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Garant from Stellar Development Foundation presents Protocol 23 (WISC) performance enhancements for smart contracts, including parallel transaction execution via conflict-free parallelism, in-memory state caching, and reusable module caching that reduce instruction costs by up to 80% and improve network throughput.

Meridian conference panel featuring Arculus tap-to-pay hardware wallets, PwC guidance on enterprise blockchain adoption, Alfred's stablecoin payment infrastructure across Latin America, and Mercado Bitcoin's 1.5B reais in tokenized credit on Stellar.

A keynote on how stablecoins and programmable money can transform everyday payments through automation, spending guardrails, and yield generation, moving beyond faster settlement to smarter financial behavior.

Akuna wallet, built on Stellar, enables African creators to monetize globally by providing virtual US dollar accounts and stablecoin holdings. The platform addresses barriers preventing Africa's 1.4 billion people from accessing the creator economy, with actor Idris Elba discussing how technology can leapfrog infrastructure gaps.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference on simplifying crypto UX through wallet infrastructure, stablecoins, and remittances. Speakers from Stellar, Privy, and Beans discuss hiding blockchain complexity to enable mainstream adoption.

RTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses 11 years of stablecoin payments innovation, revealing that despite proven technical superiority over PayPal, the industry remains 70x smaller and faces challenges around liquidity, consumer adoption, and coordinated ecosystem efforts to scale.

Pantera Capital partner Paul Veradittakit discusses the firm's 11-year investment in crypto, its thesis on Stellar-powered payments for emerging markets, and its new Fund 5 strategy including digital asset treasuries.

Civitas ID, a human-centered digital identity system for displaced persons and refugees, is being built on Stellar to solve the invisibility crisis affecting 123 million displaced people globally. The platform aims to bridge humanitarian aid dependency into formal economic participation through portable, verifiable credentials.

Circle's Daniel Pérez discusses CCTP v2 coming to Stellar in Q1 2026, enabling deeper liquidity and lower-cost remittances across Latin America. The integration addresses regulatory clarity and builder needs in the region.

Artemis and Messari present data analytics platforms for Stellar ecosystem. Artemis offers Bloomberg-style crypto analytics with cross-chain comparisons and AI chat. Messari provides Portal for on-chain/off-chain data aggregation and AI Copilot for ecosystem research.

Sid from SDF presents three budget-friendly analytics approaches for Stellar Network data: Dune (paid tier starting $45/month), exporting Hubble data to DuckDB (~$4), and building local data pipelines with Stellar ETL. Protocol 23 launched on mainnet, enabling new token transfer data abstractions.

OpenZeppelin's Bojan discusses the Stellar Contracts Library, built in under a year with four audits completed. The library provides foundational smart contract tools including tokens, access controls, and innovative features like smart accounts with passkeys and real-world asset tokenization tailored for Soroban.

Stellar core developer discusses blockchain scalability through commutative APIs and parallel execution, presenting research on batch exchange markets and machine code smart contracts to enable orders of magnitude more on-chain computation without sacrificing decentralization.

DTCC executive Nadine discusses how DTCC Digital Assets, built on Securrency technology, is tokenizing U.S. markets and bridging traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure through open, interoperable platforms.

Franklin Templeton executive discusses the company's tokenization journey on Stellar, highlighting Benji, a tokenized U.S. government money market fund that enables peer-to-peer transfers and yield earning on chain.

Legal experts from the U.S. and Brazil discuss crypto regulation at Meridian 2025, covering the Genius Act for stablecoins, the Clarity Act, Brazil's Central Bank oversight framework, and how clear regulation can foster innovation while protecting investors.

Lee from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses three low-level features that power great developer tools: contract specs (embedded IDL), the Soroban runtime environment, and XDR JSON for readable transaction data.

Jose Pereira, newly appointed president and chief growth officer at SDF, discusses Stellar's positioning for enterprise adoption amid improving regulatory clarity. He emphasizes that uptime, compliance, and infrastructure matter more than speed and cost alone, and highlights the importance of maintaining decentralization while scaling.

Stellar Development Foundation presents confidential transfer protocol for Stellar blockchain, enabling encrypted transaction amounts and balances while maintaining regulatory compliance through selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs.

Charles from SDF and Fernanda from Cheesecake Labs discuss design decisions for Freighter and Akuna wallets, focusing on solving user adoption barriers through thoughtful UX rather than technology alone. Both wallets prioritize security, clarity, and accessibility for mainstream users entering the Stellar ecosystem.

OrbitLens presented Reflector, Stellar's decentralized oracle network that launched in April 2024 and now secures over $40M in TVL across DeFi protocols. The system operates via multi-sig consensus from seven organizations, offers on-chain price feeds and subscription services, and recently expanded governance through a DAO launched in December 2024.

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

Panel discussion on PayFi (payment finance) featuring leaders from Polyflow, Visa, ARF, and Masari exploring how stablecoin-based solutions can reduce cross-border payment costs from 4-6% to under 1% while addressing regulatory, infrastructure, and adoption challenges in global finance.

Stellar Development Foundation research team discusses performance and scalability improvements including JIT execution for Soroban contracts, parallel processing strategies, network overlay optimization, and consensus protocol enhancements targeting sub-second latency.