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The concept of Stellar trustlines is ambiguous—even more so in the crypto world where it represents a paradox (hence the chosen title and quote). This article is a brief attempt, both practical and conceptual, to shed some lights on this puzzling topic. The Virtuous Circle of Trust The way to make people trust-worthy is to…
Below is a screen of my mailbox as I woke up the morning after Godenot, Youtuber with several million subs, published a Let’s Play video of my latest game. Two years back, I published a beta version of pie.ai, hoping to get early feedback. Unaware that I would need to spend several nights scaling up…
We are now 3 months into the launch of the Litemint apps platform with 5 pilot games, so I wanted to kick-off our first newsletter installment by sharing some exciting numbers! Litemint has seen over 600% growth during the last quarter and 36,000 unique users have flocked to Litemint across all platforms to either enjoy…
Let’s have fun! Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are unique and non-interchangeable crypto assets. They can be used to represent rare and exclusive collectibles—a powerful concept for new digital markets and now available on Stellar and live in Litemint! While such tokens have been standardized with ERC721 and proficiently used on the Ethereum blockchain (e.g. CryptoKitties), their…
We should design our blockchain tools to enlarge the top of our publishing funnel, not to reduce it. The Adoption Challenge Until 1965, French women needed their husband’s authorization to open a bank account. This was also true in many other countries. It took a long time but today, French citizens all wonder how such…
With 17,000 mobile installs and 3 pilot games fostering its initial community and showcasing its features, Litemint, a non-custodial, open-source Stellar Wallet, is getting ready to launch its app and game platform powered by decentralized payments and collectible trades. In this case study, I explain how Litemint leveraged the Stellar Network to jump-start a full-featured,…
Hi everyone! Exciting news—a new game is coming to the platform and besides being eponymous, this one is major! LITEMINT.IO is a unique massively multiplayer collectible card game, another in-house production, for distribution on the Litemint apps platform, web and mobile stores. And yes, that means tons of items, goodies and legendary artifacts to earn—all…
Some interesting questions and points were developed in this reddit post about Litemint IAPs so I decided to gather them in this quick blog post. Litemint 1.3.0 has now been released with its instant games platform, decentralized, cross-currency in-app purchases and 2 games. Main features in this release: Decentralized In-app Purchases Through Path Payments Developers publishing…
IO Games are some of the most competitive games ever. With easy-to-learn mechanics and fast onboarding, they allow players to instantly compete online against thousands of other players. These games also offer amazing opportunities for collectibles (skins and other goodies) as well as in-game economy. All these make them a perfect fit on the Litemint…
Litemint Slice is based on Jelly Slice game, for which I won the honorable mention prize at the Tizen App Challenge competition in 2014 by Linux Foundation and Samsung. The game has a simple “slicing” mechanic yet it requires great skills to master and, I made this exclusive Litemint version even harder! Litemint Slice is…