Project title: LOBSTR wallet - https://lobstr.co Summary: LOBSTR - simple and secure Stellar wallet available on the web, Android and iOS. Goals: Withdraw/deposit tethered Stellar assets for all anchors that implement SEP-0006 (See more on that below under the “Anything else” section) New validators for Stellar network Access to LOBSTR inflation pool for all Stellar ecosystem developers (See more on that below under the “Anything else” section) Buy crypto with credit cards New “Send” flow for mobile apps (ability to send Stellar assets to email address or phone number) Referral program (See more on that below under the “Anything else” section) Improvements for trading interface Knowledge base updates (new articles and video tutorials) More multisig improvements (N of M multisig support and other updates) Support for transaction signing requests through SEP-0007 from other apps and URI schemes support Contacts section revamp. Similar look and feel to phone book contacts. Enhanced search, address book export, sharing contacts Price alerts (stay on top of any Stellar asset price 24/7 with PUSH notifications) Enable 2FA directly from mobile apps (currently 2FA setup is available on the web only) Multiple upgrades for federated address management Local key storage mode New asset page (rich description for every asset including stats, market cap, charts, SDEX price, etc). Better support for restricted assets and KYC (auth_required, auth_revocable parameters) Ledger Nano X support (via Bluetooth) Description: Check out the video we prepared for you to find out more about LOBSTR wallet and its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQgXYhgKsU Links: Web: https://lobstr.co/ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lobstr.client iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lobstr-stellar-wallet/id1404357892?mt=8 Anything else (additional information): Access to LOBSTR inflation pool for Stellar ecosystem developers LOBSTR will help other projects building on Stellar to benefit from inflation of Stellar network. The Stellar network has a built-in inflation mechanism which distributes new lumens (1% each year) and transaction fees among the accounts which receive the “votes” from users. This may serve several purposes. In particular, it allows people to collaborate and vote for certain ecosystem projects, supporting them with the inflation rewards. However, in order to receive inflation, each account first needs to solve a difficult challenge and get above the minimum votes threshold, which is over 50M. This means that a total balance of wallets voting for the account should be over 50M lumens. Once this threshold is reached a project can start receiving inflation benefits, which may help fund development and fuel further growth. Several projects in the Stellar ecosystem have made attempts to collect their own collect inflation, but at this point this is a very challenging task, since majority of lumens are not yet distributed, which makes the threshold even more difficult. So, supporting a smaller project through inflation mechanism was not really a feasible option. LOBSTR (thanks to over 100,000 voting users) was able to overcome the inflation threshold and started receiving inflation payouts. This now helps us fund the development and continue innovating. Next, we want to help other projects benefit from inflation as well by opening our inflation pool for other projects. We are building a tool that will allow any project building on Stellar ecosystem (wallet, SDK, exchange, etc) to direct the user votes to our inflation pool (users will need to sign a single simple transaction), and immediately receive their share of inflation payouts. You can think of this like Lumenaut pool, but for companies building on Stellar. As an example, 3M votes will generate a monthly revenue of 2500 XLM, which depending on the XLM price may help pay the hosting bills, pay part-time contractors or even provide a support needed to focus on the project full-time. Technically, all the accounts will share the same inflation destination, and the routing will happen through home domain or account data entries - so the shares count will be transparent. We will be refunding 100% of the payouts for the open-source projects, and taking a small fee from others. Full details about the service will be announced in June, once we launch the tools. Please let us know if you’d like to get the early access - we are looking for several projects that would be interested to start in a week or two. Referral program We are working on a referral program for LOBSTR, where a user can invite 3 new users (friends, family) and get a bonus for invitation. Invite friends by sending them a few lumens by email or phone number. We have designed a great onboarding experience for new users that will make it easy for new users to get started with Stellar. We already have the back-end to do it right now. All you need to do is send payment lumens or any other Stellar asset to any email like john.doe@mail.com*lobstr.co or any phone number like +11234567890*lobstr.co to trigger the onboarding email or SMS from LOBSTR, which will give new user ability to claim the assets. We are still designing the rules and rewards, but there’ll be a manual validation to ensure fair participation. SEP-0006 Withdraw/Deposit support LOBSTR will provide withdraw and deposit options for Stellar anchors that support it. This will be based on SEP-0006 protocol and will be live in a few weeks. It will be possible to exchange several crypto or fiat assets with its Stellar anchors equivalents right from your wallet. Let's say you have a Bitcoin that you want to deposit to LOBSTR. Just add any BTC-tethered Stellar asset in LOBSTR, click "Deposit" on the asset page and follow the instructions. When you'll send BTC to anchor account on Bitcoin blockchain, you'll receive BTC asset issued on Stellar in your LOBSTR wallet. That will work for tethered fiat currencies as well. Send your USD or EUR to anchor (through bank transfer or card payment) and you’ll receive the same amount of Stellar tokens to your LOBSTR account. Withdraw fiat Stellar assets directly to your bank account or credit card in a few clicks. Some anchors may choose to request a KYC verification process, which you’ll be able to complete directly from LOBSTR. This needs to be done once (if anchor requires KYC), and afterwards you’ll be able to seamlessly exchange tethered assets. List of Stellar anchors where withdraw/deposit will be available: apay.io (BCH, BTC, LTC, ETH and a few other ERC20 tokens); stellarport.io (BTC, ETC, XRP, LTC); fchain.io (BTC); anchorusd.com (USD); tempo.eu.com (EUR).

