The Stellar Podcast

Stellar is an open financial network built for speed and efficiency. With over 4 million accounts and a 5-second ledger close time, Stellar is the right choice for your financial service or application. Join us each week as we discuss the news, applications, and developers building the future of finance on Stellar.

Stellar LIVE: July 17th

Watch on YouTubePublic Node PodcastThe Stellar Community Fund

07-30
39:22

The Digital Dollar for Emerging Markets with Kyle McCollom

Did you know the SDF has an entire product team? Aside from building and maintaining our web presence they're also involved in building key ecosystem products like our latest and greatest dollar savings product Vibrant! Press play to hear from Sr. Director of Product, Kyle McCollom on what it's like drinking our own cool-aid using Stellar to build real, viable, innovative fintech applications.VibrantKyleTwitterKeybase

07-02
30:54

Stellar News Recap: Vibrant Beta Launch and the Stellar Community Fund

It's been awhile since we've had a moment to breathe for a nice Stellar News Recap episode. There's been so many great launches, updates and events over the past few months. Our two biggest highlights from the past couple weeks though would have to be the Vibrant beta launch and the start of the Stellar Community Fund round 5. Let's talk about it!Vibrant Beta LaunchStellar Community FundKoltenTwitterKeybaseEmailTylerTwitterKeybaseEmailMiscStellar Community BlogLitemint Stellar Battle

06-25
33:01

Building a Minimum Viable Ecosystem with Lisa Nestor

Building any ecosystem from scratch is hard but a financial ecosystem is doubly difficult. There are many factors at play and each component must grow together in tandem, carefully giving and taking from other participants to support the growth of all. It's a delicate task yet it's one our very own Lisa Nestor is keen and capable to tackle. Tune in this week to catch her history and roll in fostering the complex ecosystem developing around Stellar.Lisa NestorTwitterKeybase

06-18
30:50

Stellar LIVE: June 12th with Special Guest Justin Rice

Join Kolten, Tyler and special guest Justin Rice to discuss all things Stellar Ecosystem! If you're able we'd highly recommend watching this on YouTube. You don't want to miss a very special LEGO segment with Justin.Watch on YouTubeStellar Community Fundhttps://galactictalk.org/d/2380-stellar-community-fund-round-5Justin RiceTwitterKeybaseProtocol 13 Explainedhttps://www.stellar.org/blog/protocol-13-improvementshttps://www.stellar.org/developers-blog/how-we-simplified-fees-on-the-stellar-network

06-13
01:02:52

Building a Profitable Business on Blockchain with Konstantin Richter from Blockdaemon

Building a business on blockchain is hard. Aside from the normal challenges of scaling and finding product market fit there are the additional challenges of a highly volatile market and constantly evolving technical landscapes. Konstantin Richter of Blockdaemon is no stranger to these challenges and is forging ahead creating profitable business for other blockchain based businesses. Listen in to hear his insights, struggles and optimism around building for profit in blockchain.https://blockdaemon.comhttps://twitter.com/konstantin11

05-28
27:51

Accessible and Affordable Investing with Craig Mc Gregor from DSTOQ

What if I told you it were possible for anyone anywhere to get unrestricted access to stocks, bonds, or ETFs for zero fees! Sound too good to be true? It's not, it's DSTOQ. As Stellar Development Foundation's first enterprise investment we couldn't be more excited with the vision and product behind DSTOQ. Listen in to hear DSTOQ's CEO Craig Mc Gregor walk us through the why and what of this incredible project.https://www.dstoq.comhttps://twitter.com/dstoqhttps://twitter.com/CraigDSTOQ

05-21
30:34

Open Source Funding and Remote Community Development with Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin

The Stellar Development Foundation loves open source, and here at the podcast we have a special affinity for open source funding, which allows people to get paid for creating the world's most essential and accessible tooling. You can understand our excitement then when we ran across Kevin Owocki and his Gitcoin project. Kevin has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about — and building solutions for — the problems raised by open source funding as well as remote community development.  Listen to learn how Gitcoin helps people get paid to work on free software. Gitcoinhttps://gitcoin.co/landinghttps://gitcoin.co/issue/stellar/hackathon-get-startedhttps://twitter.com/gitcoinhttps://twitter.com/owockiStellar Community Fundhttps://stellarcommunity.fundhttps://galactictalk.org/d/2294-stellar-community-fund-season-2-is-open/56Protocol 13https://github.com/stellar/stellar-protocol/blob/master/core/cap-0015.mdhttps://github.com/stellar/js-stellar-sdk/issues/529

05-14
37:02

Stellar LIVE: May 7th

Join Kolten and Tyler to discuss the latest news and updates in the Stellar ecosystem LIVE! If you're able we'd highly recommend watching this on YouTube. You'll appreciate seeing our faces, especially mine. 😉Watch on YouTubeStellar Community fundhttps://medium.com/stellar-community/stellar-community-fund-round-4-nominations-have-closed-here-are-our-finalists-d9103aaf1682https://stellarcommunity.fund/Gitcoin Hackathonhttps://gitcoin.co/hackathon/new-york-blockchain-week/?tab=hackathon:20Consensushttps://www.stellar.org/eventsNew Docs/APIhttps://developers.stellar.org/docs/https://developers.stellar.org/docs/building-apps/https://developers.stellar.org/apiProtocol 13https://www.stellar.org/developers-blog/guide-to-protocol-13-prephttps://github.com/stellar/stellar-core/releases/tag/v13.0.0

