Joaquín Farfán leads a hands-on workshop deploying a smart contract on Stellar's testnet using Soroban and Rust, demonstrating how developers can build financial applications with real-world impact in Latin America.
In this workshop, Joaquín Farfán explains Stellar's mission and technical advantages over Ethereum, then walks participants through building and deploying a Counter smart contract on Stellar's testnet. He covers Soroban (Stellar's smart contract platform), the Stellar Consensus Protocol, predictable gas costs, and Passkeys for improved UX. Using Open Zeppelin templates, Rust, and the Soroban CLI, the group compiles a contract, funds a testnet account, deploys to the network, and invokes functions via Stellar Laboratory. The session emphasizes how Stellar's focus on financial inclusion and lower barriers to entry enable developers to build impactful applications for underbanked populations across Latin America.
