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Aaron Tyson from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Bucket List DB, a next-generation database replacing SQL for Stellar Core storage. The new system reduces disk usage by 50%, improves read performance 2.6-4.2x, and eliminates data duplication while maintaining fast hashing for consensus.

Sorbonne Talks stream featuring Stellar Development Foundation developers demonstrating Gitpod instant dev environment for Soroban smart contract development, showing how to build, test, and deploy contracts on Futurenet with minimal setup.

Hidenori Shinohara from Stellar's core team discusses Pull Mode, a new transaction broadcasting optimization that removes duplicate messages across the network. Simulations showed TPS improved from 326 to 563 transactions per second, a 73% increase.

Paul from SDF presents Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, covering environment setup, hello world examples, and a full crowdfunding dapp. Soroban enables programmable token control and reliable neutrality through on-chain code, with deployment available now on FutureNet.

Helgaard from Reive presents their fintech app builder platform that enables founders to launch financial products without building from scratch. Reive provides white-label wallet infrastructure, compliance through Wire integration, and Stellar network support to reduce time and cost to market for emerging fintech businesses.

Researcher from Red Bay Network presents scientific analysis of blockchain transaction throughput (TPS) claims versus real-world performance, revealing significant gaps between announced metrics and observed results across major blockchains including Algorand, Avalanche, and Solana.

Stellar Development Foundation announces the Anchor Platform, a new open-source tool designed to simplify anchor deployment on the Stellar network. The platform reduces setup complexity and costs, enabling businesses to connect payment infrastructure with minimal development effort.

Fabrice Deltrian, Head of Developer Ecosystem at Ledger, discusses how Ledger supports Stellar and other blockchains through open developer partnerships. Ledger recently added Stellar asset support to Ledger Live and is preparing for Soroban smart contracts integration.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing three CAPs for native smart contracts: CAP 53 on smart contract data storage with static footprints and deterministic scheduling, CAP 52 on minimal smart contract interactions shifting authorization to contracts, and CAP 47 on contract lifecycle including mutability and versioning questions.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts protocol meeting to discuss Project Jump Cannon, which brings WebAssembly-based smart contracts to Stellar. The team presents CAP 46, a foundational proposal defining the host/guest execution model and data structures for smart contract runtime.

Jake Urban from SDF discusses anchors and interoperability on Stellar, explaining how anchors bridge off-chain and on-chain value through standardized protocols (SEPs). He introduces the upcoming Stellar Anchor Platform, a language-agnostic service designed to simplify anchor deployment and reduce implementation barriers for businesses.

Script3 discusses building YieldBlocks, a money market protocol on Stellar using Stellar Turrets for off-chain smart contract execution. The team explains their journey from options trading to recognizing the need for liquidity infrastructure, and how Turrets enable DeFi applications on Stellar.

Eric Saunders from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses Horizon's evolution from 2015 to present, covering the ingestion rebuild in v1.0, the Captive Core innovation in v2.0, and future scaling plans including tiered data storage and federated search.

Lee McCulloch and Alex Sharbena from the Stellar Development Foundation presented Starlight, a layer-2 payment channel protocol enabling millions of transactions per second off-chain while maintaining security through CAP-21 and CAP-40 protocol upgrades.

George from SDF's Horizon team demonstrates how to use Stellar SDKs by building a game that decodes XDR transactions, claims claimable balances, and streams payments as incoming attacks. The talk covers the three-layer SDK abstraction pyramid: cryptography/XDR, transaction building, and Horizon API querying.

Austin Rice and Marta Lakova from the Stellar Development Foundation deliver a technical deep dive into how Stellar works, comparing its federated Byzantine agreement consensus to Bitcoin and Ethereum's proof of work, then demonstrate asset issuance on the Stellar testnet using Stellar Laboratory.

Ji Sun from Vibrant discusses the wallet's KYC journey, comparing SEP24 (hosted deposit/withdrawal) with SEP12/SEP6 (custom KYC UI). Vibrant switched to SEP12/SEP6 for better user control, clearer branding, and improved analytics, achieving 10-second average KYC verification times.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Stellar Turrets, a decentralized transaction creation and signing protocol that enables DeFi applications on Stellar by removing the need for centralized intermediaries to control accounts.

Marta Lakova explains StellarCore's architecture, covering the consensus protocol, ledger state management, and how data flows across the Stellar network. The presentation details how StellarCore maintains distributed agreement on transactions, closes ledgers every five seconds with finality, and enables new nodes to catch up via history archives.

Jeff Ramsire presents SpeedX, a scalable batch-based DEX design that eliminates front-running, optimizes liquidity across asset pairs, and enables parallelizable transaction processing. The system could integrate into Stellar to support efficient cross-border payments at scale.

Stellar Open Protocol discussion on CAP 21, which enables payment channels on Stellar for off-chain transactions and improved network throughput. The CAP is moving forward to the committee for approval after technical revisions and validation experiments.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF walks through Stellar development fundamentals, covering the Stellar stack, SDKs, transaction building with JavaScript, and delegated signing with Albedo wallet for non-custodial key management.

Nikhil Saraf from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Kelp, an automated trading bot that solves liquidity problems on Stellar's decentralized exchange by enabling market makers, traders, and anchors to create instant liquidity across asset pairs.

Jake Urban from SDF presents Polaris, an extendable Django application that simplifies building modular Stellar anchor services. Polaris implements common anchor functionality while allowing developers to customize and extend it for their specific needs, supporting SEP 6, 24, and 31 protocols.