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…

Litemint.io is out of Beta | 30,000 players | 700,000 battles | First top-tier competition “LEGENDS” to win our first NFT Game Collectible | Trade cards on Stellar and more

We are officially out of beta! Litemint.io version 1.0 has just been released and it is packed with amazing features including the in-game shop and collectibles on Stellar! Gaming First Before we jump to the core feature of this release, let us start with an overview of the first 4 months of beta. You can…

UPDATE – The New, Refreshed, and Refactored Stellarport is Coming Soon.

The new, refreshed, and refactored Stellarport is coming soon! While we wait, here are the answers to some recurring questions on the Stellarport maintenance. Why is the refactoring effort required? This maintenance period and refactoring effort is needed to allow Stellarport to upgrade for the upcoming Stellar protocol 13. Stellarport is one of the first…