"With Stellar we can do way more transactions, way faster confirmation times and several orders of magnitude lower transactions fees." - Ted Livingston, Kik Founder NEWS Kik Founder on Why Stellar + Ethereum Ted Livingston, Kik Founder and CEO, recently laid out why Kik is combining Stellar and Ethereum to power Kik's token KIN. In his opinion, Stellar & Ethereum are better together. The question for us becomes which one will happen faster: 1) exchanges and wallets adopting Stellar-based tokens (not just Lumens, but KIN, MOBI, etc), or 2) Ethereum getting transaction costs, speeds, and confirmation times close to Stellar. Link TOKENS Kik Load-Tested the Stellar Network The source of the high transaction volumes last week may have been Kik load-testing Stellar ahead of their planned launch of KIN on Stellar. Link NEWS Load-Testing Approached Ethereum Volumes The load testing last week reached almost 700k operations in a day, close to Ethereum’s volumes for that day according to Tempo CTO Anthony Barker. Link EXCHANGES Kraken Relaunches XLM/USD Pair After rapid growth overwhelmed their platform and caused them to delist fiat pairings for Lumens, Kraken upgraded their technology and have now relisted XLM/USD and XLM/EUR. Link ANCHORS Out-of-the-Box Anchor Using Stripe This may be illegal and against Stripe’s ToS, but the concept is way cool ;). @jackkleeman created an “all-in-one package for running a USD anchor on Stellar using Stripe to accept deposits and pay withdrawals.” Link WALLETS New Experimental Approach to a Web Wallet LumenVault launched this week with an interesting take on a more secure web wallet. This gets slightly complicated: Using multi-sig, LumenVault adds two additional signers to your account, giving you the secret key of Account B and storing the secret key of Account C on their server. Your original key (Account A) can still sign transactions without B or C so you are not reliant completely on LumenVault, but if you want to sign a transaction and don’t want to expose your secret key to a keylogger, you can sign with Account B on LumenVault and they’ll sign with Account C. Link ANCHORS Stellar Anchor for the Colombian Peso @abuiles’s new anchor AnclaX launched a beta last week in Colombia. After you wire them Colombian Pesos (COP), they issue you COP on the Stellar network, which you can trade for XLM on the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (via StellarTerm or StellarPort). English translation available at the bottom left of the site. Link WALLETS iOS Stellar Wallet - Public Beta @aasatt announced the public beta of his new iOS app Rocket Wallet. It’s fairly well done, and keys are stored in the iOS keychain. Sign up using TestFlight and tinker with it! Link NEWS Easter Egg on Stellar.org Inspect element on Stellar.org, view source code, and check out the easter egg :). Link Hope you have a Stellar weekend. Reply back with ideas for what you want to see in this newsletter.



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P.S. The next Letter will go out on a Monday - we are experimenting with open rates on different days!