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Stellar Developers Meeting focuses on confidential token transfers. SDF's Frontier Labs team (Khan, Brie Wild) demonstrates Who Ate Gerald, a social deduction game built to teach privacy mechanics on testnet. OpenZeppelin built the circuits and Noir proofs; Nethermind built the ultra-honk ZK verifier.

Bento is a security layer for AI agents accessing DeFi yield on Stellar. Co-founder Trey discusses how the platform helps agents safely navigate Stellar's fragmented DeFi protocols and real-world asset opportunities, leveraging behavior-based security to prevent unauthorized transactions. A serial hackathon winner, Bento previously shipped on Solana but sees Stellar's regulated stablecoin infrastructure as the ideal foundation for agent-powered payments.

Stellar Private Payments is available on testnet as a developer preview. Built by Nethermind, it's a zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol that breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses while maintaining compliance readiness. Web and Rust SDKs are live.

Developers Meeting: Moonlight Protocol (privacy layer by AHA) launches on Stellar mainnet. Chad and Gorka explain UTXO model for privacy, compliance-ready provider bundling, and regulatory framework. Covers architecture and provider councils for regulated finance use cases.

Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator cohort showcase featuring 10 hand-selected teams building real financial infrastructure on Stellar. Teams span payments, remittances, wallets, FX, and trade finance, with demo presentations from founders including Remi (privacy-enabled remittances) and Yolot (multi-currency payments for global Africans).

Weekly show Onchain Africa interviews Koxy, co-founder of Choppaddi, a Stellar-based food and grocery delivery platform serving Africa. Discussion explores blockchain payments, creator economy infrastructure, and multi-currency transaction options for vendors and riders across West Africa.

Vietnamese team SEI Lab discusses Family Haven, a non-custodial wallet for families built on Soroban. The product addresses $7 billion in elderly asset losses through guardian protection and recovery features, deployed on testnet. Team won third prize at the APAC Hackathon.

Offer Hub's SCF #44 demo shows a non-custodial marketplace implementation using Stellar Wallets Kit. The walkthrough covers wallet registration, multi-wallet account management, real-time on-chain balance reading via Horizon, and passwordless wallet-based login supporting Freighter, Lobster, and xBull.

Stellar Developers Meeting 08/20 covers wallet infrastructure integration for dApp developers. Host Kahn (SDF Developer Advocate) walks through six different approaches: Stellar Wallet Kit, Blux (email/social), Privy, Para, Passkey Kit, and Smart Account Kit. Learn configuration gotchas, when each auth pattern fits your app's UX, and upcoming Protocol 28 testnet upgrade.

Emin Kargöz (Kaptan), a developer from Turkey, traces his path into blockchain from initial curiosity about the technology to becoming an active Stellar ecosystem builder. Hackathons proved the turning point, offering deadline pressure and community that tutorials couldn't match. His project Subrosa, a privacy and coordination infrastructure on Stellar and Soroban, won the Build on Stellar hackathon in Istanbul. Now as a developer advocate, he mentors others.

Stellar Builder Summit Sao Paulo: 12 winners announced across 6 tracks including confidential tokens, enterprise RWA escrow, regional on-ramp kits, emerging market yield, agentic payment discovery, and CLI tooling. 190 developers built for 8 consecutive days, delivering products spanning privacy, institutional infrastructure, and local payments.

Stellar Community Fund's August Mainnet Demo Day featured SCF-funded projects demonstrating live implementations. Decent Wallet showcased the first hardware wallet supporting XLM5 yields via Soroswap and Centora Vault. AgTrail presented end-to-end food traceability for Nigerian farmers with instant NGNC payments on Stellar's payment backbone.