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Can different assets on Stellar be associated with one another programmatically?

Assets are related to each through offers on the DEX. If you make two standing offers to openly trade a pair of assets in both directions to set the trading value between them, then that relationship ...
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Are transactions validated by anchors, and how are they rewarded?

Nobody is rewarded for validating transactions. All transactions are equal, regardless of the assets involved. Anchors do not validate transactions. Validation is done by validating nodes. People ...
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How can I take money from a customer's account?

In the case that you're referring to, the anchor is expected to (as the doc says) "maintain a Stellar account for each customer", i.e. a managed wallet where the anchor controls the private keys. (...
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Best practices for managing Stellar accounts as an anchor

I am not clear what you want to do. As far I understand the questions is how users can hold my custom asset and XLM on the same account. In that case, here's one way how to do that You already do ...
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Do I need to create and back my own USD token, or are there more distributed approaches to bring USD into my Stellar based app?

One alternative could be to integrate with an existing USD anchor (e.g. AnchorUSD). Ecosystem standards like SEP-0024: Interactive Anchor/Wallet Asset Transfer Server (alongside SEP-0010 & SEP-...
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Given a public key, is there a way to find the assets issued by the account?

Yes, it's possible. You can use /assets endpoint. Do not forget to provide a large enough limit parameter, as Horizon always return max 10 records by default. For example, here is the list of assets ...
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Anchor Platform Set up Error

I resolved this by using the latest docker image and not the 2.0.0-rc.1 release indicated in the developer docs.
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what are the licenses and how is stellar validate an anchor?

Stellar is a public, open-participation network. That means you can start building on it today, no permission required. You don't need a license to use the network. However, if you want to anchor a ...
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Error when django-polaris installation

First, make sure your pip installation is for Python 3. If you have python3.3 or higher installed, you can test with a non-system pip by creating a virtual environment. mkdir test cd test python3 -m ...
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How to retrieve a list of "pending Truslines" to verify?

You should be able to use the Horizon /accounts endpoint to return all the accounts with trustlines to an asset: https://www.stellar.org/developers/horizon/reference/endpoints/accounts.html You can ...
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Why Does Stellar Support Authorization-Required Assets?

As I understand it, the main use case is to support KYC (know your customer) and anti-money laundering. An issuer can confirm identity in order to satisfy relevant laws in their jurisdiction, and then ...
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Can the docker quickstart allow me to test out "becoming an anchor"?

I struggled with this as well because basically the documentation is a bit fuzzy on what is what and on the overall architecture. All you need to be an anchor is to use the public horizon endpoint + ...
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Role of Anchors and real peer-to-peer

You need anchor to convert the credits to FIAT currency.
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How much does it cost to exchange 100 USD for EURs on Stellar Network?

Using your example, in order to withdraw EUR from Anchor2, you will need to trade your Anchor1:USD for Anchor2:EUR on the distributed exchange (SDEX). The cost will be the exchange rate of that trade,...
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Do anchors need to hold lumens for converting to assets or its direct credit trusting the anchor?

You don't need to have an equivalent amount of Lumens. But you need to have the base reserve fee and some Lumens. You need to spend 100 stroops (0.00001 XLM) for each operation that you perform, ...
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Do anchors need to hold lumens for converting to assets or its direct credit trusting the anchor?

You do not need to hold Lumens to be an anchor. You are supposed to hold the actual asset (like the real BTC) that your token represents before you send it.
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Bifrost for altcoins?

I'm operating anchor apay.io and half a year ago I was looking at Bifrost if it can be used for my anchor. Potentially yes, but: it requires some code changes you would still need to implement ...
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