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Tamer from SDF and Heymanth from Goldsky demonstrate building data indexers on Stellar to track asset movements and circulating supply. They present two approaches: the open-source Stellar Composable Data Platform for custom indexing, and Goldsky Mirror for managed, simplified data pipelines.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

Enrique shares his four-year journey building wallets in Stellar, discussing why smart wallets matter for user adoption and announcing XBull V2, which combines classic account benefits with smart wallet features using passkey authentication.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

Sergey Nazarov discusses how de-globalization and local instability are driving crypto adoption, emphasizing that reliable oracles, cross-chain bridges, and real-world asset tokenization are critical for blockchain ecosystems to succeed at scale.

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.

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.

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.

NetherMind's ZK engineering team presented a privacy solution for Stellar using zero-knowledge proofs and privacy pools with regulatory compliance, addressing the blockchain's transparency-by-design limitation while enabling opt-in privacy for users.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference in Rio on real-world asset tokenization. Speakers from WisdomTree, Red Swan CRE, R-Chats, and Kymeta discuss RWA market growth from $30B on-chain, regulatory progress, and the importance of DeFi utility for driving adoption beyond money markets and treasuries.

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.

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.

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.

Tyler from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses how AI fundamentally changes software development economics and why Stellar is uniquely positioned to secure an AI-driven future through cryptographic safeguards and zero-knowledge proofs.

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.

Beans, Blend, and DeFindex collaborate to enable non-custodial yield earning for everyday users. The integration abstracts DeFi complexity, allowing Beans users to earn 10x+ bank rates on stablecoins through automated Blend lending strategies without seeing gas fees or technical details.

Brazilian Central Bank, fintech leaders, and development bank officials discuss CBDC, tokenization, and blockchain adoption in Brazil. Focus on cooperation between public and private sectors, financial inclusion through PIX, and lessons learned from blockchain pilots.

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.

Marta from Stellar Core team discusses 2025 scalability achievements, including background transaction processing, parallel Soroban execution, and theoretical throughput nearly doubling to over 2400 TPS. The team is experimenting with consensus-execution pipelining to further increase throughput while maintaining latency.

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.

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.

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.

Meridian Pay is a Stellar Smart Wallet built by SDF and Cheesecake Labs that delivers Web2-like UX on mainnet. It uses passkeys for passwordless authentication, Merkle trees for efficient token distribution, and the wallet backend for fee sponsorship and transaction indexing.