The ambition of Cosmic.vote is to bring decentralized organizations to Stellar. No wonder that Majority Judgment has been chosen for its first contract: when it comes to decentralized governance, having a well-designed, robust voting system is an absolute game-changer. Let’s see why Majority Judgement is superior in this matter. Origin Majority…

Two years ago, I introduced Cosmic.link to the Stellar community and last year, I summed up the progress made so far. I went briefly over the concept of Cosmic.link and delegated signing, and announced the first app to use this technology on Stellar. …

What makes CosmicLink different from most Stellar-related services is that it is an open solution. In other words, instead of jailing users for growth & profit, it gives the keys to everyone. Let’s dig together into one of the greatest feature of such an open system: forks. Why? CosmicLinks offers applications…

20 years ago, people made their first steps with email and online payments. Many of them learned the hard way. For scammers, it was an age of abundance. Things improved thanks to two keys: education and better software design. Today, that’s exactly what crypto needs and, users are fortunate, the…

Equilibre.io 0.10.0 came with a way to compute the full historical value of any Stellar account, in fiats. After entering using the account public key, it is under “Portfolio” => “History”. In this article, I’ll use this data to analyze the performance of an account that I rebalanced using Equilibre.io’s…

This is the 1-year birthday of Cosmic.Link & Stellar Authenticator! For this event, I invite you to discover the first wallet-independent software for Stellar − which is the goal I’m aiming at since I joined the Stellar developer community. Equilibre.io is a portfolio balancer: it let you define how you…

Exactly one year ago, I wrote an article called “A Standardized Way Of Handling Stellar Transactions”. It was the synthesis of several ideas floating around in the community & described a secure way for independent applications to interact with Stellar wallets. …

Originally published the 22 January 2018 on Steemit, this article led to the creation of Stellar Authenticator and Cosmic Links. I’m trying here to wrap up my thought about the issues discussed here: https://galactictalk.org/d/803-idea-default-link-protocol-handler-in-stellar-applications And there: https://galactictalk.org/d/806-about-web-wallet-and-security Although I’m quite affirmative in this paper, I invite you to read it…

In this article I’ll explain the motivation behind the creation of cosmic links and how it can improve the Stellar ecosystem as a whole. I’ll then cover the minimal requirements to support them. I’ll describe how we could implement a login interface to complete this scheme. …