JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. Coindesk teamed up with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) to host a live webinar to discuss what to expect on the path to mainstream adoption and regulatory clarity. A SDF blog announces that the fintech company Stably makes financi…

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, is interviewed by Sue Rocco from Women to Watch Media. Dixon says, "As the Mom of five boys, some days I feel really old, and other days I feel young." Dixon also posted a blog post…

Daniel from Public Node interviews Steve Walker - the CEO and Co-Founder of Task.io. After a quick introduction, Steve explains how Task leverages the Stellar.org blockchain technology to help further the missions of nonprofit organizations. Steve explains how Task uses the open and inclusive Stellar blockchain network to provide token rewards and …

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) provided updates on its response to Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) draft guidance. The SDF announced the Stellar Community Seed Fund finalists. Through a series of blogs, the SDF will showcase…

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) released its Q1 2021 review. A few of the highlights include launching USDC on the Stellar network, Enterprise Fund investments in Wyre, Cowrie Integrated Systems, and DSTOQ. Release of Horizon 2.0 …

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. This week started hard with news of issues on the Stellar network. Several exchanges paused transfers on the network during the network event. The network stayed up, but several Stellar service providers were impacted that use SDF Horizon …

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. In news this week, a Nasdaq article reports that Stellar lumens need an institutional audience to become top altcoin. The report states that the Stellar blockchain can reduce or eliminate the complexity of the Nostro-Vostro process - when …

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. In news this week, Bloomberg adds price data for 6 new crypto assets - including Stellar XLM. Mike Kennedy, former CEO and Co-Founder of Zelle, makes a guest appearance on the How Success Happens podcast where he talks about Inter/Stellar,…

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. In news this week, The Stellar Development Foundation announced the release of Horizon 2.0. This upgrade brings massive performance and architecture benefits that make running Stellar infrastructure easier than ever. Next, Thailand's large…

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. In news this week, the Hack the System event started on the 25th of February 2021 and will last six weeks. The Stellar Development Foundation announced there will be a Women Building in Blockchain event on March 8th where Denelle Dixon wil…

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. News this week includes an upcoming Stellar-based Hack the System event where programmers can earn XLM prizes to complete certain Stellar-related challenges. Stellar Lumens (XLM) Hack the System from February 25, 2021 to 10 Weeks Forward. …

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news. On Sunday Cointelegraph included Stellar Lumens in their top 5 currencies of the week. It also included BTC, DOT, LINK, and THETA. On Tuesday Yahoo Finance reported that “Lightnet Expands Payout Services Across Southeast Asia Through Colla…

Brian and Daniel discuss their observations of cryptocurrency market prices. Specifically, that they tend to go up and down together more often than they do not. They then provide some explanations for why that might be, but also point out that it's still a bit unusual given how different many blockchain projects are from each other - like gold and…

FinClusive's mission is to bring secure, compliance-centered banking to the 2.5 to 3.5 billion people and businesses worldwide who are financially excluded or underserved. FinClusive is using the open and inclusive Stellar network to deliver on this mission. Sam Conner and Amit Sharma (CEO of FinClusive) discuss Amit's background and how the United…

Clic.World is creating an end-to-end community centric financial based eco-system in Africa using the open and inclusive Stellar network. Sam Conner and Andre van Zyl (co-founder of Clic.World) discuss Clic.World's six-year journey, from inception to big plans for 2021 - the year when Andre believes the handbrake will be released and everything is …

Brian and Daniel discuss the two exciting new features that went live on Stellar with the release of Stellar Core Protocol 15. The features are claimable balances and sponsored reserves. Brian and Daniel explain how these two features combine with the fee-bump feature that was released with Protocol 13 to provide developers the trifecta of tools ne…

Cowrie Exchange is a Nigerian based fiat to crypto gateway that provides a way to trade cryptos with local fiat currency in the region. Sam Conner and Ladi Okorodudu, from the Cowrie Exchange, discuss what the Cowrie Exchange has done so far for Nigeria and how it plans to be the leading African payment network using Stellar. The discussion begins …

Sam Conner and Tyler van der Hoeven from the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) discuss the current state of the Stellar Community Fund (SCF) and the robust launch of Stellar Quest. The interview begins with Tyler in his parents' basement picking apples and planting pumpkins. It ends with Tyler's palpable excitement around Stellar Quest. Tyler ex…

