This is of importance because it's core to Stellar's mission: https://www.stellar.org/foundation https://www.stellar.org/foundation The fact it's tied to a Key

This is of importance because it's core to Stellar's mission: https://www.stellar.org/foundation https://www.stellar.org/foundation The fact it's tied to a Keybase wallet is important because Stellar's path payments functionality was just launched on Keybase. To summarize, you can use Keybase to send someone any asset they'd like using any asset you're holding, all on Stellar's decentralized exchange. It happens transparently behind the scenes to convert assets: https://www.stellar.org/developers/horizon/reference/endpoints/path-finding.html https://www.stellar.org/developers/horizon/reference/endpoin... If it lends any credibility to you, Stellar was initially backed by Stripe in 2014: https://stripe.com/blog/stellar https://stripe.com/blog/stellar