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

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

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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

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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