Stellar
The Stellar platform is a decentralized protocol that was primarily designed for enabling fast, low-cost, cross-border payments. It is an open source project developed and maintained by the Stellar Foundation. The platform was conceived by Jed McCaleb, who is also the co-founder of Ripple.
Stellar implements transaction-level consensus using FBA, the modified version of PBFT, mentioned earlier. Its native asset is called the lumen (XLM). Owing to its focus on payments, the Stellar platform provides additional modules that work in conjunction with the core software to enable users to build customer-friendly apps that meet compliance and regulatory norms for payments.
Stellar's most interesting feature is probably that it implements ...
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