall liquidity on the network.  

Goals Alignment  This proposal is aligned with several Stellar Network Goals, among them:  

-The Stellar Network should run at scale and at low cost to all participants of the network  

-The Stellar Network should enable cross-border payments, i.e. payments via exchange of assets, throughout the globe, enabling users to make payments between assets in a manner that is fast, cheap, and highly usable.  

-The Stellar Network should make it easy for developers of Stellar projects to create highly usable products.  

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The President of the Minority Programmers Association, visits the studio to discuss their mission to inspire and grow the minority programmer population in the blockchain community. Blockchain, and Stellar in particular, for the first time allows unprecedented access to the global financial infrastructure once blocked from minorities in various countries across the planet. He shares insight on his exciting experience in Blockchain, how he got connected with the Stellar Development Foundation and why it's his mission to inspire more awareness and growth for minorities in this space.   

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Lumenswap is an open-source client for the Stellar network that allows you to swap and trade assets on the network using a friendly, minimal interface.  In this episode George Naylor, advisor for Lumenswap, visits the show to discuss their platform as well as their 4 recent milestones: 

1. Launch of the new website

2. The introduction of Spot Trading

3. The announcement of their LSP Asset

4. Lumenswap Academy 

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Live with Head of Strategy, Sam Trautwein, of Wyre on their new Savings API with Stellar. Wyre provides a wide variety of world-class payment APIs to power your fintech application.   Wyre announced that they're using the Stellar network to offer new yield-earning savings products leveraging Stellar USDC token. The product is available directly through Wyre’s Savings API and allows developers to completely white-label high-yielding Savings accounts to their end users.  Offering a yield significantly larger than traditional U.S. savings accounts, all enterprise clients can access this Savings API for their own use or to provide additional earning services for their customers. Customers can also take advantage of Stellar USDC and XLM tokens within our other offerings, such as Wyre Checkout and Card Processing API.  This news comes after a $5 million investment in Wyre via the Stellar Enterprise Fund earlier this year. On top of the Savings API, Wyre customers have an easy on-ramp to Stellar assets like USDC and XLM, utilizing the network’s low-cost, high-speed transaction technology.  

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Kicking off Stellar Global Financial Inclusion week with LIVE podcast today at 11amEST with The Bigger Pie Founder Bridget Greenwood. We’ll discuss what she’s doing to address the lack of female diversity in leadership roles in Blockchain and see how Stellar can play a role.   

"The Bigger Pie is here to support professionals and businesses in the blockchain, cryptoasset and distributed ledger sector.  As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector we focus our efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering #womeninblockchain. Research shows that businesses which embrace diversity and inclusion in gender, ethnicity and culture are profitable and successful.  It’s our job to make it easier for businesses to adopt good practice in a diverse workforce. We help you by providing support and resources for female founders and employees, raising visibility, attracting talent, and finding the right expertise for your teams."  

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In order to bring more complex features to the Stellar network without sacrificing the network’s efficiency, SatoshiPay received a grant from the Stellar Development Foundation to explore Pendulum, a suite of open, decentralized protocols on which smart contracts can be developed and executed.  The Pendulum chain acts as a second layer on top of Stellar, with additional bridges to two of the most popular smart contract platforms, Ethereum and Polkadot.  Founder and CEO Meinhard Benn is here to explain the details.

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Sri Lanka is on the verge of making Colombo Port City the next financial hub of South Asia under the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative. Sharmilan Somasundaram, CEO and Co-Founder of Niftron utilizes Stellar and has positioned himself and his company to be at the center of this excitement transformation. 

Niftron is a Blockchain as a Service platform which allows business and organizations to integrate blockchain with their projects easily and efficiently to improve trust by providing transparency, security and ownership. It is a blockchain agnostic platform with cross-chain transaction support which will allow our clients to connect with any type of blockchain they want without learning each individually and easily switch to another blockchain without developing it again from scratch. Niftron aims to make blockchain simple and affordable for businesses at all levels and industries. It was developed in a way that it can be used by any developers without having prior knowledge about blockchain and offering the services based on a pay-as-you-go model.  

