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StellarQuest bootcamp walkthrough covering wallet setup with Albedo, account creation on Stellar testnet, and payment transactions using Stellar Lab. Participants earned NFTs by completing each mission step.

Kyle and Pedro discuss Stellar adoption in Latin America, developer support programs, and community-driven projects. Kyle leads the Stellar Ambassador Program in Brazil and founded NearX, a blockchain developer training company. Pedro is building a gamified learning platform for Rust and Soroban development.

Carlos from Flipside discusses how on-chain analytics and data curation drive blockchain ecosystem growth, focusing on metrics like TVL, user engagement scores, and protocol differentiation to help communities understand and optimize their on-chain activity.

Developer builds AI-powered MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on Cloudflare that dynamically exposes Stellar smart contract interfaces to LLMs, enabling voice-controlled token deployment and contract interaction without manual signing or XLM management.

Stellar DevX team showcased new Stellar Lab features for smart contracts, including contract explorer, storage management, and an upcoming invoke contract UI. OpenZeppelin presented a new upgradeable smart contract standard (SAP) for Soroban.

Garen Tyson from SDF explains state archival, Stellar's solution to blockchain state bloat. The protocol uses rent-based storage fees and Merkle proofs to archive inactive entries, reducing validator costs while maintaining security and user experience through RPC abstraction.

Nick Neumann demonstrates building remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers on Cloudflare to enable AI models like Claude to interact with Stellar smart contracts dynamically, including deploying tokens and managing transactions through smart wallets without storing secret keys.

Palta Labs presented ZoroSwap, a decentralized exchange (AMM) built on Stellar's Soroban, demonstrating token swaps, liquidity pools, and smart contract architecture. The team discussed DeFi opportunities on Stellar and answered questions about integration, wallet support, and yield strategies.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Wall Street's adoption of blockchain for tokenization, stablecoin regulation, and Stellar's work delivering aid globally. Franklin Templeton's money market fund on Stellar reduced entry barriers from $2,500 to $25, while the UN uses Stellar's disbursement tool to deliver refugee aid in minutes.

Tori Samples from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses the Stellar Disbursement Platform, a bulk payments tool enabling organizations to send up to 10,000 transactions in a single batch to recipients worldwide using stablecoins, with a live demo showing how recipients claim funds through integrated wallets.

BP Ventures demonstrates their white-label self-custodial wallet built on Stellar, featuring email/social login via SEP-30, multi-language support, fiat onramps through anchors like Crossbridge and MoneyGram, and asset swapping via ICE.

Paltalabs team presents DeFi products built on Stellar, including ZoroSwap DEX and Defindex protocol, while discussing blockchain fundamentals, developer opportunities through Stellar Community Fund grants up to $150k, and real-world applications like music tokenization via SkyHits.

Bastian, a designer and entrepreneur in the Stellar ecosystem for 7 years, presents a design thinking framework for transforming ideas into minimum viable products (MVPs) that can integrate with Stellar blockchain. The session covers five stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and evaluate, with practical tools and no-code solutions.

Equitex, a DeFi platform built on Stellar, is running a testnet airdrop campaign with three completion levels. Users can earn XP points through social tasks like Twitter engagement to qualify for rewards, with less competition than typical airdrops.

Tutorial on deploying factory/deployer contracts on Soroban that enable creating unlimited smart contract instances from a single parent contract, covering implementation, testing, and deployment steps.

Tomer from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses how Stellar's new smart contracts VM enables a DeFi ecosystem that bridges traditional finance and crypto, emphasizing financial inclusion, developer security support, and bottom-up innovation over waiting for institutional adoption.

A deep dive into Kale, a proof-of-teamwork mining token on Stellar that uses hash mining, staking, and time gaps to distribute rewards. The speaker demonstrates how invocation counts have grown dramatically post-launch, discusses technical challenges like failed transactions and surge pricing, and shows how to set up a Kale farmer on a Raspberry Pi.

Stellar Development Foundation leaders discuss Soroban smart contracts, the anchor network with MoneyGram integration, DeFi ecosystem growth, and the Stellar Community Fund's grant program. Runtime Verification auditors highlight the quality of Soroban's Rust codebase and unique design features like state archival and batteries-included developer experience.

Tutorial on setting up and configuring a C++ GPU/CPU miner for the Kale protocol, covering compilation, build options, configuration settings, and farming strategies.

OpenZeppelin announces a two-year partnership with Stellar to improve developer experience through Soroban contract libraries, the OpenZeppelin Wizard for Stellar, and developer tooling including relayers, monitors, and code analysis.

Orbit Lens presented Stellar Broker, a multi-source liquidity swap router addressing fragmented liquidity across classic Stellar and Soroban protocols, plus updates to Stellar Expert's smart contract analysis and transaction tracking features.

Day two of Stellar DevComp focused on Rust fundamentals for Soroban smart contract development. Instructor covered data types, variables, functions, and the ownership model that makes Rust ideal for blockchain applications.

OpenZeppelin's contract wizard now integrates Stellar contracts, enabling Soroban developers to generate smart contract code through a simple point-and-click interface. This integration marks a major milestone for developer tooling in the Stellar ecosystem.

Anna Whitson-Diaz from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses Stellar's focus on financial inclusion and humanitarian aid delivery. The SDF has partnered with UNHCR to deliver direct cash assistance using blockchain technology, distributing over $5 million to Ukrainian refugees.