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Circle's CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) launched on Stellar, enabling native 1:1 USDC bridging across 17 blockchains. This technical walkthrough demonstrates the implementation with working code: burning USDC on one chain authorizes minting on another. Includes open source examples and testnet demo.

José Fernandez Da Ponte, a key Stellar figure, discusses why payments is becoming a compelling use case in LATAM fintech. The ecosystem is moving beyond hype cycles to infrastructure-first thinking: companies like Etherfuse, Félix, and Meru are building on Stellar not to sell crypto, but to solve real financial problems at scale. Distribution wins when 80% of users don't know they're using blockchain.

Stellar Developers meeting featuring Renat's presentation on zero-knowledge group membership proofs for Soroban contracts, followed by Kaan's overview of AI orchestration tools like Paperclip for developer workflows.

Bermuda's government announced it will move its national economy on-chain using the Stellar network, becoming the world's first fully on-chain national economy. The government approved digital asset acceptance and investment policies, and will modify its FinTech Development Fund to support the ecosystem.

Spanish-language tutorial reviewing XLM wallets for Stellar, covering hot wallets (Lobster, Trust Wallet, Freighter) and cold storage options (Ledger, Trezor, Keypair), with emphasis on Stellar's tokenization potential and upcoming US regulation.

Kaan from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), explaining its two modes (charge and channel) for monetizing services on Stellar. MPP enables pay-per-request billing and high-frequency micropayments for agents and services, with a live demo showing how to implement paywalls for premium MCP tools.

BitBond Offering Manager is an enterprise SaaS platform for tokenizing securities, real estate, and bonds across blockchains including Ethereum and Polygon, with compliance features, investor onboarding, and payment collection.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2026 webinar highlights record growth: on-chain RWAs surpassed $2 billion (3x quarter-over-quarter), payment volume reached $5.5 billion (up 72% YoY), and the network now supports 10.6 million unique addresses with 99.99% uptime. Major institutions including U.S. Bank, Amundi, and Societe Generale are deploying regulated products on Stellar.

Educational tutorial on developing smart contracts with Soroban, Stellar's WebAssembly-based smart contract platform. Covers the 7-step process from CLI installation to contract deployment and invocation on testnet.

Two Stellar ecosystem projects, ArcusX and SoZu Pay, were awarded the InstaWords Award for a four-week sprint. ArcusX is building a freelance marketplace on Stellar to reduce fees and payment delays in Latin America, while SoZu Pay is developing NGO disbursement infrastructure using stablecoins and the Stellar Disbursement Platform.

Meru CEO Amilcar Kaderazo and Stellar Development Foundation's Ada Bogan discuss how neobanks powered by stablecoins are transforming financial access in Latin America, with Meru offering cross-border payments, savings, and DeFi integration for freelancers and emerging markets.

Stellar Community Fund April Demo Day featured three mainnet projects: Volta, a programmable multi-signature wallet for Soroban; Splice, a fixed-rate institutional lending platform for tokenized RWAs; and Dog Protocol, a liquid real-world asset DEX. SCF has funded over 60 projects totaling $6.4M in 2026.