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

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.

Sam was invited on his show to meet the Italian audience an answer a wide range of commonly asked questions surrounding Stellar and its future outlook.

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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.

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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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