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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Soroban design discussion on state expiration and storage. Team proposes unified storage interface combining temporary and restorable entries with rent-based model, automatic rent bumps on access, and optional manual bumps. Short-term entries (15 min) charged at lower rate than long-term (30 days) to incentivize temporary storage use.

Stellar Development Foundation's Q1 2023 quarterly review covering network growth to 7.3M accounts, $419M relevant asset transaction volume, Sorobon smart contract platform progress with two preview releases, and ecosystem initiatives including the $100M Sorobon Adoption Fund supporting developer adoption.

Soroban Developer Workshop livestream featuring Paul from SDF and Morgan from useSoroban.app demonstrating how to write your first smart contract on Soroban, including Hello World examples and stateful contract development with storage operations.

SDF hosted the Stellar Community Fund 12 project pitch event featuring 10 Soroban and Stellar ecosystem projects presenting their proof of intent deliverables, including developer tools, DeFi protocols, infrastructure, and financial inclusion applications.

Stellar core developers discuss three approaches for storing scalable network configuration settings in dedicated ledger entries instead of the ledger header, with approach two using Soroban emerging as the preferred option for simplicity and flexibility.

Developer walkthrough of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, a Soroban smart contract coding game that teaches optimization through competitive challenges. The host covers the game engine, testing strategies, and Rust development practices for building efficient contracts.

Anke Liu from the Stellar Development Foundation presented updates to the Stellar Community Fund, announcing a new four-week submission cycle for awards up to $150,000 XLM, a virtual startup bootcamp launching in April, and a tiered verified member system with governance roles.