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I sit down with Justin Rice, Head of Ecosystem, for the Stellar Development Foundation to discuss the exciting upgrades heading to the Stellar Blockchain with the upcoming Protocol 17 upgrade that comes to a vote June 1st.  Protocol 17 introduces a single new feature that opens up new possibilities for issuing regulated assets on the Stellar network.

Asset clawback is designed for businesses issuing regulated financial instruments, such as money market funds, bonds, and equities.  To comply with securities regulatory requirements in many jurisdictions, these issuers — or their designated transfer agents — must demonstrate the ability to revoke assets in certain situations, and this new feature allows them to do that.

To enable asset clawback, Protocol 17 introduces a new account flag, new trustline and claimable balance flags, and new operations to take advantage of those flags. When the right account flags are set, an issuer can clawback a full or partial balance or a claimable balance, and can set and clear trustline flags as necessary.

Before Protocol 17, there were a limited number of regulated financial instruments on Stellar because there wasn't a great way to comply with securities regulations that require the issuer revocation ability. There were some suggested solutions that relied on multi-sig, but they gave the issuer signing power over the asset holder's account and compromised the custody of other assets in their wallet, and so they weren't viable for most people. With the introduction of Asset Clawback, issuers can easily tokenize all kinds of funds, bonds, and equities, and they can do so in a compliant manner. By connecting these new assets to the existing network of anchors — services that provide users all over the world to access the network in their local currency — Stellar allows issuers of regulated assets to extend their reach, access new markets, and increase access to the world's financial infrastructure.

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Sam sits down with Tori Samples and Nat Robinson who co-founded Leaf Global Fintech. Leaf Global Fintech uses the Stellar Blockchain to position it self to be the better way to help you store, protect, and transport your money—no matter where you go. Whether you have a smartphone or simple feature phone, you can send money to friends, store safely without banking fees, and cash in and out using mobile money. Leaf currently operates in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya.

Leaf works with all major mobile money providers in the countries where we’ve launched. That means that you can send and receive money across borders and Leaf to Leaf transactions are always free. Live in Rwanda but have family in Kenya? With Leaf, you can easily send money in one currency and have friends and family receive money in another currency

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Cowrie Exchange is a Nigerian based fiat to crypto gateway that provides a way to trade cryptos with local fiat currency in the region.

Sam Conner and Ladi Okorodudu, from the Cowrie Exchange, discuss what the Cowrie Exchange has done so far for Nigeria and how it plans to be the leading African payment network using Stellar.  The discussion begins with Ladi explaining the current state of Africa and the entrepreneurial spirit of Nigerians.  Ladi then highlights how the Cowrie Exchange integrates directly with the Nigerian banking system - allowing payment in NGNT, an asset backed digital token pegged to the Nigerian Naira, to cash payout of Naira at the local brick and mortar bank in 60 seconds. 

Ladi shares his experience with the people at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), including a recent heartfelt outreach from the SDF's CEO Denelle Dixon. 

Ladi then provides insight into the Cowrie Exchange's decision to use the Stellar network as compared to Ethereum.  The discussion then moves to the End SARS movement where Ladi provides his perspective into that movement and the youth in Nigeria.  The podcast ends with big plans for the future with the Cowrie Exchange's planned expansion from Nigeria to several other countries in Africa.

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I sit down with Trust Jakarasi of Uhuru Wallet, a Stellar based digital wallet and payment system living on WhatsApp for Southern Africa. The app offers a wide range of features: Send Money – Buy Electricity – Buy Airtime – Pay Dstv & a lot more all within in WhatsApp.

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Clic.World is creating an end-to-end community centric financial based eco-system in Africa using the open and inclusive Stellar network. 

Sam Conner and Andre van Zyl (co-founder of Clic.World) discuss Clic.World's six-year journey, from inception to big plans for 2021 - the year when Andre believes the handbrake will be released and everything is going to happen.  The discussion starts with a promise of sharing Uganda's Big Gorilla Coffee and a declaration from Andre that this coffee powers Clic and is not for amateurs. 

