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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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