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I co-founded Stellar Development Foundation（SDF）in early 2014 to build the Stellar network. From the very beginning and still today many of the most active contributors and supporters have been from the Chinese community. It took years of engineering effort by some of the most talented developers in the world to create and implement the Stellar network. But we got there and now Stellar is now growing rapidly and being used all over the world for a variety of things, cross border payments, tokenizing all kinds of assets, trading, etc. SDF is currently working on scalability. We are implementing things like payments channels and sub-networks to make the network scale way beyond its current capacity.

It is also no longer just SDF pushing things forward. There are now many companies built on top of Stellar and contributing to the ecosystem. It has been an amazing journey so far and although there is still a lot to do we are getting close to achieving our goal of creating an internet level protocol for payments and financial activity. This will level the playing field for everyone and increase not just financial inclusion but economic participation and lead to all kinds of interesting innovation and benefits for everyone.

Wenpeng Song, Ran Liang and Feng Han are all early participants in the Chinese technology community and Stellar community. I'm really excited that they are still involved and thank them for the books they brought to the Stellar technology community. Looking forward to the road ahead!

Jed McCaleb