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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Friendly, Feeless, Seamless NFT and Collectibles Marketplace on Stellar
As we are celebrating 46,000 players on Litemint.io and 600 members on Discord, we are also announcing the upcoming launch of our friendly, feeless and seamless NFT and collectibles marketplace—an experience that will be enjoyable directly on litemint.com! The service is expected to go live during Q1 2021 and we encourage you to join our…
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…