Stellar Evaluation

Summary - Stellar is a highly performant trading platform built on a federated byzantine agreement model.

Reference Material

Stellar Core - Stellar-core is a replicated state machine that maintains a local copy of a cryptographic ledger and processes transactions against it, in consensus with a set of peers.
- Stellar Consensus Protocol
Stellar Go - Contains all go Code produced by the Stellar foundation and it's Services include
- Horizon - Horizon is the client facing API server for the Stellar ecosystem
- Bifrost - Bifrost is highly available and secure Bitcoin/Ethereum → Stellar bridge.

Key Repositories

Functional Breakdown

Trading Functionality
- Allow Buy Offers
Stellar Core
- New Work Interface Builds
Persistence
- Storage
  - Data Layer rewrite - 1600 and 1788
- Light Client
- Node
- Validator
- Archive Node
Distribution
- Discovery
- Gossip
  - Buffered Ledger Replay
- Consensus
  - Block Finality
Security
- Signing
- Hashing
- Privacy
- Key Storage
  - Standardize format of Encrypted Key Files
Governance
- Staking
- Voting
Chaincode
- See WASM above
Deployment
Interledger
- Message Format
- Relay Chain
- Consensus Process
- Cross Chain *722 - Bifrost (Stellar Ethereum Bridge)
Developer Tools
- API
  - Horizon API
- RPC
- CLI
- SDK
  - GO SDK
Off Chain Orchestration
- Oracles
- Workflow
Wallets
- Feather
Chain Tools
- Governance
- Token Economics
- Token Standards
Business Tools
- Analytics
- System Monitoring
- Deployment Tools

Key Pull Requests or Features

Deploying a Stellar Node

Deploying an Asset

Running a Transaction

Bifrost Server Setup