2B+ lumens will be awarded to projects built on Stellar

[jed]

2 Billion or more lumens to be awarded to people building out the stellar ecosystem.

To encourage creativity and development in the Stellar ecosystem, we’re announcing the Stellar Build Challenge.

Stellar.org will grant awards in the following four categories: Anchors, Applications, Exchanges, and First-Time Submissions. We’ll announce the first round of winners on October 1, 2016.

Build Challenge awards will be funded by unclaimed lumens from the bitcoin-lumen program. This pilot challenge is simple by design: it’s an experiment to find ways to develop services that are fair, affordable, and community-driven, and at the same time drive uptake of the Stellar network to maximize efficiency and reach. We plan to learn from it and offer similar programs in the future.

Read more: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/

Look forward to seeing what people build!

[enet]

what does "Allow fiat deposits/withdrawals via Stellar" mean?

[jed]

Stellar allows you to send and receive any type of currency. So it just means allowing people to deposit and withdrawal via Stellar in addition to whatever other deposit and withdrawal methods the exchange supports.

For example now on Kraken you can send a Sepa payment to deposit Euros. They could also accept Euros sent in via Stellar.

[ifightformerkel]

Is stellar removed from Poloniex?

I looked but i cant find it anymore? When i click on Coinmarketcap on Stellar and then on Poloniex, then it only shows me NXT? 

[jed]

No it is still there. They haven't updated the currency symbol so it says STR instead of XLM.

[enet]

Stellar allows you to send and receive any type of currency. So it just means allowing people to deposit and withdrawal via Stellar in addition to whatever other deposit and withdrawal methods the exchange supports.

For example now on Kraken you can send a Sepa payment to deposit Euros. They could also accept Euros sent in via Stellar.

As an exchange operator I need banking connections to get a fiat backend. I don't know of any bank which supports Ripple/Stellar - only a few banks in the world deal with crypto at all. I guess I'll never understand this concept. To move fiat in the banking network one needs to be a bank.

[jed]

enet: yeah you will need some anchor https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Anchors_trust_and_credit that you use. Once an anchor is on Stellar you can send and receive that anchor's credit without being a bank yourself. There should be a few on the system in the next month.
Which exchange do you run?

[egghead123]

Is stellar removed from Poloniex?

I looked but i cant find it anymore? When i click on Coinmarketcap on Stellar and then on Poloniex, then it only shows me NXT? 

https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_str

https://poloniex.com/exchange#usdt_str

[Nxtblg]

2 Billion or more lumens to be awarded to people building out the stellar ecosystem.

To encourage creativity and development in the Stellar ecosystem, we’re announcing the Stellar Build Challenge.

Stellar.org will grant awards in the following four categories: Anchors, Applications, Exchanges, and First-Time Submissions. We’ll announce the first round of winners on October 1, 2016.

Build Challenge awards will be funded by unclaimed lumens from the bitcoin-lumen program. This pilot challenge is simple by design: it’s an experiment to find ways to develop services that are fair, affordable, and community-driven, and at the same time drive uptake of the Stellar network to maximize efficiency and reach. We plan to learn from it and offer similar programs in the future.

Read more: https://www.stellar.org/blog/build-challenge/

Look forward to seeing what people build!

Thanks for the notice.