Stellar is an open network for storing and moving money.
Awesome Stellar is a curated list of Stellar applications, blog posts, educational resources, tools, and more.
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👨🚀 Contents
- Official Channels
- Community
- General Overview
⭐ - Blogs and Beginner Guides
- Case Studies and Insights
- Network Statistics
- Developer Resources
- Developer Educational Resources
- Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
- Projects Building on Stellar
- Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors)
- Store Your Stellar Assets
- Use the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
- Videos, Podcasts, and AMAs
Official Channels
- Stellar Website
- Github
- Keybase
- SDF Blog
- Stellar Community Blog
- Stellar Developers Blog
- YouTube
- Stellar Podast YouTube
Community
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The Stellar Podcast - A weekly podcast that discusses the news, applications, and developers building the future of finance on Stellar.
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Inside Stellar - A community run podcast that interviews Stellar People building Stellar Projects.
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Stellar discussions by Public Node - Public Node community members discussing all aspects of the Stellar ecosystem - from brainstorming to developer interviews and everything in between.
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Galactic Talk - A community of Stellar users, developers and traders.
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Stellar Community Fund - An exciting way for developers to flex their creative muscles and introduce new applications and use cases to the Stellar ecosystem, voted on by the community.
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Stellar Torch - A Stellar community experiment. The Stellar Torch is a transaction that is sent from person to person.
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Stellar Keybase Team - A Keybase team to discuss all things Stellar.
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Stellar Global Keybase Team - A community run Keybase team to discuss all things Stellar.
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Reddit - Stellar Subreddit with 100,000+ members.
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Stellar StackExchange - Developer focused community and a place to ask dev related questions.
General Overview
If you're new to Stellar start here
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Quick Summaries
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Intro to Stellar Assets & Anchors
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Intro to the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
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Intro to the Stellar Consensus Protocol
Blogs and Beginner Guides
Case Studies and Insights
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Why IBM Built World Wire on Stellar: The Developer Experience
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How SatoshiPay is Using Stellar to Transform Online Publishing
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How Saldo is Using Stellar to Reimagine Cross-border Payments
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Paysend Group Launches Global Stablecoin on the Stellar Network
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
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XLM launches on the back of a game-changing partnership (Wirex)
Network Statistics
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Stellar Dashboard - Monitors network status, ledger close times, fee stats, lumen distribution and more.
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Stellar Status Updates - Get status updates on the Stellar network, Horizon, the test network, and more.
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StellarExpert - Block explorer and analytics platform for the Stellar network.
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Lumenscan - Block explorer and analytics platform for the Stellar network.
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Stellarbeat - Information about nodes and validators on the network - includes a quorum monitor.
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Galactic Vision - A 3D network and quorum explorer.
Developer Resources
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Stellar Dev Digest - Weekly newsletter covering all things around the Stellar developer ecosystem.
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Stellar Core - stellar-core is the backbone of the Stellar network. It maintains a local copy of the ledger, communicating and staying in sync with other instances of stellar-core on the network.
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Astrocore - Astrocore aims to become an alternative implementation of the stellar-core, the core component of the Stellar network.
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Stellar Protocol - Developer discussion about possible changes to the protocol.
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Stellar Docs - Stellar documentation.
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Stellar Laboratory - The Stellar Laboratory is a set of tools that enables people to try out and learn about the Stellar network.
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Stellar SDKs
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Interact with the Stellar Network
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Horizon API - Horizon allows you to submit transactions to the network, check the status of accounts, and subscribe to event streams. Servers hosted in the US.
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SatoshiPay's Horizon API - SatoshiPay's alternative to Stellar.org's Horizon API servers. Servers hosted in the US, Europe, and Asia.
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Astrograph - A GraphQL interface to the Stellar network.
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go-stellar-ipfs - A library that is a bridge between Stellar and IPFS.
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Stellar Ticker API - Provides the freshest data about Markets, Issuers and Assets on the Stellar Network.
- GraphiQL for Stellar Ticker - an in-browser tool for writing, validating, and testing GraphQL queries.
- Ticker API Documentation
- Assets Endpoint - Displays information about all assets available.
- Markets Endpoint - Displays 24-hour, 7-day and orderbook information about markets that were active during these periods.
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Useful Tools
- Hack Stellar Boilerplate - This Hack Stellar app is a boilerplate collection of basic Stellar functions. You can either hack this Stencil project into whatever you're trying to build or just cut and paste out the functions from here into your own project.
- StellarBurrito - An open-source wrapper for the JavaScript Stellar SDK.
- Stellar Vanity Address Generator - A simple CLI tool to generate custom Stellar vanity addresses.
