Chad Oh from The Aha Company presents Scaffold Stellar, a rapid application development tool for building Stellar dApps with smart defaults and minimal setup. The talk covers the Stellar Scaffold CLI for project initialization and the Stellar Registry for publishing and managing WASM binaries on-chain.
Chad Oh, CEO of The Aha Company (formerly AHA Labs), introduces Scaffold Stellar, a developer framework designed to accelerate dApp development on Stellar. The tool provides a CLI for initializing projects with sensible defaults, a local development environment with contract deployment automation, and TypeScript bindings generation. Key features include contract traits for composable smart contracts, environment-based configuration via environments.toml, and the Stellar Registry for publishing named, versioned WASM binaries on-chain. The talk demonstrates building a guess-the-number game, updating contracts in real-time, and discusses future roadmap items including pnpm support, registry UI, OpenZeppelin contract maintenance, and passkeys integration. The vision positions Scaffold Stellar as a bridge between learning tools like Scaffold ETH and production frameworks like Ruby on Rails.
