Excited about this one! Super easy to onboard people by sending them some 💸. Stay tuned, might be dropping some links to claim today.

I’ve personally been in the @StellarOrg ecosystem long enough to notice a recurring pattern: A lot of people from the Bitcoin/Ethereum world misunderstand Stellar because they think trust in Stellar works like this: “One company decides who is allowed in.” Or: “Validators pick counterparties, so it’s basically just a clearinghouse.” But that’s not how Stellar consensus works. ❌ There is no single list of approved validators. ❌ No central party everyone has to trust. ❌ No one controlling consensus for the whole network. Instead, every node chooses a few other nodes it trusts. Example: • beans app trusts MoneyGram, Circle and Franklin Templeton • MoneyGram trusts beans app, Coinbase and Bitstamp • Circle trusts beans app, Franklin Templeton and Coinbase • Franklin Templeton trusts beans app, Circle and MoneyGram Consensus happens because these trust groups overlap across the network like a web. So you are NOT trusting ONE party. You are trusting that a large number of independent parties around the world will not all coordinate maliciously together. To successfully attack Stellar, you would need a massive part of this overlapping network to collude at the same time. And unlike anonymous validators on many PoS chains, these are often known companies and institutions with: • reputations • customers • regulators • licenses • businesses to protect If 2/3 of major trusted participants openly attacked settlement infrastructure, they would essentially destroy themselves publicly. That is the security model. And honestly, I think this is where many crypto-native people get stuck. Bitcoin and Ethereum people often think: “If you trust identifiable parties, it’s not a real blockchain.” But PoW and PoS also rely on trust: • trust in mining pools • trust in large staking providers • trust in developers • trust in social coordination during forks • trust that incentives keep working That trust is just more indirect. Stellar simply makes the trust assumptions visible instead of hiding them behind economics and game theory. And that’s exactly why institutions may prefer it for real-world value transfer. DTCC choosing Stellar matters because it validates something many people in the ecosystem have understood for years: When trillions of dollars are involved, institutions care more about: ✅ predictable settlement ✅ accountability ✅ known counterparties ✅ fast finality ✅ operational reliability …more than ideological purity around “trustlessness”. People can disagree with that. But the market infrastructure world is increasingly signaling that it does.

Insanely cool to see institutions like @The_DTCC take these bold steps to tokenize DTC issued assets on Stellar. For such a long time I’ve seen the network have too little recognition for how well suited it is for this usecase. The start of something big !

This is why @StellarOrg is so powerful. Pay in NGN while the merchant receives usdc in seconds, all in one transaction without noticing its blockchain!

RT @BeansApp: The Earn Challenge is live. How it works: • Deposit into Beans Earn • Only deposits during the challenge count • Rank = net…

We're now paying you 10% commission to bring friends into Beans #Stellar 🚀

Hot take: the "billion dollar #crypto app" isn't about the tech. It's about caring about UX for regular people. #Stellar made it possible. We actually shipped it 🚀

Stellar was specifically built for #RWA, so not surprising at all that it’s going to win that market.