The discussion quickly moves to Africa and the need to bring technology that supports and makes more robust the African model of social banking rather than trying to force the monolithic banking model that works in other areas of the globe.  Andre explains his excitement when he first read the Bitcoin white paper and how he now believes Stellar built on that white paper and made possible a solution to the financial problems that Clic.World is working to solve.  

The podcast ends with recent successes with African regulators and an exciting roadmap with partnerships that put Clic at the financial crossroad for modernizing social banking across all of Africa.

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Kevin Campbell joins the show to discuss why he chose to become an investor and Ambassador for the Stellar based Futbol app. In this fun conversation Kevin takes us through his days in the Premier League, where he played with teams such as Arsenal and Everton, as well as the great work he's done with the Bring Hope Foundation.

"TheFutbolApp (TFA) by pandaHAUS was built to provide a single platform allowing players, coaches, clubs and fans to engage in the digital activities surrounding football that are important to them in a simple and powerful way.

By implementing TheFutbolCoin (TFC), we build a transactional framework and digital economy within that app that allows the wealth of the community to be shared with its participants, contributors and stakeholders."

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Christian Peters, CTO and Co-Founder of Dstoq swings by to break down two new features that debuted on Stellar with the Protocol 15 Upgrade, Claimable Balances and Sponsored Reserves.

DSTOQ, a Liechtenstein-based FinTech company, helps make investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets, through a borderless digital interface for security tokens built on the Stellar network, a global, decentralized open source blockchain. Through the DSTOQ interface, users have easier access to blue chip shares, such as Tesla or Amazon, as well as bonds, indices and commodities using fiat or cryptocurrencies.

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Meinhard Benn, Founder of Satoshi Pay, swings by the studio to share the breaking news of their sister DTransfer company partnering with German's oldest bank, Bankhaus von der Heydt, to become the first user of its recently revealed euro-backed stablecoin (EURB) built on Stellar. 

While on the show, Menhard talks about his plans with both Satoshi Pay and Dtransfer, why Stellar and what the future outlook is. 

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"SatoshiPay’s recently introduced service DTransfer is a system to execute instant cross-border payments. Instead of the traditional banking system, it utilizes Stellar, a decentralized network for storing and moving money. The Stellar network maintains a list of accounts, their balances and a history of their transactions. It supports an unlimited number of different tokens that accounts can hold and exchange. There are many different types of tokens; for the purposes of this blog post we want to focus on one-to-one fiat-backed tokens (for short fiat tokens,also known as stablecoins) that are issued by regulated financial institutions that maintain reserves of fiat currencies equivalent to the value of the issued tokens. Such financial institutions are called anchors[1]. Anchors usually also allow to swap fiat currencies outside of Stellar for their fiat tokens and vice versa."- for more information https://satoshipay.io

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Eugenio Benetazzo Italian economist  follower of the Malthusian doctrine, author of numerous bestsellers of economic and financial content, among the first financial influencers in Italy by virtue of the millions of views his video clips have on  YouTube . Graduated in Business Administration, professional trader and independent asset manager, lives and works between Italy, Spain and Malta, he is considered a real financial guru thanks to his unparalleled ability to read and synthesize the financial and socio-economic landscape of our time.

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Justin Rice is the Stellar Developments Foundation's Head of Ecosystem. On this episode he swings by the LIVE studio to address the "Myth-Understandings" surrounding the Stellar network and break down the basic utility functions XLM plays.

Justin speaks on behalf of developers building on the Stellar network and coordinates the members of the Stellar ecosystem, with the ultimate focus on growth and development of that system. He became familiar with the Stellar technology and its benefits during his time working in product development. In that role, he helped build an exchange, called StellarX, which utilizes the Stellar open-source technology.

