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The Stellar Development Foundation spotlights eight female technical leaders on their teams, sharing career advice, paths into blockchain, and perspectives on representation in tech and the blockchain industry.
The article details a 'Stellar Staking Marathon' email-phishing scam targeting Stellar (XLM) users, linked to the 2020 Ledger.com database breach that exposed over 1 million emails and personal data of 270,000 individuals. Stellarscam.report connects this to memo-phishing bots on the Stellar Network, noting pattern changes coinciding with the breach. Users are urged to check haveibeenpwned.com and report scams.
The article recounts the origin of Stellarscam.report, created to combat 'memo-phishing' scams on the Stellar Network where scammers send malicious memos with tiny XLM amounts to trick users into revealing secret keys. The author, frustrated by repeated scam reports on r/Stellar, developed a bot in mid-May 2020 to automatically send warning transactions to victims. Monthly stats show the bot countered tens of thousands of scam transactions, highlighting ongoing community efforts against persistent fraud.
The Stellar Community Fund manager shares six strategies for winning SCF grants: serve your audience, pick the right fund tier, exceed guidelines, engage the community, emphasize marketing, and keep iterating. Success requires balancing technical quality with presentation and community involvement.
The Stellar Development Foundation explains Issuer-Enforced Finality, a key feature enabling stablecoin issuers to maintain authoritative control over asset ownership on a permissionless network, contrasting Stellar's approach with Ethereum's vulnerability to double-spend attacks.
The Stellar Development Foundation reflects on why open source is the right model for building networks, highlighting documentation, transparency, collaboration, and diversity as key pillars that enable Stellar to thrive across borders and time zones.
Stellar Development Foundation revamped Stellar.org with a new project directory, updated SDF mandate detailing treasury deployment, and lumen supply metrics documentation to improve ecosystem transparency and support for builders.
The Stellar Winter Roundup 2019 recaps key achievements and events from December through October, including ecosystem expansion, the Meridian conference, lumen distribution updates, and new partnerships. Highlights feature SDF's new mandate, Horizon and Core releases, Stellar Community Fund voting, and integrations like Travala.com and BitGo support for XLM. It also announces new hires and job opportunities at SDF.
Stellar has been running its own Lightning Torch since June 2019, a community experiment that passes XLM around the world to demonstrate the blockchain's base-layer transaction efficiency. The torch, initiated by Wouter Arkink, has covered nearly 500,000 kilometers with zero transaction fees and introduced challenges like claiming countries and recruiting famous participants.
The Stellar Development Foundation explains the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) through a detailed walkthrough of how distributed consensus works. The article covers quorums, federated voting, nomination and ballot protocols, and provides a concrete example of how nodes reach agreement on transaction sets.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced Stellar Meridian, its first sponsored conference, taking place November 4-5, 2019 in Mexico City. The event will bring together developers, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem projects to discuss financial inclusion, regulation, and Stellar's role in the future of finance.
Stellar launched as Coinbase Earn's largest partner, committing 1 billion XLM to reward users for educational videos about the platform. Users can earn up to $50 in XLM by completing lessons and referring friends.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced three major community initiatives: Stellar Clusters for local grassroots meetups, a first global Stellar conference, and the Stellar Community Fund to let the community guide lumen distribution. The post also highlighted Reddit governance experiments and a Community Champions program.
Stellar celebrated its first anniversary, growing from two cofounders to a 16-person team while launching the Stellar Consensus Protocol, building global partnerships, and establishing a thriving developer community across multiple continents.
The Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) introduces federated Byzantine agreement, a consensus mechanism that achieves decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security simultaneously. SCP enables a worldwide financial network where participants reach agreement without relying on centralized institutions.
