Former Mozilla (Firefox) COO Denelle Dixon will become SDF’s Executive Director and CEO on May 1st. Jed McCaleb will become Chief Architect, focused on protocol development and adoption.

SDF Press Release
“Why I’m Joining Stellar” by Denelle Dixon
“Thank you, Denelle Dixon” by Chris Beard

“Could you see a cartoon rocket ship in use at some central bank or in a press release from a national monetary authority? We couldn’t either."

Plans for 2019 include streamlining Core so more validators can join the network, significant changes to Horizon, an overhauled Stellar.org site, an open-source wallet SDK, ecosystem projects being supported by SDF, and more.

McCaleb pens an update about SDF lumen sales, inflation, Starlight, and SDF's general plans.

Yahoo Finance interviews McCaleb. Highlights:

• "If it’s not a public chain, then you’re missing the point."
• "In the rest of the cryptocurrency world now, there’s this big push for tokenizing different things, and now there’s the stablecoin hype, and Stellar has sort of been doing this all along, we just weren’t calling it that."