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Argentina Builder Challenge concludes two-week virtual hackathon (Sept 12-27) with winners announced. 44 developers created 20 projects across Genesis (new ideas) and Scale (existing) tracks, with participants from Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Third-place winner: Changuito, an AI shopping assistant using Stellar smart contracts for USDC payments.

Stella Developers Meeting covers USDT0, Tether's USDT delivered to Stellar via LayerZero's OFT standard. Live on mainnet since September with $2.58M in bridged assets, 23,717 accounts, and 7 DVN operators. Technical walkthrough of cross-chain architecture and developer capabilities for sending, receiving, and tracking stablecoins across 23 networks.

Stellar hits $4B+ in tokenized real-world assets on 360% annual growth, driven by institutional adoption from Franklin Templeton (Benji), Spiko, and recent announcements from US Bank and MoneyGram. The ecosystem is now focused on using RWAs in DeFi, with infrastructure like Redstone providing the missing 24/7 pricing layer.

Cyberbrawl 2.0 launches on web and Google Play with Intel Hub (player profiles, battle history, meta data from top matches). Cross-platform Stellar wallet login via QR, season 1 ranked play, AI opponents trained on 100k real battles, and Legends tournaments.

The Stellar Developers Meeting introduces Raven, an AI assistant for builders navigating the Stellar ecosystem. Kaan from SDF and Themes from Guava Global discuss how Raven helps with documentation, context, and checking what's already been built. The meeting covers Hack Meridian details: a two-track hackathon (Oct 25-26 in Lisbon) with workshops and mentorship, plus 20+ activation events across European cities.

Hack Meridian (Oct 25-26, Lisbon) is Stellar's two-day hackathon with mentorship, office hours, and prizes. Two tracks: Genesis for new builders with ideas, Scale for lifting existing projects. 20+ European regional events running now to prepare.

Zebec and AllUnity launched Europe's first onchain employee benefits program in Germany, using the EURAU regulated digital euro on Stellar. The program automates recurring benefit payments, reduces administration, and gives employers real-time visibility while complying with German tax rules for non-cash employee benefits.

SDF's Chief Business Officer discusses why institutions remain cautious on RWAs despite $3B in Stellar tokenization. Key barriers: risk frameworks, secondary liquidity, privacy, and the infrastructure needed for institutional comfort.

Stellar developer meeting featuring Nethermind on the Stellar Private Payment System: live Q&A with cryptographer Antonio Arriba covering privacy architecture, zero-knowledge proof design, compliance rules via association sets, and how SPP compares to other privacy solutions.

Nethermind on building private, compliant payments for Stellar. The Stellar Private Payment System (SPP) allows users to transact privately while pool operators maintain configurable compliance controls for regulators. Built on Soroban with ZK verifiers for Noir and RISK-Zero proof systems.

NuVante's stablecoin clearing prototype was tested in the Bank of England's RTGS lab, demonstrating how blockchain can orchestrate settlement across digital money systems. The prototype marks institutional validation of Stellar as infrastructure for coordinating multiple forms of digital assets.

The Stellar Journey to Mastery program wrapped its initial 6-month run with a demo day showcasing 10+ builders who shipped live products to mainnet. The belt-based progression system, which scaled from 5,000 applicants to 4,849 active participants across 32 countries, proved extended support produces shipped goods—not abandoned hackathon projects.