The Stellar protocol is developed by the not-for-profit Stellar Development Foundation, created by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim in 2014. Stellar is intended as an open global platform to connect banks, payment systems, and individuals to reduce cost of payments like global remittance.
The codebase was originally forked from the Ripple codebase. Major changes were made to the consensus protocol described by a whitepaper written by David Mazières.
The Stellar Consensus Protocol does not rely on proof of work, or proof of stake, but rather uses a Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) which is a generalization of the Byzantine agreement problem.
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The Stellar protocol is introduced by cofounder Joyce Kim. The Stellar code is forked from the Ripple protocol, which was a previous project developed by Jed McCaleb.
People
Bartek Nowotarski
Bhagwan Chowdhry
Boris Reznikov
Brian Gale
Dan Kaminsky
David Mazières
Ella Qiang
Greg Brockman
Greg Stein
Jed McCaleb
Jed McCaleb
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Joyce Kim
Keith Rabois
Lisa Nestor
Łukasz Lachowski
Matt Mullenweg
Naval Ravikant
Nicolas Barry
Patrick Collison
Rafał Malinowski
Ronaldo Lemos
Sam Altman
Scott Fleckenstein
Shivani Siroya
Tunde Ladipo
Further reading
All you need to know about Stellar Lumens – Crypto of the Week
Ankit Garg
Jed McCaleb Talks Stellar's New Protocol for Consensus
Stan Higgins
Mt. Gox and Ripple Founder Jed McCaleb Unveils Project 'Stellar'
Stan Higgins
Mt. Gox and Ripple Founder Jed McCaleb Unveils Project 'Stellar'
Stan Higgins
New Digital Currency Aims To Unite Every Money System On Earth
Cade Metz and Marcus Wohlsen
Stripe takes on bitcoin with rival digital currency Stellar
Cantillon
The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A federated model for Internet-level consensus
David Mazières
The Stellar Consensus Protocol:A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus
David Mazieres
What you need to know about Stellar, the new open-source solution to international currency exchange
Roberto Baldwin
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
David Mazières: "The Stellar Consensus Protocol" | Talks at Google
Jun 14, 2016
Demystifying the Stellar Blockchain | Hashing It Out | Podcast Episode #58
August 29, 2019
EB128 – Jed Mccaleb: Stellar And The Vision Of An Open Financial System
Apr 26, 2016
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