Six banks have signed up to issue stablecoins through World Wire, an IBM network built on the Stellar blockchain.
Stellar Foundation Hires Mozilla Exec as Its New CEO
The Stellar Foundation has hired former Mozilla exec Denelle Dixon to be its new CEO as founder Jed McCaleb moves to a tech role.
Coinsquare Acquires Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange StellarX
Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has acquired decentralized exchange StellarX and will seek to license it in Bermuda.
SatoshiPay Integrates Blockchain Payments for Major European Publisher
Micropayments startup SatoshiPay has partnered with Europe’s largest digital publisher to integrate blockchain payments for content.
McCaleb’s Quiet Comeback: Breakups, Breakdowns and Stellar’s Big Break-Out
CoinDesk profiles Jed McCaleb, the early cryptocurrency evangelist who created Stellar, now the world’s sixth-largest coin by market cap.
Stellar Gets Another Boost With TokenSoft ICO Services Expansion
In the latest good news for the crypto project, TokenSoft says it is launching support for token sales built on the Stellar network.
Interstellar Arrives: Visa, Citi-Backed Chain Acquired By Stellar Startup
An acquisition that finds two of crypto’s leading entrepreneurs teaming to back the world’s sixth-largest blockchain has been confirmed.
IBM Debuts Stellar-Powered ‘Blockchain World Wire’ Payments System
IBM is taking its long-in-the-works blockchain-based payment system out of beta, with the launch of a product called Blockchain World Wire.
IBM Is Helping Launch a Price-Stable Cryptocurrency Insured By the FDIC
The latest attempt to create a crypto pegged to the U.S. dollar, or stablecoin, combines 21st-century technology with an invention from the 1930s.
A Chain of Its Own: Mobile App Kik to Fork Stellar for Fee-Free Blockchain
Kik has decided that fees just won’t work for its crypto token mission and has decided to fork stellar to create its own blockchain.
Meetup’s Crypto Secret? Blockchain Scams Are Running Rampant
Long-running groups using the popular social network are finding that separating education from financial advice isn’t as easy as it sounds.
IBM Evolution: Big Blue Is Finally Getting Serious About Cryptocurrency
IBM is breaking from enterprise blockchain norms by publicly working with cryptocurrencies in a wide range of projects.
Ethereum and Stellar? Kik’s Kin Token to Use Two Chains
While Kik said it would move its “kin” crypto tokens off ethereum and onto stellar, today it announced it was allowing the tokens to live on both.
Stellar Goes In On Lightning with 2018 Launch Target
Stellar isn’t so far behind bitcoin in absorbing a faster and cheaper layer touted as the future of cryptocurrency payments.
Stellar Investment Could Make Crypto as Easy as Chat
Stellar makes a bet that Keybase can port easy end-to-end encryption over to person-to-person payments in cryptocurrency.