{ "method": "submit", "params": [ { "secret": "<SECRET>", "tx_json": { "TransactionType": "TrustSet", "Account": "<your Stellar address>", "LimitAmount": { "value": "<the amount you trust the issuer to hold>", "currency": "<the currency the issuer will hold>", "issuer": "<the issuer's Stellar address>" } } } ] }

<SECRET> on



WARNING: POSTing your secret to live.stellar.org is potentially insecure; you would be better off signing requests locally; a blog post on this may be forthcoming. You can findon your Stellar settings page ; everything else will obviously depend on what you're trying to do.POSTing your secret to live.stellar.org is potentially insecure; you would be better off signing requests locally; a blog post on this may be forthcoming.



You'll then need to POST this to the API:

curl -X POST https://live.stellar.org:9002 -d'<JSON>' You'll then need to POST this to the API:





Once you run that, you're done! There's a bug in Stellar that means that newlines and/or indentation cause problems, so you'll need to make the above JSON just a single line and slot it in to the above command line.Once you run that, you're done!

Recently Stellar , a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies, was announced. I decided to have a play around (because why not?). A core concept to Stellar is that of a gateway; an individual or organisation that takes a deposit (in 'real' currency) and credits you on the network. Coinex are a New Zealand-based gateway, and are the first gateway for Stellar; they put up a challenge to be the first person to use them as a gateway (which I won!). To do this, you have to say that you trust that gateway to hold a particular amount of currency; in this case I wanted to publish the fact that I trust Coinex to hold up to $20 NZD for me.To do this, you'll need to interact directly with the API (Stellar clients are still playing catch-up), and submit the following JSON: