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 .
Interested in comparing designs on this. Our implementation of something "like" this is open source and live on future net now to experiment with: thruput.network/
Introducing Voyager: hyperscale payments for agentic commerce.
Benchmarked at 21M TPS, Voyager is a new blockchain architecture for an internet where millions of agents pay for content, data, and services on demand.
blog.celestia.org/introducin…
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📰 @StellarOrg is exploring a major revamp of $XLM tokenomics.
Announced at #Meridian2026, the proposed shift aims to tie the token directly to network utility, including fee-funded rewards.
What’s your take on the potential change?
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Developing, deploying and maintaining our native infrastructure on @StellarOrg has been of the best non-EVM experiences we have had so far.
There is a reason why we are seeing more and more complex smart contract infrastructures following our steps.
Now live: @CurveFinance.
"Having one of DeFi’s most trusted liquidity protocols choose [Stellar] for its first native deployment outside EVM shows that the network is the home for practical financial applications." -@DenelleDixon
#Meridian2026
stellar.org/press/curve-brin…
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In #Meridian2026? join my tokenomics braindate tomorrow. If it's full just show up - better ask forgiveness than permission.
This is awesome
500 builders showed up for #hackmeridian2026 with 27 hours of hacking and no public list of what got built.
So i @BuildOnStellar HackProof.
Every contract, every deploy, every repo, hour by hour. and a chat where you can ask anything about the data, like what others built in your category or what broke the most teams.
hackproof-six.vercel.app
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I'm super proud to unveil and open-source Project Thruput. Our mission is to eliminate all practical blockchain scaling limits to make smart contract execution free. thruput.network/ #Blockchain #smartcontracts #Stellar
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📣 The Defiant Exclusive
Stellar @StellarOrg just released Project Thruput, a separate network that runs every transaction in a block out of order, and charges no per-transaction fee.
7.M (up from 1.18M) payments per second, by adding seven machines to one validator.
Read more here:
thedefiant.io/news/blockchai…
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The future financial system looks like 10 billion people and billions of agents transacting on their behalf.
It can’t run on rationed compute.
Enter Stellar Project Thruput: a tech preview of blockchain compute, unrationed.
#Meridian2026
stellar.org/blog/foundation-…
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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 👇
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