Justin holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

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Smartlands is a digital investments platform with a proven use case for tokenizing shares in real assets. Having its mission of tokenizing the real economy and bringing all its benefits to a broad audience, Smartlands develops alternative investments instrument offering for sale Initial Coin Offerings in asset-backed structures. The SLT is a cryptocurrency of the Smartlands ecosystem. It is limited to a maximum of 7.1mn tokens and runs on the Stellar open-source network. 

Smartlands is a pioneering alternative investment platform, getting ready to launch its real estate project in Ukraine and developing an SME tokenization program. The Smartlands management team is constantly on the lookout for new asset classes to which the Smartlands IP can be applied to increase real demand for the SLT token further as new ventures are added to the Smartlands ecosystem.

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Saldo.mx aims to make it easier, less costly, and safer for migrant communities to make cross-border remittances to pay bills at home.

Sam and Marco, the founder of Saldo.mx, discuss the tremendous need that exists in the remittance space and how Saldo.mx aims to solve the problem by offering a digital peso (also known as a stable coin or a peso anchor) on the open and inclusive Stellar network.  In addition to highlighting the real need for more efficient cross-border remittances, Marco explains regulations, why Saldo.mx ultimately picked the Stellar network, what the community can do to help drive network effect, and his ten-year ambition to be the most important fintech.

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Task is a mobile application with a Stellar wallet embedded providing the ability to track team and community activities with flexible ramp on/off integrations.  Let’s dig in to what Task enables organizations and users to do.  

1. Economic communities Connecting people through economic communities is central to what Task does. Payments can be made when an activity is completed, they can be standard user to user payments, or they can be sent as an “Award” with a message.  We believe tokens can bring communities together - whether a stablecoin, a traded coin, or a private branded token with non-financial value, these exchanges between users create a place of reward and connectivity.  

2. Token payments in exchange for verified activity Getting paid when an activity is completed has far reaching ramifications - it allows funds and grants to “drip feed” investment into projects, delivering micro-payments as work is done. Task allows optional verification of activity before payment is released to protect funds.  

3. Blockchain ledger tracking of any event All the activity gathered using the Task mobile app uses a one way hashing algorithm to represent this data in the Stellar transaction memo field. It means that data gathered via Task cannot be tampered with, and it increases the data veracity of the organisations using Task to gather and prove their impact.  Let’s look at a use case . 

Our customer ACTAsia tracks vet activity across China, providing pain-free operations to animals. 

We can see:  ACTAsia are using our IMPACT token to track and reward, and here we see the hashed data stored in the Stellar transaction history https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/tx/2adac78b558f1b8bf42406941d8c0d52ad8b7b75c7fe7ef56e7a4aa33ca83ea4 

We use the blockchain to not only provide payments, but also to build out the data story with critical proof points to see that the organizations and communities creating real impact are the ones who shine the most.  

4. Donor visibility into fund usage We also support the provision of donations to projects - and for donors we use the Blockchain ledger tracking to provide ongoing proof of how their funds are being used. They are able to login to the Desktop version of Task and get a transaction history of how their donation money was utilised.  

5. Crowd voting and awards Awards were mentioned earlier - but it's worth adding that these subjective Stellar payments against the activities tracked means Task can provide decision mechanisms, letting the community vote with their tokens.  

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Eric Kryski, CEO and Co-Founder of Bidali swings by to discuss how they are utilizing the Stellar Blockchain to revolutionize the payment and money transfer experience across the globe. Bidali is a new digital commerce experience that helps you keep more of your money. Businesses that use Bidali can increase sales, save on fees, get paid faster, and eliminate fraud. Users can get paid to shop, send and receive money for free and get exclusive offers. 

In addition to their app Bidali is also involved in several global initiatives. During this interview he touches on their work with the Bermuda government and shares insight on an initiative with Goslings Rum. Gosling’s is working with Bidali,  with support from the Bermuda Government’s fintech office and Penrose Partners, a Canadian and Bermudian technology consulting firm. The rum company will accept contactless payment through the Stellar network.

