Stellar Ecosystem News

On September 5th, the Stellar network was successfully upgraded to v10 of the protocol! We'd like to thank everyone in the community who came together to create a seamless upgrade. You can learn more about the changes here.



Together We Can is our contribution to Financial Inclusion Week organized by the Center For Financial Inclusion @ Accion. In this post, we share SDF’s vision for achieving financial inclusion globally.



We’re thrilled to announce SDF’s largest lumen distribution to date: an up-to-500 million XLM distribution to users of leading digital asset wallet provider, Blockchain. This represents a major step towards increased access and global network participation.



Stellar Build Challenge Finalist, BlockEq, has been acquired by Coinsquare. This is one of the first major acquisitions of a Stellar-based project.



Interstellar released Starlight: a demo implementation of payment channels on Stellar, and a step toward a Lightning-compatible payment channel network.



We outlined some upcoming initiatives for the Stellar Community in the first post of our Ecosystem Updates series.



Wollo (WLO), created by the fintech-toy company Pigzbe, is the first Stellar-based asset to be listed by Bitifinex. Read the Bitfinex announcement here.



Pigzbe also announced their partnership with Wirex, a provider of cryptocurrency wallets linked to physical and virtual Visa debit cards. The partnership will enable Wollo to be spent across 40 million shops and restaurants, in 210 countries and territories.



BitOasis, a leading digital wallet and exchange in the Gulf Region, announced the addition of lumens (XLM) to its trading exchange, including (AED) and dollar (USD) trading pairs.



Token.io went live with their first Stellar fiat-asset (USD). The White Company (WSD) launched a new Euro asset (WSEUR) and became the first GBP Anchor (WSGBP) in the Stellar network.



Finally, BitGo announced adding support for Stellar, making them “the first XLM-compatible multi-signature wallet and custodial solution”. Read the full announcement here.