- ICOs
- Smart-contracts
- IBM running the world-wide network nodes and shilling
Stellar (dashboard.stellar.org
- Stellar consensus protocol: 1000s tx / second (global scale)
- Inflation distributed weekly to those who own XLM
Recent News:
- IBM Blockchain VP on XLM: medium.com
with-the-head-of-ibm-blockchain-jesse-lund-64b8fe13ceba
Upcoming Events:
- Tokenize Assets on Stellar, SF Meatup - 10 April w/ Boris
Reznikov
- IBM Q1 Earnings - 17 April
- BayPay Forum - 19 April w/ Jed McCaleb
- Global Money Transfer, Dubai - 29/30 April
Recent Partnership:
- Keybase.io
- Blockdaemon.com (Blockdaemon claims Stellar will be *THE*
Ethereum of 2018; Blockdaemon backed by Comcast)
Big Things to Watch For:
-Jed claims "interesting" announcement soon; likely IBM's
plans with central banks + tokenization of central bank fiat
- Official IBM news on their Hyper/Stellar Ledger plans
- Stripe BTC replacement announcement circa April
- FairX Beta - April/May
- Lightyear.io major announcement late March/April
Overarching Goal of XLM (and why it could be worth a ton):
- XLM is Asset-to-Asset Bridge
The list below will be fully operational by year end, ask
yourself the price of XLM by then:
>FairX(Foreign Exchange Company)
>FX across Asia
pymnts.com
border-payments-international-global-fintech/
>Central banks onboard
"How far away do you think we are before we see central bank
issued tokens on Stellar (or another platform)?
VERY VERY CLOSE"
>Other assets trading on stellar (talks of reaching 1000 this
year)
(stellarterm.com
>Pure Stellar ICOs
reddit.com
participating_on_stellar_lumens/