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Educational video introducing blockchain technology fundamentals, covering distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, smart contracts, and key advantages and limitations of blockchain systems.

Stellar Development Foundation Q4 2023 quarterly review covering 92 million payments processed, $1.3B in asset transaction volume, Soroban protocol 20 upgrade timeline (now targeting February 20), 100% project type representation in Soroban MVE, and 2024 roadmap focused on everyday financial services.

Aquarius presents its roadmap for building AMMs on Soroban, featuring constant product and stable swap models with customizable fees. The project seeks SCF 23 funding to complete smart contracts, interfaces, and documentation ahead of Soroban Phase 1 and 2 launch.

Muli Sagif, CEO of Certora, discusses formal verification for smart contracts and announces Soroban support for their verification platform at Meridian in Madrid. Certora is expanding beyond EVM to WebAssembly and Rust, bringing formal verification tooling to the Stellar ecosystem.

Aquarius submitted four smart contracts for Soroban mainnet testing and community feedback, including router, token, constant product, and stable swap pool contracts. The team aims to launch day one on Soroban mainnet with audits scheduled for next month.

Deep technical overview of Soroban's architecture, covering the host-guest boundary design, value types, host functions, contract storage, and resource metering that enable secure, performant smart contract execution on Stellar.

Julian Martinez and Chad from AHA Labs demonstrate how to build DeFi applications on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering liquidity pools, swaps, and TypeScript bindings for frontend integration.

Soroban smart contracts launch keynote covering three pillars: technical design decisions, 100+ ecosystem projects building on Soroban with 40 presenting, and cash-to-DeFi integration unlocking real-world asset connections.

Stellar ecosystem builders showcased 15+ projects at Meridian conference, including Comet AMM, EZA developer platform, Wavy P2P exchange, SubQuery indexer, Phoenix DEX, and infrastructure tools. Focus on DeFi primitives, real-world assets, and developer onboarding on Soroban.

Tomer from SDF and Deanne from Cubist discuss WebAssembly's role in Soroban smart contracts, covering design decisions around WASM 1.0, interpreter vs. compiler tradeoffs, Rust as the primary language, and security considerations for WASM runtimes.

Closing keynote from Meridian 2023 reflecting on Soroban's progress from preview to mainnet launch, ecosystem growth to 100+ projects, and the $100M Soroban Adoption Fund strategy for accelerating DeFi and financial inclusion.

Tomer from SDF presented Soroban, Stellar's new smart contracts platform built on WebAssembly and Rust. The talk covered Soroban's architecture, security tooling including a new Audit Bank and Certora partnership, and live demos of DeFi applications like Blend lending protocol and Beans app enabling cash-to-yield access.

Panel discussion on AMMs and swap functionality in Soroban ecosystem featuring builders from Phoenix, Soroswap, and Comment. Panelists discuss liquidity incentivization strategies, developer challenges, security considerations, impermanent loss mitigation, and the role of oracles and indexers in DeFi infrastructure.

Jisun from Vibrant demonstrates building an NFT smart contract on Soroban using Taylor Swift concert tickets as an example, covering contract initialization, minting, ownership checks, transfers, and testnet deployment.

Panel discussion on DAO governance solutions for Soroban featuring FXDAO, ElioDAO, CommunityDAO, and BlockScience. Panelists discuss native features, accessibility, and governance models tailored for emerging markets and community-driven protocols.

Tyler Vanderhoeven, developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation, demonstrates how to bridge Stellar assets into Soroban smart contracts using Stellar asset contracts, enabling seamless interoperability between the two layers.

Beans app integrates with Blend protocol to enable users to deposit stablecoins in lending pools and earn yield while maintaining a traditional banking UX. The integration allows seamless conversion between fiat and digital currencies with zero fees.

Panel discussion featuring founders of three Soroban lending protocols: Slender (compounded lending), Trilobyte (cash flow financing for Cuba), and XLR Labs (tokenized T-bills and repo lending). Speakers discuss how lending primitives drive DeFi ecosystem growth and financial inclusion.

Stellar Development Foundation held its Q3 2023 quarterly review, highlighting Soroban's arrival on testnet with protocol 20, the successful Meridian 2023 conference in Madrid, Circle's EuroCoin launch on Stellar, and MoneyGram's plans for a non-custodial wallet. The network saw 7.6 million total accounts and 76 million payments in Q3.

Fred from Lightmean demonstrates how to build Web3 games on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering gameplay validation, NFT rewards, in-game currency management, and Freighter wallet integration with a live pool physics game demo.

SDF Q2 2023 quarterly review covering Soroban smart contracts platform progress toward mainnet launch, MoneyGram access milestone reaching one year, Franklin Templeton's on-chain money fund surpassing $270M AUM, and ecosystem growth with 70+ projects building on Soroban.

Chad Ostrovsky from AhaLabs discusses smart contract developer tooling for Soroban, comparing Rust-based development approaches across Near, Soroban, and Cosmwasm. He explains Rain, an ABI system and interactive documentation tool, and explores the philosophy behind Soroban's no-std constraint and performance optimization.

Cubist co-founders Fraser Brown and Riyadh Wabi discuss their cross-chain dApp development toolkit, the state of zero-knowledge proofs, and why Soroban's testing infrastructure sets a new standard for blockchain developer experience.

Stellar Core developers discussed replacing the variable rent balance system with a fixed expiration ledger approach for state expiration. The new model simplifies user experience and downstream system integration by storing a single expiration ledger per entry instead of periodically deducting variable rent fees.