Stronghold

About Stronghold.co

An asset management platform for crypto assets based in Silicon Valley.

Why We’re Excited:
First mover providing institutional-grade platform in the crypto asset eco-system

Both founders have spent several years in crypto and building on the Stellar protocol.
Tammy Camp (CEO) was the first Head of Growth at Stellar Development Foundation
Sean Bennett (CTO) built the first Stellar fiat gateway.

Decentralized exchange - all assets will be a part of the Stellar decentralized exchange.

Security - we have best-in-class security experts on hand and leverage security-centric protocols using multisig and hardened deterministic wallets in all Stronghold accounts. We also use institutional level hot and deep cold storage.

Headquartered in the heart of tech innovation: San Francisco, CA, USA

Progress on the project:

Stronghold now provides wallets for BTC, ETH and XLM and anchors BTC and ETH. Up next is the trading client in the next 2 weeks. Then adding more ERC-20 tokens.

dzham

I'm happy to see Sean up to things, but it saddens me that decentralized technology "has to" be done in SF.

stronghold

dzham - We are doing it in SF because there is more access to the right capital here. There's no disputing that according to CB insights and researchers re: capital. This increases our chances of success. Hope that clarifies.

fiatjaf

I see this: https://i.imgur.com/h8eyJQI.png

What will happen if I send some BTC or ETH? Do you have open offers between XLM and Stronghold's BTC or something like that?

stronghold

fiatjaf - Right now it acts as a wallet. You can store your BTC and ETH at Stronghold now. Soon you will be able to trade it here.

dzham

stronghold I know the why, and I'm not disputing it. I'm just hoping for more decentralization.

(The technology is decentralized, teams are decentralized, why not the funding? Obviously, ICOs have largely been a failure, due to money grabbing founders.)

stronghold

dzham Sadly, the capital hasn't caught up with the technology yet. It's largely due to how their investors (LPs of funds) view being distributed. They typically don't see it as a positive sign. It's a very traditional way of thinking about it and I'm not sure how that is going to change in the next few years. I guess we will wait and see!

umbrel

Cool, now I see what Sean was talking about.
I can only offer my anchor https://apay.io if you ever decide to outsource that part

stronghold

umbrel Thanks for the offer umbrel - Since we are planning to target institutionals in the next coming years, we have to anchor (or have custody) in-house at Stronghold.

We are excited to be a part of this growing community.

umbrel

stronghold ok, then how about collaborating on the same source code? I mean open-sourcing it and using it for both projects? Or in case of Ethereum using SDF's BiFrost, for example?

sb_

umbrel We're certainly open to open sourcing pieces of the anchor down the road. However, right now we're moving too quickly and building specifically to our own needs (and architecture) to be able to offer something safe and usable to the wider community.

I'll contact you on Slack to see if there's anything we can do now.

stronghold

umbrel - For sure we would be open to this in the future. +1 sb_

stronghold

umbrel - Our source code is written is Go. Would you be okay with starting that language our of our public repo?

fiatjaf

umbrel Totally off-topic, but what is Bifrost?

I've seen https://github.com/stellar/bifrost-js-sdk, but it isn't clear what it does.

umbrel

stronghold Yes, I'm ok with Go, my team is not up to speed, but we will catch up.

umbrel

fiatjaf It's a tool developed by SDF to accept BTC/ETH for ICOs. Like one-way anchor
Try https://bifrost.stellar.org, it maybe more self-explanatory.

stronghold

Hey umbrel - That is great news. We will work to move our private repo into a public space in the next coming weeks.

zain

Hey guys, I signed up with the email zain.allarakhia@gmail.com. I wanted to send Lumens to it from Astral, but am hitting errors resolving the federation address.

Here's the URL we were hitting to resolve, for example:
https://api.stronghold.co/stellar/federation?q=zain.allarakhia@gmail.com*stronghold.co&type=name

requestId	"9eb88e73-3268-437e-97e0-1277739f2753"
timestamp	1510283469
success	false
result	null
errorCode	""

Thanks, super excited to try it out :-). Really excited to see exchanges that are prioritizing security. Also, I love the design so far.

stronghold

@zain - Thanks for pointing this out. @sb_ and I will look into this.

stronghold

Hi everyone,

Since the last build challenge, we've achieved the following:

Created a trading interface
Added two-factor authentication
20,000+ users have joined
Registered with FINCEN as a money service business MSB

We looking forward to anchoring more assets and adding a more robust trading interface.

Cheers,

Sean and Tammy

Pedity

stronghold Hello stronghold, It is certainly a very good project ?

Is there a way a stellar asset can apply for listing on your network. I have asked for this in tweet last week but got no response. Hence asking ?