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Sam sits with Thomaz Brandão Teixeira, CEO and Co-Founder of Ntokens a programmable money company.  Their work is to bring a scalable and innovative approach to global financial markets.

Their initial product is a Brazilian Real stablecoin.  Initially running on Stellar Network and Ethereum, the stablecoin allows people and businesses to transition from banking fiat system to crypto finance and vice-versa.

In this interview Thomaz discusses why he choose Stellar, their business trajectory and discusses the power blockchain and Stellar has in bridging the economic divide. 

Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments. Stellar makes it possible to create, send and trade digital representations of all forms of money—dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network. 

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DSTOQ, a Liechtenstein-based FinTech company, helps make investing accessible and affordable for people in emerging markets, through a borderless digital interface for security tokens built on the Stellar network, a global, decentralized open source blockchain. Through the DSTOQ interface, users have easier access to blue chip shares, such as Tesla or Amazon, as well as bonds, indices and commodities using fiat or cryptocurrencies.

DSTOQ’s first market will be Vietnam, followed by South Africa and other African, SouthAmerican, and Asian developing countries. DSTOQ users require only a smartphone to access global financial markets, which thanks to Stellar’s infrastructure layer, makes the entire process not only more accessible but also more efficient.

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Live with Lisa Nestor, Senior Director of Ecosystem for the Stellar Development Foundation. Lisa touches on why Circle bringing USDC to the Stellar network is such a big deal as well as provides insight on some upcoming developments.

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Denelle Dixon is the CEO and executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the growth and development of Stellar, an open-source blockchain network for money transfers from digital currency to fiat, which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies. The SDF was founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim, and it has since partnered with global firms such as IBM and Franklin Templeton. The Stellar network aims to achieve “global financial inclusion” through blockchain technology.

In this candid interview we take a journey with Denelle from her early days as a Clerk at the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii to defending privacy on the Ted Talk stage.  Denelle is an incredible and dynamic individual that will be one of the biggest names you'll need to know in Blockchain. 

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Mike Kennedy co-founded Zelle, the largest peer-to-peer payment mobile app backed by the biggest banks in the U.S. and now is the new CEO of Velo which uses the Stellar blockchain to power what he plans to be the largest payment system in the World. Listen as he shares his journey into crypto, from working with Stellar founder Jed Mccaleb as an advisor to the Stellar Development Foundation to running Interstellar ( a for profit arm of the SDF) to finally leading Velo. 

Singapore-based fintech company Lightnet Pte. Ltd. earlier this year entered into a strategic partnership with, among others, Malaysia-based Asia Digital Bank Ltd. (Labuan Investment Bank), and British Virgin Island-based Velo Labs Technology Ltd. to jointly develop cross-border business solutions.

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Jordan brings his experience to the Stellar Development Foundation from years being a Marketing Manager at General Mills where his roles included projects like Pop Secret and Yoplait along with his 10+yrs as VP of Global Marketing with EA where he oversaw the marketing team for gaming franchises such as The Sims as well as various marketing roles over Madden NFL and NBA LIVE.

Today Jordan serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for the Stellar Development Foundation, and in this interview, shares with the Stellar Family the unique hurdles marketing crypto brings, how marketing in the gaming industry prepared him for the passionate Stellar community,  major milestones reached since he began with Stellar and what the community can expect in marketing coming out of the SDF moving forward.

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Frederic Kyung-Jin Rezeau, CEO and Founder of Litemint unveils to the world their new NFT store. NFTs have taken the globe by storm as everyone from award winning artists to professional sport icons have latched on to the craze. Learn the basics of what an NFT is as well as how he'll leverage the power of  Stellar to make NFTs more accessible than ever before. At one point he even shows Sam how, through Stellar's Path Payment, he's able to make a purchase of an NFT with an Apple stock (APL)

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LIVE with Jason Chlipala, COO of the Stellar Development Foundation chatting about CBDC, the Stellar Enterprise Fund and much more #XLM
Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments. Stellar makes it possible to create, send and trade digital representations of all forms of money—dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network.  

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