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…

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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,…