That brings us to the end of this chapter. This chapter should help you design complex currency asset exchanges and market makers on the Stellar payments network. You can run this on a private blockchain network or on a public instance of the Stellar network. It's a great tool to inboard traditional market makers to blockchain payment networks.
We started this chapter by looking at Stellar's distributed exchange and the concept of market makers. We set up a private Stellar network instance with Horizon and Stellar Core. We then created user accounts for trading and issuing assets. We created three trading assets—namely, US Dollar (USD), Pound (GBP), and Euro (EUR)—and funded our trading account with these assets. Lastly, we created our currency exchange on top of the private Stellar network and ran the entire currency exchange end to end.
The main...