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

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.

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:

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.