Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF walks through Stellar development fundamentals, covering the Stellar stack, SDKs, transaction building with JavaScript, and delegated signing with Albedo wallet for non-custodial key management.
In this workshop, Tyler Vanderhoeven, ecosystem engineer at the Stellar Development Foundation, provides a comprehensive guide to developing on Stellar. He explains the Stellar stack architecture including the core synchronization layer, Horizon API, and SDKs. The session covers practical JavaScript SDK usage for creating and signing transactions, demonstrates building a payment transaction on testnet, and introduces delegated signing via Albedo wallet. This approach allows applications to compose transactions without holding user secret keys, improving security. The discussion includes Q&A on browser support, asset types, AMMs, bridges, and real-world use cases like low-connectivity financial services.
