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Stellar Global Radio with Sam: Exploring the Stellar Blockchain and Beyond
By Sam ConnerTechnology
Stellar Global Radio with Sam: Exploring the Stellar Blockchain and Beyond episodes
- LIVE with Sam Trautwein of Wyre to discuss a New Savings API powered by Stellar enabling global savings accounts!
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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22 min - The BiggerPie Founder Bridget Greenwood here to discuss the lack of female diversity in Blockchain
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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34 min - Satoshipay CEO discuss a new second-layer blockchain connecting Stellar to the wider DeFi ecosystem
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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17 min - Live with Sharmilan Somasundaram, CEO and Co-Founder of Niftron
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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32 min - LIVE: Justin Rice of the Stellar Development Foundation exploring MAJOR Protocol 17 proposal
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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31 min - LIVE with Tori Samples and Nat Robinson, Co-Founders of Leaf Global Fintech
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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39 min - Public Node Special: Ladi Okorodudu, from the Cowrie Exchange. Africa and Blockchain
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.Support the show (https://publicnode.org/#membership)
(written by Daniel Fisher)
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48 min - Live with Trust Jakarasi, Co-Founder of Uhuru Wallet an African Stellar wallet and anchor
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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38 min - Public Node Special: Interview with Andre van Zyl (co-founder of Clic.World) discuss Clic.World
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.Support the show (https://publicnode.org/#membership)
(written by Daniel Fisher)
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43 min - Live with Football Legend Kevin Campbell, Ambassador for the Futbol App
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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About Stellar Global Radio with Sam: Exploring the Stellar Blockchain and Beyond
From the publisher's feed
Sam is your #1 source for all the latest news on the ever-evolving world of Blockchain. Sam is the founder of the Stellar Global Community, Strategic Advisor at Litemint and the Lead for Digital Assets at The Digital Economist. With over ten years of experience in the digital assets space with a keen focus on sustainable protocols and projects designed to help advance financial inclusion and expand economic opportunity, he runs a series of live interviews and crypto meetups to build international collaborations to support Web 3.0 founders.
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