"To send someone cryptocurrency, you shouldn't need to pass around big ugly addresses. It's annoying and dangerous." - Keybase ANALYSIS Keybase Partnership - Identity, Wallets, & Payments Keybase will be integrating Stellar directly into Keybase apps, and in this post we speculate as to what that partnership will look like: 1) a better alternative to federation, 2) a beautiful, secure, cross-platform wallet, and 3) a “Venmo” payment solution for Stellar. Once it's live, we think Lumen airdrops will restart. Link NEWS SDF Will Not Be Running Validators at Year End Jed McCaleb recently appeared on CNBC Africa and responded to questions comparing Stellar to Ripple in terms of degree of decentralization and real partnerships. The most interesting new insight: SDF will not be running validators at the end of this year. Link PROJECTS End-to-End Crypto for Merchants & Buyers More details are now available on Drew Wilson and Michael Jackson’s “OAuth for Stellar” solution called Versa, including screenshots. Link FAN FICTION…? Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars This hilarious fan fiction describes how Stellar works using the world of Harry Potter and was written by Patrick Mckenzie - prolific internet writer and current Stripe employee. FYI - This was written when the native asset was called a Stellar, not a Lumen. Link SBC SUBMISSION Automate Stellar Transactions Using AutoXLM Set up automated operations on the Stellar network by using triggers from thousands of potential apps via a Zapier integration. “Send Lumens on a recurring schedule, or by email, or by some other third party service.” Link SBC SUBMISSION Stellar CSV Using this tool, you can quickly convert all of your interactions on the Stellar network into a spreadsheet file for your personal records and for tax purposes. Link NEWS IBM on Currency Creation & Payment Settlement IBM's Marie Wieck references IBM's currency creation and payment settlement solutions built on Stellar. Link NEWS Blockchain-as-a-Service Company Building on Stellar Blockchain-as-a-service company Blockdaemon recently received an investment from Comcast and was apparently chosen by Stellar as the first Stellar deployment partner. "Stellar is important for us. Because we believe the Stellar ecosystem will be the Ethereum of this year." Link 1 Link 2 WALLETS Ledger Update: Check Receiving Address Lenondupe, the developer behind the Stellar app on Ledger hardware devices, has released an updated version of the app with the ability to check the receiving address on screen. To update, you must first upgrade to the new Ledger Nano S firmware. Link NEWS Uber Co-Founder Launches Stellar “Competitor” Garrett Camp of Uber is launching Eco - “an instant, affordable, and borderless means of payment for the masses”. This sounds fairly similar to Stellar, but it lacks decentralized permissionless consensus, a DEX, anchors, and more. It places a heavier focus on being a basic digital currency versus being an internet protocol for payments. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 EXTRA READING Dive Deeper Into the Stellar & Keybase Partnership Keybase post

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