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.

👨‍🚀 Contents

• Stellar Meridian
• 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

Stellar Meridian

Introducing Meridian. A new financial future is coming, and it's built on Stellar. Let's talk about it at Meridian. Agenda coming soon. Buy early bird tickets now!

Stellar Meridian is a two-day conference taking place November 4-5, 2019 in Mexico City.

Official Channels

• Stellar Website
• (BETA) Stellar Website
• Github
• Twitter
• Keybase
• Medium
• Stellar Community Blog
• Stellar Developers Blog
• Reddit
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Community

• Galactic Talk - A community of Stellar users, developers and traders.

• 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.

  • Round 1 Winners
  • Round 2 Announcement

• Stellar Torch - A Stellar community experiment. The Stellar Torch is a transaction that is sent from person to person.

  • The Stellar Torch is Lit

• Stellar Keybase Team - A Keybase team to discuss all things Stellar.

• Reddit - Stellar Subreddit with 100,000+ members.

• Stellar StackExchange - Developer focused community and a place to ask dev related questions.

General Overview

If you're new to Stellar start here 👇

• Quick Summaries

  • Learn how Stellar unites the world’s financial infrastructure.
  • Lumenauts - What is Stellar?
  • Lumenauts - Educational Twitter Moment
  • Crypto Explained - What is Stellar?
  • Coinbase Earn - What is Stellar?

• Intro to Stellar Assets & Anchors

  • What are Stellar Lumens?
  • Asset Issuance Explainer
  • Stellar Assets and Anchors
  • How banks, businesses, and people use Stellar

• Intro to the Stellar Decentralized Exchange

  • Decentralized Trading Explainer
  • How the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Works
  • How to Buy and Sell on the Stellar Decentralized Exchange

• Intro to the Stellar Consensus Protocol

  • How does Stellar protect digital assets?
  • How the Stellar Consensus Protocol (Federated Byzantine Agreement) Works

• Intro to Inflation

  • What is Inflation?
  • FAQ - Inflation & Inflation Pool
  • Lumenaut Pool - 100% inflation payout, no fees. By the community, for the community.

Blogs and Beginner Guides

• The Future of Money

• Help! I forgot my Stellar memo.

• How Changes are Made to the Stellar Network

• How to Stay Safe on Stellar

• Anatomy of a Stellar Scam

• How to Set Up a Mult-Sig Wallet

• Stellar - What's in your wallet?

• How to Use Lumens on the Ledger Nano S

• How could Kelp bot help Stellar?

Case Studies and Insights

• Why IBM Built World Wire on Stellar

• Why IBM Built World Wire on Stellar: The Developer Experience

• IBM Blockchain World Wire: How it Works

• How SatoshiPay is Using Stellar to Transform Online Publishing

• How Saldo is Using Stellar to Reimagine Cross-border Payments

• Central Bank Digital Currencies

• Charting the Evolution of Programmable Money

• Paysend Group Launches Global Stablecoin on the Stellar Network

• Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

• Why We Chose Stellar - BlockEQ

• Stellar Network: Growth and Decentralization

• XLM launches on the back of a game-changing partnership (Wirex)

Network Statistics

• Stellar Dashboard - Monitors network status, ledger close times, fee stats, lumen distribution and more.

• StellarExpert - Block explorer and analytics platform for the Stellar network.

• Stellarbeat - Information about nodes and validators on the network - includes a quorum monitor.

• Galactic Vision - A 3D network and quorum explorer.

Developer Resources

• Stellar Github

• 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.

• Stellar Protocol - Developer discussion about possible changes to the protocol.

  • Stellar Ecosystem Proposals
  • Core Advancement Proposals

• Stellar Docs - Stellar documentation.

• Stellar Laboratory - The Stellar Laboratory is a set of tools that enables people to try out and learn about the Stellar network.

• Stellar SDKs

  • JavaScript SDK
  • Go SDK
  • Java SDK
  • Kotlin SDK
  • Python SDK
  • C# .NET Core 2.0 SDK
  • Ruby SDK
  • iOS and macOS SDK
  • Scala SDK
  • C++ SDK
  • Unity C# SDK Integration

• Interact with the Stellar Network

  • 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.

    • Horizon Github Repo

  • SatoshiPay's Horizon API - SatoshiPay's alternative to Stellar.org's Horizon API servers. Servers hosted in the US, Europe, and Asia.

  • Astrograph - A GraphQL interface to the Stellar network.

    • Astrograph Github Repo

  • go-stellar-ipfs - A library that is a bridge between Stellar and IPFS.

    • go-stellar-ipfs Github Repo

  • 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.

