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Mule Fahreau discusses formal verification best practices for Soroban smart contracts, covering code modularity, AI-assisted refactoring, and combining AI with formal verification tools to improve security and auditability.

Michael from SDF leads a panel discussion on the malicious mindset in security, exploring how questioning assumptions and thinking like an attacker helps build better, more secure products in the Stellar ecosystem.

Okiki, PM for Freighter, announced Freighter Mobile, a new reference wallet for Stellar and Soroban now live on iOS and Android. The app features a Discover tab for dApps, SEP50 NFT support, Blockade integration for transaction security, and SEP53 message signatures for safe smart contract interactions.

Three venture capital firms investing in the Stellar ecosystem discuss their investment thesis for early-stage blockchain startups, emphasizing founder quality, execution ability, and sustainable revenue over roadmap promises.

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.

Jose Pereira, newly appointed president and chief growth officer at SDF, discusses Stellar's positioning for enterprise adoption amid improving regulatory clarity. He emphasizes that uptime, compliance, and infrastructure matter more than speed and cost alone, and highlights the importance of maintaining decentralization while scaling.

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.

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.

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.

Institutional leaders from Fidelity, S&P Global, and the Stellar Development Foundation discuss barriers to institutional RWA adoption at the Brooklyn summit. Panelists identify regulated custody standards, on-chain compliance automation, distribution mechanisms via yield-bearing stablecoins, and policy clarity as critical requirements for bringing digital assets into traditional finance at scale.

Numix presented the Diamond Proxy Standard for Soroban, enabling upgradable smart contracts with shared storage. This allows asset managers to deploy on-chain without immutability constraints, addressing regulatory compliance needs for real-world asset tokenization on Stellar.

Protocol enhancement proposals for Stellar's Soroban smart contracts: CAP 71 introduces delegated authentication to simplify multi-signer logic, CAP 72 adds contract signers to classic accounts, and CAP 73 enables trust line creation from Soroban.

OpenZeppelin developer Steve Sinkens demonstrates monitors and relayers, open-source backend services for Stellar smart contracts. Monitors watch contracts and trigger notifications; relayers execute transactions on-chain based on custom rules. Both tools are essential for Meridian hackathon participants building on Soroban.

A podcast episode explores the remittance market from the US to Latin America, focusing on why immigrants prefer physical money transfer stores despite available digital options. Felix Pago uses a Spanish-speaking WhatsApp chatbot powered by stablecoins on the Stellar blockchain to enable fast, cheap cross-border payments to Mexico. The service abstracts crypto complexity, building trust through familiar interfaces while leveraging blockchain for efficiency.

XBid AI demonstrates its flexible plugin system for data injection, showing how Reflector oracles feed price data to the AI agent on Stellar. The system normalizes prices and exposes observables like slope and freshness for strategies to consume.

A yield farming strategy tutorial demonstrating how to boost USDC yields from 16% to over 38% on Stellar by combining Blend lending, XLM borrowing, FxDAO collateralization, and looping cycles.

Esteban Iglesias from Paltolabs presents SourceSwap and DeFindex, two major DeFi protocols on Stellar. SourceSwap is a DEX aggregator that routes trades across multiple liquidity sources via smart contracts and APIs, while DeFindex enables wallets and fintech apps to offer yield-generating savings accounts through automated DeFi strategies.

BP Ventures proposes integrating Mesh Network with anchor infrastructure to enable seamless funding from 300+ crypto exchanges to any Stellar wallet, requesting $60,000 from the Stellar Community Fund to remove barriers for 100 million users.

Near Protocol launches Intense cross-chain swaps on Stellar, enabling seamless native asset exchanges across 20+ chains without bridges. The integration went live August 19th and allows users to swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin, XRP, and other assets directly to XLM and USDC on Stellar with a single click.

Near Intense, a multi-chain transaction protocol, has integrated with Stellar, enabling developers to bridge assets from over 100 blockchains into Stellar applications. The integration uses a one-click API for seamless cross-chain swaps and asset bridging.

Developer explores building verifiable, unhackable games using zero-knowledge proofs on Stellar, focusing on a Pong game integrated with Blend protocol's fee vault to distribute yield to game winners.

Developer builds a decentralized chat web app using Soroban smart contracts and speech-to-text API. The 13-line contract stores messages as on-chain events, eliminating need for traditional servers or databases.

Tutorial on earning passive income with XLM using FXDAO stablecoin minting and Blend Capital lending pools. Demonstrates strategies combining collateralized stablecoin generation with yield farming to generate 19-75% returns on deposited XLM.