DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Wirex has integrated XLM and USDC on Stellar into its non-custodial wallet, marking the first such wallet without seed phrase vulnerability to support Stellar. The integration expands Wirex Wallet's blockchain support to nine networks.
BPV announces its Spring 2023 events schedule, highlighting attendance at major fintech and blockchain conferences in Stockholm and beyond. They promote their enterprise non-custodial Stellar wallet, Anchor in a Box, and invite meetings or demos. Events include STHLM Fintech Week, MONEY Live, Pay 360, and Paris Blockchain Week.
The Stellar Development Foundation published a step-by-step guide for aid recipients to register with Vesseo wallet, receive USDC through Stellar Aid Assist, and cash out funds via MoneyGram globally or to bank accounts.
Coinbase Wallet will delist XLM and three other major cryptocurrencies effective Dec. 5, citing low usage. Users can withdraw balances after the deadline using recovery phrases.
Stellar Quest Learn launches Level Three with XLM rewards (up to 100 XLM total), introduces a Pioneer Quest for wallet onboarding, and removes wallet connection requirements to reduce friction for new users.
Stax, an African fintech app, received $500,000 from the Stellar Development Foundation's Matching Fund to build a non-custodial USDC wallet on Stellar, enabling offline payments via USSD for users with limited mobile data.
Beans, a non-custodial wallet enabling zero-fee international payments on Stellar, shares insights on winning the Stellar Community Fund Round 10. The app leverages Stellar's fee sponsorship and on/off ramps to simplify cross-border transactions for mainstream users.
This article explains how to integrate the Stellar Network into SME businesses, focusing on public-key cryptography, federation for human-readable addresses, and QR code support in Stellar wallets. It highlights Stellar's advantages over Ethereum ENS and compares it to Bitcoin's bip 0021 payment URIs. Examples include smart anchors like Flutterwave for simplified bank integrations.
USDC on Stellar is now live on Ledger Live, enabling users to securely send, receive, and buy USDC through Ledger hardware wallets. This integration expands network participation and brings low-cost cross-border payments to Ledger's millions of users.
Wyre integrated with MoneyGram's new crypto on- and off-ramp service on Stellar, enabling its 15 million users to convert between fiat and digital currencies. MoneyGram is offering the service fee-free for the first 12 months.
Freighter 2.0, the Stellar browser wallet, now enables users to create, sign, and submit transactions directly from the extension, including trustline management and payments. The update features a refreshed UI built on the Stellar Design System and sets the foundation for future capabilities like asset swaps and claimable balance management.
SDF spotlights two women building on Stellar: Mercedes Madanire in business development and Jeesun Kim in frontend development. They discuss their roles at Vesseo, a USDC wallet for Latin America, and share insights on representation and career growth in blockchain.
tZERO Crypto app now supports XLM alongside Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Compound, and Uniswap, expanding its cryptocurrency offering to 15 coins on iOS and Android.
Leaf Global Fintech, a Stellar-backed digital wallet for migrants and refugees in East Africa, shares insights on winning the Stellar Community Fund. The company emphasizes clear communication, user experience prioritization, and empathetic growth strategies.
THORWallet now supports Stellar asset management with single and multisig wallets, enabling XLM and USDC swaps on mobile. The integration includes Blend protocol access for yield generation, bringing institutional-grade DeFi security to Stellar.
This article explains how to use the Stellar network for everyday payments and remittances, emphasizing its speed, low cost, and ecological benefits over traditional banking. It covers wallet options like Keybase, Lobstr, Freighter, and hardware wallets, security best practices, and methods to spend XLM via exchanges or crypto debit cards. The author shares personal experiences sending XLM to family members.
BitGo becomes the first major custody provider to support Stellar USDC, enabling institutions to securely hold the stablecoin while leveraging Stellar's fast settlement and negligible transaction fees for moving funds between exchanges.
The Stellar Development Foundation submitted a formal comment letter to FinCEN opposing a proposed rule on convertible virtual currency transactions, arguing the regulation misunderstands blockchain architecture and would harm innovation, financial inclusion, and law enforcement effectiveness.
Ultra Stellar LLC acquired StellarX, a popular decentralized exchange on Stellar, expanding its product portfolio alongside LOBSTR wallet and StellarTerm. StellarX enables peer-to-peer trading of digital assets and fiat conversions directly from user wallets.
SDF redesigned the Stellar Account Viewer with improved security features, hardware wallet support, and a new browser wallet called Freighter. The updated AV now emphasizes key management best practices and offers a better mobile experience.
SendIt is a user-friendly wallet built on the Stellar blockchain that enables sending and receiving payments via email addresses, eliminating the need for public keys or technical blockchain knowledge. It supports stablecoins, XLM, and asset swaps like USD to NGN for instant cross-border transfers via Stellar anchors. The testnet is live, with mainnet launch planned in two months to drive mass adoption and financial inclusion.
Stellar ecosystem leaders debate custodial vs. non-custodial key management approaches in a roundtable discussion, exploring how CAP-27 and SEP-30 support different solutions and which the SDF should prioritize for financial inclusion and adoption.
SEP-30 enables user-friendly non-custodial wallets by eliminating recovery phrases and passwords. Users log in with just a phone number while maintaining full account control through device keys and distributed recovery servers. Vesseo, a USD savings app on Stellar, demonstrates this approach in production.
Part two of a key management series explains how Stellar accounts work, covering public/secret keys, master keys, multi-signature capabilities, and common wallet strategies. The post introduces SEP-30 as a better approach to user-friendly key management and account recovery.
Stellar Development Foundation introduces SEP-30, an ecosystem standard for non-custodial wallets that simplifies key management and recovery using multi-signature technology. Users can recover accounts through identity verification rather than managing backup keys, making blockchain more accessible to mainstream users.
StellarTerm announces major updates including a redesigned onboarding process, renewed Send form with SEP-0029 support, full Deposit/Withdraw functionality via SEP-0024, improved trading interface, desktop builds, hardware wallet support, and a new Help Center.
Samsung Galaxy smartphones now support Stellar blockchain through integration with Samsung Blockchain Keystore, enabling users to store Stellar private keys and developers to build blockchain apps for Galaxy devices.
Stellar has been integrated into Samsung Blockchain Keystore, becoming the fifth cryptocurrency supported alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, and Klaytn. Samsung Galaxy users can now securely store private keys and sign transactions on Stellar dapps.
Ledger Wallet offers a secure way to buy over 80 cryptocurrencies, including Stellar, directly into users' non-custodial hardware wallets using fiat or crypto. It aggregates providers like Moonpay and Ramp for competitive pricing and ensures self-custody from the start. The feature emphasizes ease-of-use, clear transaction signing, and hardware-level security to prevent common risks associated with centralized exchanges.