@stellardevpool Not sure if we are on the same page.

I wanted to highlight, that for your pool to receive first inflation payout and to start paying other projects, your inflation destination should first receive about 53M lumens of votes. Until that happens, you will not receive anything from inflation and hence won't be able to distribute anything to the projects.

You haven't mentioned how you plan to achieve the threshold in your proposal - it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

For sure, if you plan to go the full path from 0 to 53,000,000 XLM - you'll need a really strong community support and coordination.

Alternatively, you might want to consider the option of getting access to our pool (as proposed above) and getting your share of payouts right from the start, without worrying of reaching the threshold.

Let us know here or in keybase if you're interested.

12 days later

Today we’ve finalised our major update for mobile LOBSTR apps - new Send Flow.
You should receive your new app versions in a few days (v.4.1.0).

Let’s start with a simple question: “how do we send our lumens to each other?”.
Today we share public or federated addresses or scan QR codes. That’s standard of course, but to achieve the idea of “Sending money like email” we could use something more convenient and simple to transfer money daily.

The easiest way to contact anyone today is to use messengers, emails or phone calls. Keybase and Stellar did a great job to make our life easier - integrated Stellar into messenger.
LOBSTR team decided to focus on other options and added ability to send lumens to email address or to any phone number!

That gives users two great benefits:

  1. You can send crypto to people who never had any Stellar wallet at all. That might be the easiest way for them to jump into Stellar and crypto.
  2. You don’t need to ask the recipient's address anymore, just select a contact from your address book and send your lumens, that’s it. LOBSTR will care about other things 😉

After sending assets to email address or phone number recipient will receive an email/sms with the information of how to claim his crypto. Basically, he just needs to create an account in LOBSTR with associated email address or phone number.
If the recipient already has LOBSTR account - he will be able to claim money from the wallet home page in one click.

New Send functionality is available on the web app already, you can try it right now.
More updates coming soon, stay tuned, friends!

LOBSTR New Send Flow

We have recently launched 3 new full validators for Stellar network.

Now LOBSTR runs a total of 5 full validators meaning that LOBSTR is the organization with the most full validator nodes on the Stellar network.

These nodes are spread between multiple hosting providers and different continents (2 in Europe, 1 in Asia, 1 in Australia and 1 in US).

This allow us to get increased levels of fault tolerance, so entities including LOBSTR in their quorum set, can get additional confidence of our uptime, as even 2 nodes going down will not affect the liveness of LOBSTR sub-quorum (in a 3 out of 5 quorum set).

You can find all the details on our nodes on stellarbeat.io (search for LOBSTR).

    gleb LOBSTR is the organization with the most validator nodes on the Stellar network.

    IBM is running nine.

    Apart from that, good work!

    • gleb replied to this.

        dzham Yeah, I was going to say to "most full validator" nodes, as 6 of IBM nodes are not full validators at the moment.

        But thanks for pointing that out, I've now edited the comment above.

          5 days later

          New update of LOBSTR mobile apps -introducing price alerts!

          Your LOBSTR app can now send you price alerts for any Stellar based asset that you own.
          It’s easy: choose asset, create alert and get a notification once the price breaks the threshold you selected.

          Check out the video below:
          https://youtu.be/nChImjDm4wg

          iOS v. 4.1.0 released as well! Should be available in a few hours.

          • New Send Flow
          • Updated contacts section
          • Multiple settings updates
          • UI improvements of Home and Trade sections

          Thanks.
          We ain't stopping, next big things in the pipeline are:

          • deposit/withdraw for many anchors on Stellar network (SEP-6)
          • delegated transaction signing through web+stellar links (SEP-7)

          I love this wallet. Amazing interface on Android and the web (haven't seen it on iOS personally), the ability to accept/trade custom assets, federated address and yet you can still get your private key. Except for Papayabot (which runs on Telegram and therefore has a built in communications system, tipping, etc.) this is the best mobile wallet for Stellar assets IMO. (Also IMO, the turquoise-ish color looks like dolphin vomit.)

            Brandon Thanks for your kind feedback. We're happy to hear you're enjoying LOBSTR.
            Did you had chance to try our new features? (New Send Flow and Price alerts for assets)
            Tell us what you think.

            Also, "turquoise-ish color looks like dolphin vomit" - that's the funniest review of our color scheme. We'll pass it to our designers 🤣 🤣 🤣

              I meant it in jest of course but honestly, I think a darker hue would be much better looking.

              There are blue lobsters, but they are not that color: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blue+lobster&t=ffsb&atb=v68-1&ia=images&iax=images

              So let's do the Pepsi Challenge on this. The one on the left or the one on the right? (see link - not sure why my markdown isn't working on this screenshot)

              https://www.dropbox.com/s/vf8xs5iv3j3rtjy/LobsrtInterfaceError.jpg

              BTW the total account balance in this screenshot is incorrect. I do not have $1.8M. This error showed up a few days ago, which is why I took this screenshot. I thought it was funny and I was going to send something to support but it has since been corrected and now reflects the correct balance.

              PS: Anyone know why this markdown isn't working??? exact same code was used for photo of blue lobster above but when I paste in this URL it doesn't work. Also tried ImgBB and Photobox, nothing worked.
              ![](https://www.dropbox.com/s/vf8xs5iv3j3rtjy/LobsrtInterfaceError.jpg "")

              Markdown used for blue lobster image above: ![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/16/article-2062179-0ED1ECB800000578-793_634x391.jpg "")

              BTW the total account balance in this screenshot is incorrect. I do not have $1.8M. This error showed up a few days ago, which is why I took this screenshot. I thought it was funny and I was going to send something to support but it has since been corrected and now reflects the correct balance.

              Yeah, we've refactored some of the logic which calculates fiat balances recently, and a bug sneaked in 4.2.1, affecting some of our users.
              We rolled out a fix few days later with 4.2.2 but many people have noticed and kept our support busy 🙂

              Here's your mockup embedded (I re-uploaded the image to imgur.com):

              The blue version looks interesting, I agree.
              Let's see if anyone will jump in and tell us which they prefer 🙂

              But to defend our color choice. The "turquoise" is rather unique, it stands out from the blue which is used by many apps. And lobsters sometimes choose really interesting colors.

              PS: your markdown did not work since Dropbox returns the whole HTML page instead of image file, even if the URL ends with .jpg, which can be rather annoying.

              I prefer the teal because it looks more like the actual color of the ocean to me than the navy; however it is a lot easier to read the navy in low-light conditions because of the enhanced contrast with the lighter text, at least on my monitor and phones in the examples above.

              Regarding the original post, I'm very excited about LOBSTR's development particularly the continuing rollout of multi-asset anchors.

                fscosta1390 Thank you!

                DrewPalmer like your thoughts about the app color. The interesting thing here is that different phones, screens display our color scheme in their own way 😄
                So LOBSTR looks a bit different for let's say Samsung and Huawei phones owners.
                The same for Apple devices - iPhone XS will be different to iPhone XR (AMOLED VS IPS)

                And yes, anchors will be released soon. Stay tuned!

                    I would also like to share the preview of the upcoming tethered assets deposit and withdrawal functionality that will be available on mobile and web in LOBSTR.

                    This is implemented according to SEP-0006, and will allow users to interact with anchors (BTC, ETH, USD, EUR, etc) and exchange assets on Stellar to underlying assets without leaving the wallet.

                    10 days later