COINQVEST provides cryptocurrency payment processing so that a business can accept and settle payments in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Stellar Lumens while also keeping accountants and tax authorities happy. COINQVEST, in conjunction with the Stellar blockchain technology, also allows the business to receive national currencies like EUR, USD or NGN regard…

Bitbond improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds with the help of Stellar blockchain technology and tokenization. Sam Conner and Radko Albrecht, CEO and founder of Bitbond, discuss Bitbond's early accomplishments, partnerships, regulations in Germany, and an exciting future of financial inclusion. Radko explains that Bitbond Token (BB…

Saldo.mx aims to make it easier, less costly, and safer for migrant communities to make cross-border remittances to pay bills at home. Sam and Marco, the founder of Saldo.mx, discuss the tremendous need that exists in the remittance space and how Saldo.mx aims to solve the problem by offering a digital peso (also known as a stable coin or a peso an…

TheFutbolApp by pandaHAUS is a social network for the world's football community (also know as the soccer community). TheFutbolApp leverages the open and inclusive Stellar payment network so that its participants can earn and spend the apps TFC token (TheFutbolCoin). In this podcast, Sam Conner interviews Steve Van Zutphen, the CEO and co-founder, …

Brian and Daniel discuss digital wallets on the open and inclusive Stellar network. They explore the business cases for custodial and non-custodial wallet providers and highlight the opportunities and challenges particular to non-custodial wallets since non-custodial wallet providers do not hold any assets. Albedo.link is discussed and how it aims …

The Velo Protocol is a value transfer engine that will initially consist of two components: a Digital Credit Issuance Mechanism and the Digital Reserve System. Sam and Michael discuss how blockchain technology will provide much needed modernization to remittances. In this interview, Michael explains the Seven Eleven connection to Velo Labs in Asia,…

Sam Conner discusses the Kelp trading bot with Nikhil Saraf from the Stellar Development Foundation and Wouter Arkink from Stellarbattle. Kelp is a free, customizable, open-source trading bot for the Stellar universal marketplace. Topics include an overview of what the Kelp software can do, how it aims to provide liquidity to the Stellar Decentrali…

Brian and Daniel discuss the cost to submit an operation to the public ledger on the open and inclusive Stellar network. They provide their take on whether validators should approve an increase in the current minimum fee of 100 stroops - about one millionth of a dollar when XLM is valued at ten cents each. Fees on Stellar are used to economically d…

Sam Conner announces his partnership with Public Node as the newest content creator of Public Node community podcasts. Sam introduces his vision for his podcast to provide breaking news, the background of that news, and his perspective on its importance in changing the Stellar ecosystem or even the world at large. He has plans to host interviews an…

Brian and Daniel discuss storing digital assets on Stellar with custodial and noncustodial wallet solutions. They discuss the pros and the cons of both approaches and highlight that both solutions are getting better but still have more to solve before we can expect complete adoption of blockchain value storage and payment solutions. Brian and Danie…

Daniel and Martin Wainstein discuss the OpenSolar proposal in round 5 of the Stellar Community Fund. Daniel and Martin discuss the features and attributes of the Stellar blockchain protocol and which are being used and coveted when designing a new method for investing, financing, developing, and running solar arrays around the world. Features and a…

Brian and Daniel discuss making payments on the Stellar network. Topics include the speed of transactions on Stellar relative to Visa, real world examples of the need to modernize global payments, and the Stellar payment applications currently available to merchants. The podcast ends with Brian's determination to crack the egg and finally put an en…

Brian and Daniel discuss the mostly untapped potential that the Stellar network could bring to gaming. Topics include a quick overview of Blizzard Entertainment's 2011 venture into an in-game auction house that let players sell game assets for USD and Litemint's leadership in the blockchain gaming space. The podcast ends with both realizing the nee…

Brian and Daniel kickoff Public Node's first podcast and provide their shared inclusive vision for future podcasts by inviting the Stellar community to come be a part in forming future discussions. Brian and Daniel then go on to discuss the proposed Stellar Core version 13 upgrade and present their non-developer perspectives on CAP 0027 and CAP 001…