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Stellar Developers Meeting - 09/03/2026

Stellar Developers Meeting focuses on confidential token transfers. SDF's Frontier Labs team (Khan, Brie Wild) demonstrates Who Ate Gerald, a social deduction game built to teach privacy mechanics on testnet. OpenZeppelin built the circuits and Noir proofs; Nethermind built the ultra-honk ZK verifier.

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Stellar Developers Meeting covers confidential token transfers via Who Ate Gerald, a social deduction game demonstrating privacy mechanics. Frontier Labs, SDF's new team for core infrastructure, built the game to make confidential token transfers tangible: players purchase items from shops using private tokens, with amounts hidden from all parties except a designated auditor (Maude McLedger in the game). The technical implementation partners OpenZeppelin (Soroban contract suite and Noir circuits) and Nethermind (ultra-honk ZK verifier). Confidential tokens remain in developer preview on testnet; the game serves as an educational tool to teach both the privacy mechanism and how auditor-accessible transparency can coexist with user privacy. The meeting includes the Frontier Labs team, SDF colleagues, and ecosystem participants playing the game live to demonstrate the token transfer flow in action.

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