- Stellar transaction signers inspector - Discover required signers, weights, and build optimal signature schema for Stellar transactions and accounts.
- Cosmic.plus libraries
- cosmic-lib: implement CosmicLink & SEP-0007.
- ledger-wallet: Ledger Wallets support in two lines of code.
- loopcall: Limitless/advanced queries to horizon.
- oc-multisig: On-chain multisig account coordination.
- Create Stellar Token (Testnet) - Script that creates a custom Stellar token on testnet.
- Cosmic.link SEP-0007 debugger
- Cosmic.plus applications
- Equilibre.io: wallet-independent portfolio balancer for Stellar (first app to use delegated signing)
- Cosmic.link: CosmicLink protocol frontend.
- Stellar Authenticator: Security-oriented wallet. (+ useful dev tool)
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Validator Tools
- Fast Stellar Core Catch Up - Starting a full stellar core validator from scratch takes a while, as the node needs to download and process a lot of data during the "Catch up" phase. The catching up phase usually takes more than a month. This script helps to make the process significantly shorter, as it allows to perform the catch up of multiple ledgers blocks in parallel.
- Parallel Stellar Core Catchup - Sync a full Stellar validator node (including full history) as fast as possible. Split the big ledger into small chunks of size CHUNK_SIZE. Run a catchup for the chunks in parallel with WORKERS worker processes. Stitch together the resulting database and history archive.
- Stellar Parallel Catchup - Catchup Stellar node history in background.
Developer Educational Resources
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Developer Guides and Concepts - These guides are designed to help you learn more about the technical aspects of integrating Stellar into your application or service.
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Get Started Building Stellar Applications: New York Blockchain Week Hackathon
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Fee Bump Transactions Explained - A look at transactions on Stellar, the costs involved in submitting them,problems that could arise submitting transactions pre-Protocol 13, and how fee bump transactions solve them.
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Building your own Venmo with Stellar - This tutorial will show you how to create an anchor maintaining a Stellar account for each customer, hiding the implementation details. It will use the programming language JavaScript and the mobile wallet will be written using React Native.
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Explore Stellar Addresses and the Stellar DEX using Python - In this tutorial you'll be creating a script that takes in a Stellar address and returns the XLM balance. You will also convert that XLM balance to USD using the new ticker API for the Stellar DEX.
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Distributed Trustless Workers with Stellar - An in-depth look at how Stellar’s advanced features can be used to create a “smart contract” between a customer and an anonymous and untrusted worker.
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I Just Wrote a Stellar Smart Contract & I Just Wrote a Stellar Smart Contract Pt. 2: Let’s Dig a Little Deeper - Exploring Stellar 'smart contracts.'
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Hacking Stellar - This online book introduces you to Stellar with lots of practical examples using the command-line client, Lumen. Incomplete but useful nonetheless for understanding basic concepts.
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol - Useful information regarding SCP.
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Engineering Talk Series
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
The Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) provides a way to reach consensus without relying on a closed system to accurately record financial transactions. SCP simultaneously enjoys four key properties: decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security.
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Mathematical Analysis and Algorithms for Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems
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Blog Posts
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Talks by David Mazières
Projects Building on Stellar
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Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors) - Financial institutions issuing assets on the Stellar network.
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Stellar.org Project Directory - Another project directory maintained on Stellar.org
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Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone with a built in Stellar wallet.
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DSTOQ - DSTOQ is on a mission to introduce micro investing to billions of people around the world.
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Money Clip - MoneyClip stores Canadian Dollars inside your phone. You can split bills, buy & sell online, and easily pay friends and family using digital cash. It’s quick, secure, and easy to use.
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Nodle - Nodle is the world’s largest ecosystem of connected devices, providing infrastructure, software and access to data for the Internet of Things.
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SatoshiPay - Global, fast and easy micropayment solutions.
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Settle Network - Settle provides programmatic interoperability between traditional and digital assets, by leveraging our financial infrastructure in every country we operate.
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StellarAuth - StellarAuth increases user security and enables key management across applications and user actions with more grace and simplicity than any 2FA system out there.
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RealtyBits - RealtyBits is the first blockchain based marketplace for buying and selling real estate assets with digital currencies from anywhere in the world.
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Kapilendo - Kapilendo is a banking platform for SMEs and issued its first blockchain-based digital bond on Stellar.
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DealBox - A feature-rich digital securities issuance and investment platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors to enable the future of investing and capital formation.
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Tempo - Tempo is an international money transfer, money and crypto exchange company. It offers online, offline and crypto remittances to nearly 100 countries.
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Wirex - A U.K.-based payments platform and issuer of stablecoins on Stellar.
