To this end, Keybase and the Stellar Development Foundation are set to help one another grow for the foreseeable future. It’s a really cool example of micropayments in action, and it’s exactly the kind of thing we hope to inspire and enable with this airdrop.” Recently, a Keybase user made an XLM-based bot called If you send just a tiny bit of XLM it will reply with a throwaway phone number you can use to receive SMS messages for a short period of time. “Keybase also has a bot-making framework that, combined with the speed and efficiency of Stellar, makes for a lot of awesome possibilities.

One year later, Keybase unfurled Stellar wallet support within its ecosystem, allowing users to receive and send XLM easily within the company’s encrypted chat system. Now, the newly announced airdrop is the latest meld between the fledgling Stellar community and Keybase, which itself currently boasts more than 300,000 users.īut it’s not just the Keybase audience that the Stellar Development Foundation wants to reach - Keybase also has a bot system that will open up new use cases for XLM, the non-profit said in its Monday announcement: In March 2018, Keybase announced that the Stellar Development Foundation had begun funding the company and that it would “release something big involving Stellar” imminently. In the past, Keybase had initially supported Bitcoin and Zcash addresses. 2 Keybase Likes Stellar’s Environmentally-Friendly Design.

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