Weekly Wrap-Up with JoeShon

Stellar discussions by the Public Node community

JoeShon "Joe" Monroe from A Stellar World Podcast brings Public Node's Weekly Wrap-Up of Stellar-related news.

On Sunday Cointelegraph included Stellar Lumens in their top 5 currencies of the week. It also included BTC, DOT, LINK, and THETA.

On Tuesday Yahoo Finance reported that “Lightnet Expands Payout Services Across Southeast Asia Through Collaboration With MoneyGram”. It goes on to say that “Lightnet…launched a collaboration with MoneyGram International, a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers.”

On Monday Denelle Dixon, the CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, provided a report on how businesses are already using USDC and what this means for use cases on Stellar via Stellar Org’s Twitter account.

Grayscale Trust reported their Net Assets Under Management, Holdings per Share, and Market Price per Share for their Investment Products on February 8th.

Grayscale reports they have $22.5 million dollars in Stellar Lumens under management. With a 12.53 percent increase over a 24 hour period.

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Links:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/top-5-cryptocurrencies-to-watch-this-week-btc-dot-link-xlm-theta

Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, DOT, LINK, XLM, THETA (cointelegraph.com)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lightnet-expands-payout-services-across-030000996.html

Lightnet Expands Payout Services Across Southeast Asia Through Collaboration With MoneyGram (yahoo.com)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjessel/2020/01/15/lightnet-targets-moving-50bn-annually-in-international-payments-on-the-stellar-blockchain-network/?sh=6347ce5c2e36

Lightnet Targets Moving $50 Billion Of International Payments, Annually, On The Stellar Blockchain Network By 2022 (forbes.com)

https://twitter.com/StellarOrg/status/1358908280119132161?s=20

https://stellar.org/usdc

USDC (stellar.org)

https://twitter.com/Grayscale/status/1358894200910188545?s=20

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