• Useful Tools

  • StellarBurrito - An open-source wrapper for the JavaScript Stellar SDK.
  • Stellar Vanity Address Generator - A simple CLI tool to generate custom Stellar vanity addresses.
  • 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

Developer Educational Resources

• 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.

  • How and Why to Complete Your Stellar.toml
  • How to Connect Your Anchor Service to Stellar Wallets
  • Creating Custom Assets on Stellar

• 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.

• 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.

• Stream Ledger Data from the Stellar Network Using Python

• Stellar payments — thoughts on federation, QR Codes, URIs, and Point of Sale systems within the Stellar.org ecosystem

• Sending Secret and Anonymous Memos with Stellar

• 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.

• 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.'

• 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.

• Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol - Useful information regarding SCP.

• How to Create a Custom Token on Stellar in Python

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.

• White Paper

• Blog Posts

  • Simplified SCP
  • Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
  • Why Quorums Matter and How Stellar Approaches Them

• Talks by David Mazières

  • ConsensusDay 1 // Stellar Consensus Protocol - David Mazieres
  • dotScale 2017 - David Mazières - Internet-level consensus is practical
  • David Mazières: "The Stellar Consensus Protocol" | Talks at Google
  • A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus

Projects Building on Stellar

• Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors) - Financial institutions issuing assets on the Stellar network.

• IBM World Wire - A new financial rail that simultaneously clears and settles cross-border payments in near real-time.

• Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone with a built in Stellar wallet.

• SatoshiPay - Global, fast and easy micropayment solutions.

• Token - An open banking and digital money platform that delivers the infrastructure for lower cost, instant and more secure payments.

• Tempo - Tempo is an international money transfer, money and crypto exchange company. It offers online, offline and crypto remittances to nearly 100 countries.

• Wirex - A U.K.-based payments platform and issuer of stablecoins on Stellar.

• Velo - Velo is a Credit and Reserve Protocol enabling digital credit issuance and borderless asset transfer for businesses using a smart contract reserve system.

• SureRemit - Nigeria-based global non-cash remittances company.

• Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.

• Blockdaemon - Spin up and deploy Stellar nodes within minutes.

• Rehive - Rehive is a platform and toolkit for building fintech apps on Stellar.

• Skyhitz - Skyhitz is a mobile platform where musicians can earn Stellar Lumens from their music videos.

Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors)

• AnchorUSD - Redeemable and stable cryptocurrency anchored 1-for-1 to the US dollar. All deposits are secured in US-domiciled bank accounts.

• Token X - Token X is backed 1:1 by fiat money and independently audited to confirm that assets in escrow match the outstanding stablecoins. All major currencies are supported.

• Tempo - Tempo's EURT is a stable coin, backed by on hand cash, 1 EURT = 1 EUR.

• Apay (Papaya Anchor) - Papaya anchors multiple crypto assets to the network including BTC, LTC, and ETH.

• Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.

• Cowrie - Cowrie anchors NGNT, an asset backed digital token pegged to the Nigerian Naira.

• Stellarport - Stellarport anchors assets such as BTC, ETH, and LTC.

• MINTX - MINTX supplies GOLD, SVLR, PLAT and PALL tokens priced to the physical metals global spot price +3%.

• Firefly - Firefly is a wallet provider and an issuer of the Chinese Yuan.

• Smartlands - Smartlands is a platform for tokenizing real world assets by issuing security tokens.

Store Your Stellar Assets

• Keybase - Keybase is an encrypted communication app with a built-in Stellar wallet available on most mobile and desktop devices.

• 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.

• 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.

• StellarX IOS & StellarX Android - StellarX Wallet is a secure wallet built on top of the Stellar Network. It allows you to easily create an account or login with existing StellarX account and is a perfect compliment to the web app.

• BlockEQ - BlockEQ is a private Stellar wallet that allows you to easily create or access an account with a recovery phrase. With BlockEQ you can send, receive, and trade XLM and Stellar tokens on the SDEX, Stellar’s decentralized exchange.

• 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.

Use the Stellar Decentralized Exchange

• User Interfaces for the DEX

  • StellarX
  • Stellarport
  • StellarTerm
  • BlockEQ
  • Interstellar.Exchange

• 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

• Videos

  • 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)

• Podcasts

  • 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

• AMAs

  • Blockchain Week NYC 2019 - Q&A with Jed McCaleb (Video)
  • Blockchain Week NYC 2019 - Q&A with Jed McCaleb (Transcript)
  • AMA with Jed McCaleb and Denelle Dixon (6/5/19)
  • SDF Update & Mini AMA - Jed McCaleb (1/28/19)

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