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 financial transactions cheaper, faster, and more transparent with USDC.The eight winners of the Stellar Community Seed Fund were announced this week....

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 that highlighted her two years with Stellar. In the blog she says, "As I reflect on the last two years, I see a common thread of ...

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 to bring greater transparency of nonprofit activities to donors. Steve provides two examples of how smart contracts can be utiliz...

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news.The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) provided updates on its response to Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) draft guidance.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 the finalists and their accomplishments, motivations, and future plans. The first two showcase projects are Litemint, OptionBlox,...

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 was also a notable achievement. The Stellar Core Protocol 16 upgrade was also implemented this week. This upgrade fixed the...

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 endpoints to interact with the ledger. See Decentralized to the Core and Bitfinex Pauses XLM Withdrawals. Following t...

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 (SDF) provided an important update to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on “Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets”. Specifically, FinCEN extended the initial comment period which allowed the SDF, and other blockchai...

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 one bank has another bank's money on deposit. The article further points out that there are more than $500 billion is transferred cross-...

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, a businesses using stellar to build the future of international payments. He discusses his experience networking with Lightnet and others tha...

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 largest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) announced that they have partnered with Lightnet, a fintech company that uses the Stellar blockchain,...