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Vivo from Ahlabs demonstrates Scaffold Stellar, a comprehensive developer framework for building on Stellar and Soroban. The tool includes CLI plugins, contract templates, local deployment, TypeScript client generation, and an integrated contract explorer frontend.

Alex from Script3 provides a comprehensive overview of Blend, a liquidity protocol primitive on Stellar that enables permissionless lending markets with flexible parameters, backstop insurance modules, and multiple integration points for developers building on Soroban.

A guide to earning money on Stellar through DeFi platforms including Aquarius liquidity rewards, Blend Capital lending, Dogster prediction league, and Phoenix DeFi hub, with the creator sharing personal earnings of 10% monthly APY from Aquarius.

Candace Kelly, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how blockchain technology enables faster, cheaper cross-border payments for humanitarian aid and frontline workers. The Stellar Disbursement Platform has helped UNHCR distribute $5 million to 2,500 Ukrainian families and supports GIZ in paying conflict zone workers, while addressing regulatory challenges and scalability barriers.

Société Générale Forge and Upheaval discuss issuing bank-backed stablecoins on Stellar, covering regulatory compliance, ecosystem partnerships, and DeFi integration challenges for institutional asset issuers.

Teague from SDF's dev marketing team provides a recap of Day 5 of the Stellar Builder Summit in Toronto, highlighting presentations, a hackathon with builders working late into the night, go-karting, and upcoming events including a baseball game.

Stellar and La Nube Cowork, a workspace in Valdivia, Chile, announced a partnership to create a space for blockchain education and community building in Latin America. The alliance aims to increase awareness of Stellar and decentralized technology across the region.

Scaffold Stellar is a new developer tool from Aha Labs that provides a ready-to-use web3 app template for building on Stellar. It includes contract examples, wallet integration, and local network setup to eliminate boilerplate and accelerate dApp development.

Turkish podcast discussion about a hackathon-winning Web2/Web3 social media application project. Founders discuss their vision of creating a social platform that integrates blockchain without forcing users into Web3-only experiences.

Dove Protocol, a Stellar-based platform, tokenizes real-world infrastructure revenue using AI agents and blockchain. The team announced their Early Investor program offering free access to tokenized electric vehicle chargers with revenue sharing, plus a Draper University fellowship.

Scaffold Stellar by AHA Labs is a Rust-based development framework that provides a complete boilerplate for building Soroban smart contracts with pre-integrated frontend wallet support, enabling developers to initialize projects, deploy contracts, and iterate in real-time.

Stellar ecosystem recap from Istanbul covering Berlin Blockchain Week, the Istanbul hackathon with 67 submissions, Beans Earn integration with Blend, DeFi Index launch, Scaffold Stellar updates, and upcoming Hack Meridian in Rio de Janeiro with 50K in prizes.

Panel discussion on stablecoin adoption drivers featuring leaders from Stellar Development Foundation, Squads, and Greenfield Capital. Panelists project stablecoin market growth to 500 billion to 1 trillion USD within 18 months, driven by institutional adoption, regulatory clarity, and real-world use cases like B2B payments and treasury management.

Freelee pivoted from a Telegram chatbot remittance app to a B2B payout management system after user research in the Philippines revealed that businesses, not individuals, had the real pain point. The team now uses Stellar's fast, low-cost transactions to help companies automate payouts to freelancers and gig workers.

Rob Dursk from Stellar discusses how blockchain infrastructure can improve traditional finance, particularly for emerging markets. He explains that while Bitcoin's primary goal of creating an alternative currency has limited adoption, blockchain's real value lies in enabling atomic settlement and efficient cross-border capital flows for regulated assets like government bonds, real estate, and private credit.

Ambassador from Chile built a unified onboarding application for Stellar that streamlines wallet creation via phone number OTP, includes token distribution incentives, and provides educational resources to help new users enter the ecosystem.

Tutorial on building a custom stablecoin on Soroban using OpenZeppelin contracts. The creator demonstrates how to create a SEP41 token called JUSD that accepts USDC deposits and mints a corresponding stablecoin in a 1:1 ratio, using a new online IDE.

Stellar Development Foundation announced PYUSD, PayPal's stablecoin, will launch on Stellar this summer. Danelle Dixon discussed how this partnership enables low-fee cross-border payments and financial services for underbanked populations globally.

Orbit CDP is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on Stellar's Blend that lets users mint collateralized stablecoins for any currency with a price feed, from Mexican pesos to Brazilian reals. The team is launching with blind pay integration for zero-fee on/off-ramping and building Hermes, a perpetual exchange for FX trading.

Dogstar is a DeFi learning platform built on Stellar that lets users practice trading and earn rewards risk-free through the Dogstar League competitive game, featuring a non-custodial wallet, decentralized exchange, and liquidity pools.

Toma Weller, CPO at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how Stellar powers real-world finance through native cash-to-DeFi experiences, institutional partnerships like MoneyGram, and the launch of Soroban smart contracts platform with focus on security, developer experience, and privacy solutions.

Sertora presents Sunbeam, a formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts that uses SMT solvers to mathematically prove code correctness against specifications written in Rust, enabling developers to catch bugs early in the development cycle.

Developer migrates a Solidity perpetual futures contract to Soroban using AI tools, walking through the differences between EVM and Rust/WebAssembly development, contract simplification, and debugging with unit tests.

Tutorial on using OpenZeppelin's Monitor software to track USDC transfers on the Stellar network and send real-time notifications to Telegram. Covers setup, configuration, contract interaction, and bot integration.