Tyler Vanderhoeven, developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation, demonstrates how to bridge Stellar assets into Soroban smart contracts using Stellar asset contracts, enabling seamless interoperability between the two layers.
Tyler Vanderhoeven presents a technical walkthrough of moving Stellar assets into Soroban tokens through Stellar asset contracts. The talk covers issuing assets on Stellar, opening trust lines, wrapping assets using the Soroban CLI, minting tokens, and finally using those assets within Soroban smart contracts. A key insight is that wrapped assets are not separate tokens but the same asset linked via a pipeline, so balances remain unified across both layers. The demonstration includes creating a simple airdrop contract that mints tokens, showing how operations on Soroban are instantly reflected on the Stellar side through the Horizon API.