👨🚀 A curated list of Stellar applications, blog posts, educational resources, tools, and more.

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Awesome Stellar is a curated list of Stellar applications, blog posts, educational resources, tools, and more.
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👨🚀 Contents
- Official Channels
- Community
- General Overview ⭐
- Blogs and Beginner Guides
- Case Studies and Insights
- Network Statistics
- Developer Resources
- Developer Educational Resources
- Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
- Projects Building on Stellar
- Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors)
- Store Your Stellar Assets
- Use the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
- Videos, Podcasts, and AMAs
Official Channels
- Stellar Website
- Github
- Keybase
- SDF Blog
- Stellar Community Blog
- Stellar Developers Blog
- YouTube
- Stellar Podast YouTube
Community
- The Stellar Podcast - A weekly podcast that discusses the news, applications, and developers building the future of finance on Stellar.
- Stellar discussions by Public Node - Public Node community members discussing all aspects of the Stellar ecosystem - from brainstorming to developer interviews and everything in between.
- Galactic Talk - A community of Stellar users, developers and traders.
- Stellar Community Fund - An exciting way for developers to flex their creative muscles and introduce new applications and use cases to the Stellar ecosystem, voted on by the community.
- Stellar Keybase Team - A Keybase team to discuss all things Stellar.
- Stellar Global Keybase Team - A community run Keybase team to discuss all things Stellar.
- Reddit - Stellar Subreddit with 100,000+ members.
- Stellar StackExchange - Developer focused community and a place to ask dev related questions.
General Overview
If you're new to Stellar start here 👇
- Quick Summaries
- Intro to Stellar Assets & Anchors
- Intro to the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
- Intro to the Stellar Consensus Protocol
Blogs and Beginner Guides
Case Studies and Insights
Network Statistics
- Stellar Dashboard - Monitors network status, ledger close times, fee stats, lumen distribution and more.
- Stellar Status Updates - Get status updates on the Stellar network, Horizon, the test network, and more.
- StellarExpert - Block explorer and analytics platform for the Stellar network.
- Lumenscan - Block explorer and analytics platform for the Stellar network.
- Stellarbeat - Information about nodes and validators on the network - includes a quorum monitor.
- Galactic Vision - A 3D network and quorum explorer.
Developer Resources
- Stellar Dev Digest - Weekly newsletter covering all things around the Stellar developer ecosystem.
- Stellar Core - stellar-core is the backbone of the Stellar network. It maintains a local copy of the ledger, communicating and staying in sync with other instances of stellar-core on the network.
- Astrocore - Astrocore aims to become an alternative implementation of the stellar-core, the core component of the Stellar network.
- Stellar Protocol - Developer discussion about possible changes to the protocol.
- Stellar Docs - Stellar documentation.
- Stellar Laboratory - The Stellar Laboratory is a set of tools that enables people to try out and learn about the Stellar network.
- Stellar SDKs
- Interact with the Stellar Network
Developer Educational Resources
- Developer Guides and Concepts - These guides are designed to help you learn more about the technical aspects of integrating Stellar into your application or service. - How and Why to Complete Your Stellar.toml - How to Connect Your Anchor Service to Stellar Wallets - Creating Custom Assets on Stellar - How Stellar.org Recovers From a Testnet Reset - Get Started Building Stellar Applications: New York Blockchain Week Hackathon - Fee Bump Transactions Explained - A look at transactions on Stellar, the costs involved in submitting them,problems that could arise submitting transactions pre-Protocol 13, and how fee bump transactions solve them. - Stellar Developer Workshop with Tomer Weller - Building your own Venmo with Stellar - This tutorial will show you how to create an anchor maintaining a Stellar account for each customer, hiding the implementation details. It will use the programming language JavaScript and the mobile wallet will be written using React Native. - Explore Stellar Addresses and the Stellar DEX using Python - In this tutorial you'll be creating a script that takes in a Stellar address and returns the XLM balance. You will also convert that XLM balance to USD using the new ticker API for the Stellar DEX. - Stream Ledger Data from the Stellar Network Using Python - Stellar payments — thoughts on federation, QR Codes, URIs, and Point of Sale systems within the Stellar.org ecosystem - Sending Secret and Anonymous Memos with Stellar - Distributed Trustless Workers with Stellar - An in-depth look at how Stellar’s advanced features can be used to create a “smart contract” between a customer and an anonymous and untrusted worker. - I Just Wrote a Stellar Smart Contract & I Just Wrote a Stellar Smart Contract Pt. 2: Let’s Dig a Little Deeper - Exploring Stellar 'smart contracts.' - Hacking Stellar - This online book introduces you to Stellar with lots of practical examples using the command-line client, Lumen. Incomplete but useful nonetheless for understanding basic concepts. - Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol - Useful information regarding SCP.- How to Create a Custom Token on Stellar in Python - StellarTxSignersInspector - Facilitating Multisig Discovery - Engineering Talk Series - Creating Usable Stellar Applications - Intuitive Stellar Consensus Protocol - Kelp GUI - Practical Path Payments - ZkVM: about the motocrab - User-Friendly Key Management with SEP-30 Recoverysigner - Turing Complete Contract proposal for Stellar
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
The Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) provides a way to reach consensus without relying on a closed system to accurately record financial transactions. SCP simultaneously enjoys four key properties: decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security.
