Kaan from SDF hosts a Stellar Developers Meeting featuring April from Kolkata discussing Route 14, a ZK privacy toolkit for Soroban. The discussion covers Stellar's native BLS 12-381 support (CAP 0059) that makes production-grade zero-knowledge verification cheaper than any other blockchain, Route 14's architecture as a shared verification registry, and upcoming Turkey-based hackathons.
In this Stellar Developers Meeting, Kaan (Senior Developer Advocate at SDF) hosts April, a developer from Kolkata who built Route 14, a ZK privacy toolkit for Soroban smart contracts. April explains why Stellar's native BLS 12-381 support (from CAP 0059) is a unique advantage: pairing checks that cost millions of instructions on other chains cost just one host function on Stellar. Route 14 is not a privacy app but cryptographic infrastructure—a shared verification registry that lets teams build private payments, mixers, and shielded pools without duplicating audit costs. The toolkit includes a core registry contract, circuit libraries, and developer tools. April shares his journey from winning 15 hackathons to building Route 14, which launched in February 2026 after joining the community in October 2025. Khan announces upcoming events in Turkey (Istanbul hackathon and a major web3 conference in early June) and previews developer-focused AI tools for the second part of the meeting.
