# Local-Settle/local-settle-backend > Open-source NestJS API for a peer-to-peer marketplace linking local payments with USDC settlement on Stellar: wallet authentication, orders, chat, and escrow coordination via Soroban and Trustless Work. - Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Quiet - Stars: 131 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-07, 13:29–15:37 UTC, ≈ 0 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Backend & databases · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-07 - GitHub: https://github.com/Local-Settle/local-settle-backend · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Local-Settle/local-settle-backend ## Useful for - Run the backend locally with PostgreSQL and Testnet for marketplace frontend development - Prepare an unsigned USDC payment transaction to a recipient address or alias - Open a Soroban multi-release escrow for a buyer-seller trade ## Why it’s here - Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 13:29–15:37: 131 → 131 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval. - The repository is 0 days old and already has 131 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet. - Top new repositories this week: #105. - About 280 forks a day — people are taking the code. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 128 - Issues and pull requests: 2 - Watchers: 0 - Average over the last week: 0 per day - Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks) - Stars in the last hour (measured): 0 ## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 0 ## Spotted in now - Top new repositories this week: #105 ## Similar by description 1. **Local-Settle/local-settle-frontend** — 1.3 · Quiet · Finance & crypto · TypeScript · +0 stars measured 2026-10-07, 13:29–15:37 UTC, ≈ 0 by evening Next.js web client for LocalSettle, a peer-to-peer marketplace where users publish offers and coordinate local fiat payments while settling the crypto side in USDC escrow on Stellar and Soroban. Uses Stellar Wallets Kit for login and… Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Local-Settle/local-settle-frontend.md --- Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score. Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast. Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself. Data as of 2026-10-07 15:45 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.