- Blog Posts
- Talks by David Mazières
Projects Building on Stellar
- Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors) - Financial institutions issuing assets on the Stellar network.
- Stellar.org Project Directory - Another project directory maintained on Stellar.org
- Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone with a built in Stellar wallet.
- Money Clip - MoneyClip stores Canadian Dollars inside your phone. You can split bills, buy & sell online, and easily pay friends and family using digital cash. It’s quick, secure, and easy to use.
- Nodle - Nodle is the world’s largest ecosystem of connected devices, providing infrastructure, software and access to data for the Internet of Things.
- SatoshiPay - Global, fast and easy micropayment solutions.
- Settle Network - Settle provides programmatic interoperability between traditional and digital assets, by leveraging our financial infrastructure in every country we operate.
- RealtyBits - RealtyBits is the first blockchain based marketplace for buying and selling real estate assets with digital currencies from anywhere in the world.
- Kapilendo - Kapilendo is a banking platform for SMEs and issued its first blockchain-based digital bond on Stellar.
- DealBox - A feature-rich digital securities issuance and investment platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors to enable the future of investing and capital formation.
- Tempo - Tempo is an international money transfer, money and crypto exchange company. It offers online, offline and crypto remittances to nearly 100 countries.
- Wirex - A U.K.-based payments platform and issuer of stablecoins on Stellar.
- COINQVEST - Enterprise Cryptocurrrency Payment Processing on Stellar. Accept digital currencies, settle in USD, EUR, NGN.
- Velo - Velo is a Credit and Reserve Protocol enabling digital credit issuance and borderless asset transfer for businesses using a smart contract reserve system.
- Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.
- Blockdaemon - Spin up and deploy Stellar nodes within minutes.
- Public Node - Stellar nodes funded by the community.
- Rehive - Rehive is a platform and toolkit for building fintech apps on Stellar.
- COINQVEST - COINQVEST helps online merchants and e-commerce shops programmatically accept and settle payments in new digital currencies while staying compliant, keeping their accountants and tax authorities happy.
- Litemint.io - PvP card battles (cards issued as NFTs on Stellar).
- Litemint.com - Built on Stellar, Litemint is a crypto wallet loaded with free instant games. Take on the daily live challenges, earn collectibles and rewards straight in your wallet.
- Tangem - An NFC card wallet that supports Stellar assets.
- Skyhitz - Skyhitz is a beats market for music creators built on Stellar.
Stellar Asset Issuers (Anchors)
- AnchorUSD - Redeemable and stable cryptocurrency anchored 1-for-1 to the US dollar. All deposits are secured in US-domiciled bank accounts.
- Tempo - Tempo's EURT is a stable coin, backed by on hand cash, 1 EURT = 1 EUR.
- Apay (Papaya Anchor) - Papaya anchors multiple crypto assets to the network including BTC, LTC, and ETH.
- Bitbond - Bitbond is the issuer of Germany's first security token and makes business lending globally accessible.
- Cowrie - Cowrie anchors NGNT, an asset backed digital token pegged to the Nigerian Naira.
- Stellarport - Stellarport anchors assets such as BTC, ETH, and LTC.
- MINTX - MINTX supplies GOLD, SVLR, PLAT and PALL tokens priced to the physical metals global spot price +3%.
- Firefly - Firefly is a wallet provider and an issuer of the Chinese Yuan.
Store Your Stellar Assets
- Keybase - Keybase is an encrypted communication app with a built-in Stellar wallet available on most mobile and desktop devices.
- Solar Wallet - Solar Wallet is an easy to-use wallet with multi-signature transactions. Available on most mobile and desktop devices. Allows users to withdraw stablecoins directly to their bank account.
- Lobstr - Lobstr is a custodial wallet with 2FA key recovery. This wallet allows you to store any Stellar-based asset and perform trades on the Stellar decentralized exchange.
- Litemint - Litemint is an open source, non-custodial wallet allowing you to store any Stellar asset and trade on the SDEX. It also offers an app and game ecosystem powered by decentralized cross-currency purchases through Stellar path payments.
- Tangem - An NFC card wallet that supports Stellar assets.
Use the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
- User Interfaces for the DEX
- Trading Bots
Videos, Podcasts, and AMAs
- Videos
- Podcasts
- AMAs
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