The only way your pool makes any sense is if you talk to @stellardevpool Otherwise it will have the same issues that inflation funding has now, that each account only can direct their inflation at one destination. Also, I'm pretty sure you signed me up for your pool without asking me, on one of my accounts.

@dzham Johan, I believe the main issue right now with the inflation is the threshold. While I find @stellardevpool idea interesting, I'm not sure that many people would actually care enough to go the extra mile and configure their accounts and split their inflation to support multiple projects. But let's see how it plays out. Obviously, would be cool to see their idea going live and supporting other projects. However, in their proposal I don't see any info on how they plan to collect enough votes to start generating inflation - and this the most difficult part of their plan. It will probably take at least several months or may never actually happen if they plan to do this on their own (without collaborating with existing pools). Many projects have tried to collect inflation and majority has failed - this is the point which 90%+ of all initiatives related to inflation never reach. We want to change that. And it could be useful to projects like your Stargazer wallet - to directly benefit from inflation. Finally, our initiative might help @stellardevpool to implement their plan, as they won't need to worry about the threshold (again, this is the most tricky part, imo) - they could receive their share directly from us and then distribute between multiple projects according to user votes.

gleb Threshold is definitely an issue, so being able to sub-pool with the StellarTerm pool is a great benefit. But getting back to the actual voting, I mean, either 1) people go to stellardevpool and split their votes, or 2) they have to manually create new accounts just to be able to split their voting between multiple apps. Or they just keep voting for a pool where they get the proceeds themselves, as this is a lot simpler. Worst case scenario is apps requiring inflation voting, since this forces #2. That's why I think sub-pooling with stellardevpool is a winner.

I'd be very happy to see more people consciously choosing to support ecosystem projects with inflation payouts with a tool like @stellardevpool proposes. That'd be quite cool. Oh, and to address this point: Also, I'm pretty sure you signed me up for your pool without asking me, on one of my accounts. We've never changed the inflation destination if a user was voting for a paying pool like Lumenaut. In other cases, we might - and this is now even mentioned in our terms of service. And if you haven't looked at LOBSTR for a while - check out the latest versions, it's a very different app than it was even a year ago.

gleb I'm really happy we're talking about putting inflation to good use, which to me is funding valuable Stellar projects. I know recently there were discussions to remove inflation completely and I'm not sure where the SDF currently stands. But I think if applied properly, inflation could be a unique Stellar feature that enables sustainable gassroots funding for the development of community projects. Of course we'll be happy to work with anyone that is interested. Because stellardevpool voting is recorded as a Stellar transaction, apps like Lobstr that have delegated access to user's private key could still be a part of the pool and vote for themselves on behalf of the user (with their permission). So any apps currently benefiting from inflation would be minimally impacted if they joined the devpool.

@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.

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: 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. 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!

v. 4.1.0 is live on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lobstr.client Try New Send Flow on your Android device and let us know what you think. iOS app will be live soon as well! 🤞

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!

LOBSTR wallet

DrewPalmer

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.

dima

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!

gleb

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.

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