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COINQVEST - Enterprise Cryptocurrrency Payment Processing on Stellar. Accept digital currencies, settle in USD, EUR, NGN.
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Velo - Velo is a Credit and Reserve Protocol enabling digital credit issuance and borderless asset transfer for businesses using a smart contract reserve system.
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SureRemit - Nigeria-based global non-cash remittances company.
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Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.
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Blockdaemon - Spin up and deploy Stellar nodes within minutes.
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Public Node - Stellar nodes funded by the community.
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Rehive - Rehive is a platform and toolkit for building fintech apps on Stellar.
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Stellar Battle - Win community funded prizes.
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COINQVEST - COINQVEST helps online merchants and e-commerce shops programmatically accept and settle payments in new digital currencies while staying compliant, keeping their accountants and tax authorities happy.
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Litemint.io - PvP card battles (cards issued as NFTs on Stellar).
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Litemint.com - Built on Stellar, Litemint is a crypto wallet loaded with free instant games. Take on the daily live challenges, earn collectibles and rewards straight in your wallet.
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Tangem - An NFC card wallet that supports Stellar assets.
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Saldo.mx - A way for migrant workers to pay family members' bills across borders.
Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors)
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AnchorUSD - Redeemable and stable cryptocurrency anchored 1-for-1 to the US dollar. All deposits are secured in US-domiciled bank accounts.
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Tempo - Tempo's EURT is a stable coin, backed by on hand cash, 1 EURT = 1 EUR.
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StableCoin - Deposit BTC and ETH in exchange for a fully backed 1:1 asset on Stellar; Powered by Coinsquare.
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Apay (Papaya Anchor) - Papaya anchors multiple crypto assets to the network including BTC, LTC, and ETH.
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Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.
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Cowrie - Cowrie anchors NGNT, an asset backed digital token pegged to the Nigerian Naira.
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Stellarport - Stellarport anchors assets such as BTC, ETH, and LTC.
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MINTX - MINTX supplies GOLD, SVLR, PLAT and PALL tokens priced to the physical metals global spot price +3%.
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Firefly - Firefly is a wallet provider and an issuer of the Chinese Yuan.
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Smartlands - Smartlands is a platform for tokenizing real world assets by issuing security tokens.
Store Your Stellar Assets
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Keybase - Keybase is an encrypted communication app with a built-in Stellar wallet available on most mobile and desktop devices.
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Solar Wallet - Solar Wallet is an easy to-use wallet with multi-signature transactions. Available on most mobile and desktop devices. Allows users to withdraw stablecoins directly to their bank account.
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Lobstr - Lobstr is a custodial wallet with 2FA key recovery. This wallet allows you to store any Stellar-based asset and perform trades on the Stellar decentralized exchange.
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Litemint - Litemint is an open source, non-custodial wallet allowing you to store any Stellar asset and trade on the SDEX. It also offers an app and game ecosystem powered by decentralized cross-currency purchases through Stellar path payments.
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Tangem - An NFC card wallet that supports Stellar assets.
Use the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
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User Interfaces for the DEX
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Trading Bots
- Kelp (free & open-source) - Kelp is a trading bot for the Stellar universal marketplace.
- Rockfish (free & open-source) - Rockfish is an arbitrage bot for the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (SDEX).
Videos, Podcasts, and AMAs
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Videos
- Denelle Dixon shares the growth strategy for the Stellar network in 2020
- SFBW19 - Fireside Chat: Jed McCaleb & Denelle Dixon
- Crypto Assets: How are They Being Used to Make Payments on Blockchain?
- What is IBM Blockchain World Wire?
- Jed McCaleb - Money 20/20 Interview
- Jed McCaleb, Stellar, and Jesse Lund, IBM, Announce World Wire
- IBM's Jesse Lund and Stellar's Jed McCaleb answer audience questions at Blockchain West
- CFCon USA 2018 / Jed McCaleb & Adam Ludwin / Issuing assets on blockchain
- Stellar with Jed McCaleb at Distributed: Markets 2017
- Jed McCaleb: How Many Lumens Till Stellar (2017)
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Podcasts
- Money 3.0: Denelle Dixon from the Stellar Development Foundation
- Thriller Blockchain Week - S2EP 01: Kori and Kyle from Stellar
- Jed McCaleb: Stellar And The Vision Of An Open Financial System
- Making cross-border payments seamless | Blockchain Pulse Podcast S01E02
- #004 - Stellar - Founder Jed McCaleb
- Lisa Nestor on Digtal Assets Weekly
- Lisa Nestor podcast with Matt Case
- Tempo Director Anthony Barker with Finance Magnates
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AMAs
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