“This makes DSTOQ up to 100,000 times faster than traditional stock exchanges, where settlements usually take 2-5 days.” - DSTOQ EDUCATION Nodes, Network, and the Ledger The third video in the Stellar Overview Course is out. This animated explainer video covers node types, what the “ledger” is, and what incentives businesses have for running a node in the Stellar network. Link DEX Decentralized Stock Exchange on Testnet DSTOQ - a decentralized stock and securities exchange - launched its testnet MVP. They will provide a legal framework for custodians to tokenize assets and a UI for trading tokenized assets like equities, bonds, stocks, oil and gold. News Site DEX Compliant Tokenized Securities SharesPost - a liquidity provider for private capital markets (e.g. pre-IPO cash outs) - announced that they will be adding the Stellar DEX as an “exchange node”, allowing “issuers listing security tokens on the Stellar Decentralized Exchange to trade compliantly in every major market globally in the years ahead.” Link ECOSYSTEM Dala/Wala on Laura Shin’s Unconfirmed Podcast On today's Unconfirmed, Tricia Tita of Dala/Wala describes how her new venture "hit 100,000 new wallets and 2.5 million in transactions in two months with an average transaction size of around $0.27", and why she chose Stellar for micropayments. Link WEEKLY GIF A Stellar node does not have to be as complex or expensive as a Bitcoin mining rig. It can be a simple laptop connected to the Internet, which opens up access for the developing world. Each node runs open-source software called Stellar Core. ❤️,

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