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…

Tradable, Breedable, Non-Fungible Tokens Now Available on Stellar with Litemint

To read more about our upcoming NFT marketplace, follow this link. 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…