Cyber Brawl, the sequel and rebranding of Litemint.io, is almost here, and it’s loaded with awesome new content and features that take the existing experience to a new level! Here’s a sneak peek at what’s on the horizon: Seamless Transition for Existing Players Since 2021, more than 155,000 player accounts have been created on Litemint.io,…
Royalties with Soroban Smart Contracts: An Interoperable On-Chain Solution
Returning for the second article in our series, this time we are tackling royalties and on-chain payment enforcements. Royalties play a pivotal role in digital economies, yet the web3 industry still faces many challenges in implementing decentralized royalty payments. Two key issues stand out: Centralized control: Echoing Web2, NFT marketplaces maintain significant control over royalty…
Oracles with Soroban Smart Contracts: A Practical and Flexible On-Chain Framework
The latest release of soroban-kit 0.1.8 is now available, and it brings a set of tools designed to streamline both synchronous and asynchronous cross-contract communication, particularly for building more robust oracle systems with soroban—exciting topic! In this article, I’m going to walk you through the new soroban-kit::oracle module step-by-step. You will learn how to build a flexible and extensible oracle…
Resources to Build Your Next Web3 Project with Stellar x Soroban
Below is a compilation of Soroban projects and resources I’ve created over the last few months. You will find links to the source code for Litemint smart contracts, Web3 tutorials, instructional videos, and the soroban-kit library. You’re welcome to share and use these resources freely to build your next Web3 projects! Why Stellar x Soroban…
Building Bridges For NFTs
Exciting times! As I write this blog article, we are rolling out a major update (1.0.11) for the Litemint NFT marketplace. With this release (demo below), we introduce another first to NFTs on Stellar as we built an ERC-721 compliant, non-custodial and decentralized bridge to Ethereum allowing creators and collectors to use their NFTs, securely,…
What We Learned at NFT.NYC 2022 – Litemint
We are extremely proud to have been part of NFT.NYC 2022 as official speaker and sponsor. Our participation to this major industry event was a huge accomplishment, a step forward for the NFT industry and an incredible human experience for all of us! All week meeting hundreds of creators, personalities, influencers and people from all…
Unlockable and Token Gated Content on Litemint
Unlockable and token gated content have landed on Litemint! This powerful feature provides a way for creators to supercharge their NFTs and digital experiences with extra content such as hi-res images, rewards, bonus material, private instructions to redeem physical items, tickets and just about anything. While unlockable content enables a new layer for creativity, there…
Anatomy of a Stellar-powered Auction on Litemint
We have just recently released the Auctions feature on Litemint! NFT owners on Litemint can now run live, time limited auctions with reserve price to further engage with their potential buyers. Collections also accept a dynamic filter for your auctions, show them off! It is important to mention that Litemint auctions are fully decentralized, require…
NFT on Stellar – Solution to Pricing Limitations on the SDEX
This post summarizes the issue previously discussed on Keybase #dev-discussion team and explains in details the solution we use for the upcoming NFT marketplace. Issuing Indivisible Tokens on Stellar The smallest amount for an asset issued on Stellar is called a stroop and is equal to one ten-millionth or 0.0000001. Therefore, we can issue 1…
Sam Sealey joins LITEMINT LLC as Strategic Advisor
Founder of Stellar Global, Lead for digital assets at The Digital Economist and real estate entrepreneur brings 10+ years of experience to accelerate Litemint LLC mission and growth. LEWES, Delaware — March 30, 2022 — Litemint LLC is thrilled to welcome Sam Sealey as Strategic Advisor to accelerate its mission, develop its vision and expand…
NFT Ownership During The Apocalypse
All You Need Is Basic Math. Introduction I recently shared minting guidelines (Best Practices for Creating NFTs on Stellar) to help artists and issuers future-proofing NFT ownership by using decentralized storage for the art and by creating a circular reference to the asset on the blockchain (i.e. Stellar in our case) using a meta data…