The Stellar monthly news show discusses Lindsay's departure from the Stellar Development Foundation, addresses a recent price feed manipulation incident on Blend with full reimbursements, and covers highlights like ETH Denver events, a successful ZK gaming hackathon, and the 2026 foundation strategy targeting 1 billion in network growth. Lightning round updates include SushiSwap V3 launch, new SDKs, partnerships, and upcoming events like the Mexico hackathon. The episode ends with community reflections and farewells.
Hosts Lindsay, Jay, and Raf host the monthly Stellar news podcast, starting with lighthearted banter about Lindsay's last day at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and her upcoming announcement. They address a recent incident where a malicious actor manipulated the Reflektor USTRY price feed, leading to a $100K loss in a Blend pool, but emphasize quick community response, asset freezes, updates to prevent recurrence, and full user reimbursements. Key highlights include strong Stellar community presence at ETH Denver with events like casino night, a ZK gaming hackathon with nearly 100 entries and high-quality submissions including from Solana devs, and SDF's 2026 strategy focusing on 1B network growth, enterprise partnerships, payments scaling, and privacy via compliant confidential transfers. The lightning round covers SushiSwap V3 on Stellar, Stellar on XLR bridges, private payments open-sourced with Nethermind, TPS records, FX DAO wind-down, Chainalysis upgrades, Sertora security hours, new tools like Stellar Ledger Live and Soroban Playground, partnerships like Top Nod wallet and Kananda's tokenized fund in Malaysia, protocol updates, and events like BAF Mexico hackathon and Stellar House. The show wraps with fond farewells to Lindsay, praising the ecosystem's warmth.
