Tomer, CPO at Stellar Development Foundation, presented how Stellar has achieved product-market fit through real-world use cases like Decaf remittances, Stellar Aid Assist refugee dispersements, and Franklin Templeton's tokenized treasuries. He outlined the ecosystem's 1-to-10 scaling roadmap focusing on protocol optimization, data access improvements, and wallet enhancements.
At Meridian conference, Tomer from SDF discussed Stellar's achievement of product-market fit across payments, remittances, and institutional finance. Key examples include Decaf enabling cross-border payments for remote workers in Colombia, Stellar Aid Assist dispersing over $5 million to Ukrainian refugees via UNHCR, and Franklin Templeton's Benji fund as the first US-registered blockchain-based fund on Stellar with $420 million TVL. The presentation covered the ecosystem's transition from zero-to-one to one-to-ten scaling, highlighting protocol improvements like state archival and 100x Soroban throughput targets, data layer expansion including Dune Analytics integration and Nansen access launching Q1 2025, and wallet innovations like protocol-level passkey support and LaunchTube gasless transactions. SDF announced collaboration with Blockade for on-chain security and emphasized support through programs like the Stellar Community Fund, which distributed over $26 million to nearly 400 projects since 2023.