currently product @stellarorg, formerly @appdirect.
Oakland, CA
Joined November 2010
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While the rest of crypto is chasing the same 50m users, our ecosystem has built a network with reach to the rest of the world. Sooner or later everyone will realize that distribution is the only durable competitive advantage for a network and that we have a massive lead.
#Stellar $XLM
A lightbulb 💡 moment at Stellar’s Meridian when a representative from Axelar spoke about how Stellar has an Edge on the Defi market because of their remittance business.
Essentially, individuals in the regions that benefit from stellar aid assist and the stellar savings accounts, could be the key ingredient to increasing TVL on the network by an easy “click to earn yield” button, or click for a loan button.
This type of decentralized finance could be built into the application itself, seamless and user-friendly, with educational tutorials on how to engage in defi on stellar network .
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✈️ Meet your mentors!
#HackMeridian26 kicks off Sunday, October 25 at ONE16 in Lisbon. Two days, one city, and the best company you could ask for while you @BuildOnStellar.
These are the people who'll be by your side.
Part 1 of 3 🧵👇
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A milestone for institutional capital markets on Stellar.
@AscendFi and @M1XGlobal completed the network's first institutional repo transaction, using USDM1, a sovereign bond secured by U.S. Treasuries, as collateral.
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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From announcing our mission to help African creators access global payments more easily at last year's Meridian by @stellarorg to taking the stage again this year, we've come a long way 🌍
Our CEO @kjowusu will be speaking at this year's conference in Lisbon and we're looking forward to being part of the conversation.
See you next week 🚀
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Stellar dev docs got a major face lift and a brand new landing page. Check them out and let us know what you think developers.stellar.org/
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Ok now we can release our work with @theahaco on nido.fyi making it the first post quantum wallet on Stellar. Already works on testnet, btw
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MAYBE I WAS WRONG ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
I wrote about how I always used to make fun of the guys who said things like "Bitcoin is speculative, but the underlying blockchain technology is interesting." And now I think maybe they kinda had a point.
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Users can now access tokenized Treasury and AAA CLO exposure using assets they already hold, regardless of which chain they're on.
Through @lifiprotocol, wallets and apps like @jumperapp can route those assets into $deJTRSY and $deJAAA on @StellarOrg in a single step.
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Q3 was another big quarter for @stellarorg: $25.1B in stablecoin volume [+314% YoY) and $4B+ in RWAs (+548% YoY). So, the assets are here, and will continue to grow.
Now, we focus on making them more useful, usable and used. More distribution. More utility. Payments, lending, collateral, repo and beyond.
And more to come next week at Meridian 2026. See you in Lisbon.
A little light reading for the trip to Meridian? The Q3 report is here:
🔥 Stablecoin volume grew 121% QoQ
🔥 RWAs on Stellar reached $4.1 billion
🔥 Monthly active developers hit 3,922
🔥 New Tier 1 validators and 2 protocol upgrades
🔥 99.99% uptime
stellar.org/quarterly-report…
I can't believe Solana and Sui got Samsung to integrate, that is so cool: stellar.org/press/stellar-bl…
Glad to see them shipping reasonable updates. Can we just fast forward to the end state though, drive is version control for files, docs is a viewer / editor for file diffs.
It already is except for random file type incompatibility and layers of UI misdirect
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How many edge cases can your Soroban contract actually handle?
@rv_inc's Komet helps you find out 🌟
Join Runtime Verification for Session #4 of the Stellar Security Office Hours next week:
Calling all Stellar developers ready to raise their security standards 🛠️
Join us next week for a live workshop on Komet, the fuzzing & formal verification framework for Soroban contracts.
Led by the engineers behind it and part of the @BuildOnStellar Security Office Hours 👇
luma.com/br11xe9b
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Take a dip in the trenches
app.zenex.trade
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I hear this narrative a lot. It simply isn't true for @BuildOnStellar. For many other chains it is so I understand it, but the narrative absolutely doesn't hold for Stellar.
Look at the data developerreport.com/ecosyste…
Together we've achieved something rare for a blockchain; product market fit where the product isn't a casino and adoption isn't tied to it's token price.
Yup
But we will only catch people’s attention when it goes 10x 50x 100x
People assume price of token = adoption
Otherwise it’s a 💩 chain
I am a believer and love @StellarOrg
One of the best parts of working on stellar, there is not a better engineering team in crypto.
The partner announcements are impressive, but the performance gains we are shipping to support them are insane.
Great new use cases for the network unlocked by this, especially when you consider the inventory of yield bearing assets available on Stellar.
Spectra is now live on @StellarOrg
→ app.spectra.finance/stellar
Trade PT and YT through an order book from day one. First markets seeded by @GamiLabs, including deJTRSY, the Janus Henderson treasury fund tokenized by @centrifuge.
New use cases for the Stellar community ↓
Feature request: Karen button on AI results.
Use: LLM delivers an objectively embarrassing result - I push this button, it routes to a human who either approves or denies a token refund. No additional context.
Just an implied question, does this meet your quality bar?
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PageBook: a good-enough orderbook for Soroban.
We've long deemed classic orderbooks too inefficient to run as a smart contract. This experiment challenges that assumption. Here's a Testnet XLM/USDC market for your enjoyment, feedback appreciated: tomerweller.com/pagebook/
