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Argentina Builder Challenge concludes two-week virtual hackathon (Sept 12-27) with winners announced. 44 developers created 20 projects across Genesis (new ideas) and Scale (existing) tracks, with participants from Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Third-place winner: Changuito, an AI shopping assistant using Stellar smart contracts for USDC payments.

Stella Developers Meeting covers USDT0, Tether's USDT delivered to Stellar via LayerZero's OFT standard. Live on mainnet since September with $2.58M in bridged assets, 23,717 accounts, and 7 DVN operators. Technical walkthrough of cross-chain architecture and developer capabilities for sending, receiving, and tracking stablecoins across 23 networks.

Stellar hits $4B+ in tokenized real-world assets on 360% annual growth, driven by institutional adoption from Franklin Templeton (Benji), Spiko, and recent announcements from US Bank and MoneyGram. The ecosystem is now focused on using RWAs in DeFi, with infrastructure like Redstone providing the missing 24/7 pricing layer.

Cyberbrawl 2.0 launches on web and Google Play with Intel Hub (player profiles, battle history, meta data from top matches). Cross-platform Stellar wallet login via QR, season 1 ranked play, AI opponents trained on 100k real battles, and Legends tournaments.

The Stellar Developers Meeting introduces Raven, an AI assistant for builders navigating the Stellar ecosystem. Kaan from SDF and Themes from Guava Global discuss how Raven helps with documentation, context, and checking what's already been built. The meeting covers Hack Meridian details: a two-track hackathon (Oct 25-26 in Lisbon) with workshops and mentorship, plus 20+ activation events across European cities.

Hack Meridian (Oct 25-26, Lisbon) is Stellar's two-day hackathon with mentorship, office hours, and prizes. Two tracks: Genesis for new builders with ideas, Scale for lifting existing projects. 20+ European regional events running now to prepare.

Zebec and AllUnity launched Europe's first onchain employee benefits program in Germany, using the EURAU regulated digital euro on Stellar. The program automates recurring benefit payments, reduces administration, and gives employers real-time visibility while complying with German tax rules for non-cash employee benefits.

SDF's Chief Business Officer discusses why institutions remain cautious on RWAs despite $3B in Stellar tokenization. Key barriers: risk frameworks, secondary liquidity, privacy, and the infrastructure needed for institutional comfort.

Stellar developer meeting featuring Nethermind on the Stellar Private Payment System: live Q&A with cryptographer Antonio Arriba covering privacy architecture, zero-knowledge proof design, compliance rules via association sets, and how SPP compares to other privacy solutions.

Nethermind on building private, compliant payments for Stellar. The Stellar Private Payment System (SPP) allows users to transact privately while pool operators maintain configurable compliance controls for regulators. Built on Soroban with ZK verifiers for Noir and RISK-Zero proof systems.

NuVante's stablecoin clearing prototype was tested in the Bank of England's RTGS lab, demonstrating how blockchain can orchestrate settlement across digital money systems. The prototype marks institutional validation of Stellar as infrastructure for coordinating multiple forms of digital assets.

The Stellar Journey to Mastery program wrapped its initial 6-month run with a demo day showcasing 10+ builders who shipped live products to mainnet. The belt-based progression system, which scaled from 5,000 applicants to 4,849 active participants across 32 countries, proved extended support produces shipped goods—not abandoned hackathon projects.

Kaan shares his journey from law degree to Web3 developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation. After years in legal practice, he discovered blockchain's pace was a better fit. Now at SDF following Risein bootcamp, he encourages others to make the transition.

Stellar Community Fund's September Mainnet Demo Day featured SCF-funded projects shipping live products. ZIG3 launched a passkey-based smart wallet with embedded DeFi and play-to-earn games. Vottun and Wirex released a payment SDK reducing development from weeks to minutes. KindFi showcased its blockchain-based crowdfunding platform for LATAM causes.

Turkish blockchain educator Aybars discusses his career path from founding blockchain education initiatives to becoming a Stellar ambassador and AI identity builder. He shares insights on ecosystem support mechanisms and his vision for scaling AI agents in e-commerce on Stellar mainnet.

Chad Oh walks through Stellar Registry, the smart contract module discovery system for Stellar. Learn how to publish WASMs with names and versions, deploy contracts from the UI, use the CLI for automation, and navigate governance for registry promotion. A complete developer guide to using Stellar's on-chain module distribution.

LOFI presents a fully-built Blend v3 candidate addressing failures in the Comet LP pool. In response to a critical exploit that drained $51M in BLEND tokens, the proposal introduces tiered backstops, XLM as a designated swap token to reduce USDC dependency, and comprehensive clawback support for real-world assets. The candidate aims to keep Blend's immutable core and permissionless design while extending features needed for institutional adoption.

Fundable Live: weekly Spaces on web3 earnings. Covers Fundable Finance's payment/payroll/offramping platform, token opportunities on Robinhood chain, and Drip, a Stellar-based open-source contributor rewards program.

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.

Bento is a security layer for AI agents accessing DeFi yield on Stellar. Co-founder Trey discusses how the platform helps agents safely navigate Stellar's fragmented DeFi protocols and real-world asset opportunities, leveraging behavior-based security to prevent unauthorized transactions. A serial hackathon winner, Bento previously shipped on Solana but sees Stellar's regulated stablecoin infrastructure as the ideal foundation for agent-powered payments.

Stellar Private Payments developer preview is live on testnet via Nethermind. The zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses using Groth16 proofs. Web and Rust SDKs, a CLI tool, and demo app are available for developers.

Stellar Private Payments is available on testnet as a developer preview. Built by Nethermind, it's a zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol that breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses while maintaining compliance readiness. Web and Rust SDKs are live.

Educational guide for new builders joining the Stellar ecosystem. Explains the three pillars of Stellar (SDF, independent validators/developers, and global community), then focuses on the Stellar Community Fund—how it works as a grants program, evaluation criteria, and the step-by-step process for submitting projects and connecting with other builders.

Developers Meeting: Moonlight Protocol (privacy layer by AHA) launches on Stellar mainnet. Chad and Gorka explain UTXO model for privacy, compliance-ready provider bundling, and regulatory framework. Covers architecture and provider councils for regulated finance use cases.