05-08
33:35

Building a Security Company with Ledger

Ever wonder what it takes to build and run a state of the art hardware wallet company? What are the tough choices and compromises? Who keeps everything running and improving? Wonder no longer: today we're talking with Fabrice and Benjamin of Ledger covering these questions and more as we discuss the mission-critical roles they both play within security company Ledger.Ledger.com

04-30
28:25

Building Stellar Core with Jon Jove – Part 2

CAP-0023Riveting CAP-0023 DiscussionJon Jove on GitHubJon Jove on KeybaseVote in the Stellar Community Fund

04-23
40:54

Building Stellar Core with Jon Jove – Part 1

Stellar Core on GitHubThe Stellar Consensus ProtocolJon Jove on GitHubJon Jove on Keybase

04-16
20:20

Stellar LIVE: April 10th

Watch on YouTubeThe Stellar Community FundNEW Stellar Events Page1st Stellar Engineering Talk1st Round Table Discussion0:00Welcome and intro3:00Stellar Community FundDiscussion round is open!5:10Live events, engineering talks, round table discussions and hackathonsStellar.org/eventsTwitter.com/StellarOrg10:00Stellar assets and their existential natureKolten's Assets and Trustlines slideshow presentationWatch on YouTube29:30Tyler's engineering talk on "Practical path payments"30:10Questions!Q: Why would anyone need an asset on Stellar?35:45Q: What's a good way to issue Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Stellar?40:30Q: Is there any way to make a Bitcoin anchor a bit decentralized?45:20Q: Do you guys see Stellar being the defacto backend for other blockchains? Or is this space in full isolation mode at the moment?48:15Like, Subscribe and share!podcast.stellar.orgwww.youtube.comkeybase.io/team/stellar.publicmedium.com/stellar-community

04-10
51:04

Leading Through a Pandemic with Denelle Dixon

Denelle on the WebTwitter: https://twitter.com/DenelleDixonLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denelle-dixon-967a236

04-02
28:49

Stellar News Recap: Virtual Events, Stellar Community Fund and Creating a Cash App on Stellar

Stellar Eventswww.stellar.org/eventsStellar Community Fundhttps://communityfund.stellar.org/SEP24 & Path PaymentsStellar Ecosystem Proposal 0024SEP24 client demoKolten's path payment articleSolar Wallet

03-26
28:57

Why Stellar is Exciting According to Sam Conner

https://twitter.com/samconneronehttps://keybase.io/samconnerhttps://keybase.io/team/stellar_global

03-19
24:15

Stellar News Recap: HackNYU 2020

HackNYU 2020WinnersStellar Tips OrBit Bob

03-12
30:53

Public Node, a Stellar Community Project with Daniel Fisher

https://publicnode.orghttps://twitter.com/publicnode

03-05
27:21

Stellar Community LIVE: February 27th

start - 3:50Welcome and intro3:50 - 5:20Regulator conversationsRegulators are warming up5:20 - 7:10Will there be a Meridian conference this year? Yes!Face to face meetings are meaningful7:10 - 9:10Thoughts around unofficial communitiesLocalized communities are very importantStellar community is in a cool growth stage9:10 - 12:10Stellar Community Fund season 2Value of the SCF12:10 - 14:20Any plans to recruit more developers?Workshops, docs, tutorials, hackathonsMore about hackathons14:20 - 18:20https://github.com/tyvdh/hack-stellarBuilding client services on Stellarhttps://github.com/tyvdh/stellar-demo-walletFully featured demo Stellar wallet18:20 - 19:50Hackathons as a source for feedback on docs19:50 - 22Don't know much about DSTOQWe don't have inside information, we know what you knowWe're not gatekeepers to the network22 -28:30Current state of scalabilityHorizon updatesHorizon explained28:30 - 31What's this "thing" for?Highlights the difference between what the SDF does for Stellar and what companies build with Stellar31 - 44:20 ⭐️Best way to handle wallets?Key storage and managementAlbedo → https://albedo.linkOnly expose features necessary for your servicePut yourself in your user's shoes44:20 - 52:40 ⭐️What business value does Stellar truly provide?That's up to the businesses building on StellarStellar is a network not a productThe value is the networkStellar is versatileStellar as a payments engineOur stakeholders are the builders52:40 - endClosing, links and wrap uphttps://keybase.io/team/stellar.publichttps://podcast.stellar.orghttps://medium.com/stellar-communityhttps://galactictalk.org

03-02
58:43

Bidcoins, Stellar, and Arbitrary Data Storage with Nick Papillon

https://bidcoins.iohttps://twitter.com/bidcoinshttps://github.com/ipfshttps://twitter.com/hashtag/ipfs?src=hashtag_clickLive AMA ShowNext Thursday, Feb 27th @ 3pm ETr/Stellar ➜ stellar_community_podcast_live_ama_thursday_feb_27

02-22
22:42

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