“We are making this announcement internally at Coinbase and to the public at the same time to remain transparent with our customers about support for future assets.” - Coinbase ECOSYSTEM Boosting TPS with Stellar Channels Jem Mawson - the creator of the Stellar SDK for Scala - lays out (with words and with GIFs) how to use channels to submit transactions to the network at a high rate. Link EXCHANGES Coinbase is Exploring Lumens Coinbase announced that they are exploring the addition of Stellar Lumens to Coinbase. “We are making this announcement internally at Coinbase and to the public at the same time to remain transparent with our customers about support for future assets.” Link CONSENSUS Quorum Slice Visualization Beautiful new visuals of quorum slices are now available at Stellarbeat.io. In the above image, green lines are incoming connections and yellow lines are outgoing connections for Tempo’s validator. Link ANCHORS New Stronghold Tokenized USD Details Stronghold officially announced their anchored USD asset this week in partnership with IBM. The USD will be custodied by an audited, FDIC-insured, Nevada-charted trust company called Prime Trust. The tokenized USD is available for institutional customers and may be available to retail customers in the future. CoinDesk Stronghold IBM ECOSYSTEM Stellar Receives Sharia Certification “The Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB), a leading international Sharia advisory agency licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain, has reviewed the properties and applications of Stellar and has promulgated guidance and guidelines that enable Sharia compliant applications of Stellar technology in Islamic financial institutions.” Link TOKENS KODAKCoin on Stellar KODAKOne is using an ERC20 token for their ICO and the Stellar network for payments and to issue their platform token. Link WEEKLY GIF Because the Stellar Consensus Protocol is asymptotically secure, bad actors are left with collusion. An attacker could create 1 million validators, and unless a majority of other validators add them to quorum slices, they will be unable to affect consensus. ❤️,

- Kyle



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