“The US government could decide to treat USDC as a second legal currency, which would be hugely powerful." - YC's Sam Altman PROJECTS Secure but Usable Account Creation Tyler van der Hoeven is rebuilding Colorglyph and in the process has developed a better user onboarding solution with Auth0, Webtask, and Authy 2FA. Link PROJECTS FairX Full-Time IBM Blockchain’s CTO, Michael Dowling, has left IBM to work full-time on his startup FairX “as things started wrapping up with development and...the regulatory side of things”. Link CBDC YC's Sam Altman is Talking CBDCs “The US government could decide to treat USDC [“US Digital Currency”] as a second legal currency, which would be hugely powerful. USDC could require that certain transaction can only happen with wallets with known owners.” Link ANCHORS Stronghold Goes Kiwi Stronghold is moving a portion of their operations to New Zealand as a hedge against US regulations and has “a series of game changing announcements coming over the next several weeks.” Link ECOSYSTEM Kin Forks Stellar The Kin Foundation decided to fork Stellar. From what I can tell, this is primarily because of the required account minimum. Kin basing their DLT on the Stellar codebase is a vote of confidence similar to the use of the Stellar Consensus Protocol by Moxie/Signal's MobileCoin. Link CBDC US Fed Governor on CBDC A former Fed governor said that the Fed should consider creating “FedCoin, where we would bring legal activities into a digital coin.” It would be an “effective way when the next crisis happens for us to maybe conduct monetary policy.” Link WALLETS Some of our Favorite Wallets I tested most of the available Stellar wallets to find my favorites. These selections were based primarily on user-friendliness with only one selected per category. They are presented in no particular order. Link TOKENIZATION Whitelisting Asset Holders Last month, Director of Partnerships Boris Reznikov expanded on tokenizing real-world assets on Stellar. "Whitelisting holders is a native feature. You don't need to create a Solidity smart contract to implement this. This...saves time and money...it's much more secure. We've all seen how many Ethereum smart contracts have been hacked." (low quality audio) Link JOBS Senior Fullstack JavaScript Developer

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McCaleb speaks on a panel at Consensus about DLT in the developing world.

May 14, 2018 | Consensus 2018 McCaleb speaks on a panel at Consensus about DLT in the developing world.May 14, 2018 | Consensus 2018 WEEKLY TASK Help BlockEQ compile a list of exchanges' Stellar addresses to prevent users from sending funds to an exchange without the required Memo ID. Link WEEKLY GIF Does order settlement occur on chain/on ledger? Centralized exchanges maintain the private key holding your newly traded tokens. With Ethereum DEXs and the Stellar DEX, the trade occurs on chain/on ledger. ❤️,

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