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Shipping the Wallet-First NFT Marketplace

We just shipped a major wallet-first redesign of the Litemint NFT Marketplace. This post covers what changed, why, and a bit of the tech under the hood.

Wallet-First

I was never fully satisfied with the accounts model on the Litemint marketplace. We built it for onboarding convenience (Google, Facebook, email…) but it always felt like a web2 compromise. So we rebuilt it.

January 20, 2026

Anatomy of a Stellar-powered Auction on Litemint

This post breaks down the mechanics behind Litemint’s decentralized NFT auctions on Stellar.

We have just 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.

Litemint Auction UI

Live auction on Litemint

Litemint auctions are fully decentralized, require no escrow, with full settlement on the Stellar DEX. Let’s uncover the tools and dissect how it works.

September 19, 2022

NFT on Stellar – Solution to Pricing Limitations on the SDEX

This post explains the Stellar DEX pricing limitation for indivisible tokens and the solution we use on the Litemint 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 stroop of an asset to ensure that it is indivisible (e.g. as part of the requirements for NFTs).

Stellar DEX Price Limit

However, such small amounts may cause issues on the Stellar DEX because Stellar Core internally uses INT32 (see Stellar-ledger-entries.x) for the fractional representation of prices and the INT32 type can only store values between -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 (inclusive).