“I discussed the idea with our major customers. As I described Stellar’s model, they were overwhelmingly supportive of us taking this step, giving me the confidence that the enterprise market was ready to take public networks seriously.” - Adam Ludwin, Interstellar CEO ECOSYSTEM Lightyear Acquires Chain, Becomes Interstellar SDF’s for-profit arm Lightyear officially acquired Chain and formed a new entity called Interstellar. Details: Interstellar’s products will enable institutions to issue, exchange, and manage assets in private and public environments.

Private use case: Chain’s Sequence product allows businesses like Visa and Nasdaq to move and track assets between internal accounts.

Public use case: When assets need to move between businesses, they can move on the Stellar network’s public ledger.

indicated that Chain’s customers “were overwhelmingly supportive of us taking this step, giving me the confidence that the enterprise market was ready to take public networks seriously.” Chain/Interstellar CEO Ludwinthat Chain’s customers “were overwhelmingly supportive of us taking this step, giving me the confidence that the enterprise market was ready to take public networks seriously.” Ludwin explains why Chain merged with Lightyear in a tweetstorm. Link

Interstellar press release. Link

CoinDesk coverage. Link

Yahoo Finance’s video interview with Ludwin. Link COMMUNITY Reputational vs. Economic Consensus SDF/Interstellar advisor Jeremy Rubin’s TechCrunch article stipulating that ETH will collapse to $0 received a response from Vitalik. Jeremy tweetstormed a response to Vitalk’s reply, suggesting that if ETH goes to $0, Ethereum PoS consensus can no longer function because it’s dependent on ETH having value, whereas, if lumens go to $0, Stellar consensus can continue because it’s reputational and not economic. Link COMMUNITY SDF Announces SBC7 Results Some highlights: StellarGuard Transaction 2FA by Paul’s

tutorial Adolfo’s in-depth Venmo-on-Stellar

BlockEQ’s non-custodial iOS wallet

quorum explorer Tinco’s Link ASSETS Asset Audit API Tyler van der Hoeven is building an asset audit API endpoint that returns a list of the most trusted issuers of different assets. “Signals will include things like native asset balance, total trustlines, verified account data like home domain, toml file and inflation destination, account activity, total payments, age of account, multiple signers, other active and trusted trustlines issued from account.” Link PROTOCOL Lightning on Stellar = Starlight With the announcement of Interstellar came some more clarity around Lightning on Stellar - it is a project by Interstellar and is called Starlight. Link NEWS ICO services platform TokenSoft now supports Stellar. Link



McCaleb on Cheddar. Link WEEKLY GIF All the nodes together make up the Stellar network, like the servers that make up the network that is the Internet today. WEEKLY FACT OrbitLens , creator of ledger explorer Fact provided by, creator of ledger explorer StellarExpert

2,659,242 failed transactions were recorded on the ledger. Tremendous losses in fees for reckless developers? No, only 61 $XLM in total for 2.5M transactions thanks to #Stellar low fees. When was the last time you checked your bot? - Kyle Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up to receive an email like this one every week. I find the most interesting Stellar developments from the week and deliver them to you every Friday morning.