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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.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

Panel at ETHDenver2025 featuring Stellar Development Foundation's Tomer discussing how blockchain delivers real-world prosperity through financial inclusion, identity solutions, and governance. Speakers from Celo, Holonym, and Polkadot shared examples of on-chain adoption in emerging markets and challenges like on/off ramps and UX.

Blend Capital hosted a developer meeting showcasing Blend V2 security initiatives, including a $125,000 USDC competitive audit and formal verification competition. The first-ever open security competition in the Stellar ecosystem runs through March 17th, inviting developers to find bugs and write formal verification rules.

Ada Vaughan from Stellar Development Foundation discusses DeFi's real-world impact, highlighting practical use cases like supply chain financing and emerging market lending while acknowledging gaps between crypto enthusiasm and mainstream adoption.

OpenZeppelin releases preliminary Soroban smart contract libraries for Stellar, enabling developers to build token contracts in under 100 lines of code using audited, production-ready templates.

M Pouch is developing CSIM, a wallet interoperability module connecting Cardano and Stellar to solve blockchain fragmentation. The platform uses AI-driven automation and smart routing to enable seamless cross-chain asset transfers, targeting financial institutions and mobile money operators globally.

Litemint hosted the seventh edition of its on-chain gaming tournament, Cyber Brawl, featuring live gameplay of their card game with prize pools in XLM and USDC. The beta launch tournament showcased new mechanics like overclock and demonstrated Web3 gaming with digital asset ownership on Stellar.

Roberto Durski, Senior Director of Partnerships and RWA at Stellar, discusses the network's evolution over two years, covering smart contracts via Soroban, DeFi growth, stablecoins, real-world assets, and the regulatory landscape for CBDCs and tokenized finance.

Anke Liu, Ecosystem Growth Lead at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses financial inclusion efforts targeting 1.7 billion unbanked people globally, highlighting a collaboration with displaced Burmese communities across Southeast Asia using design jams and hackathons to develop accessible financial solutions.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP 67 on unified event emissions for classic and Soroban assets, and CAP 63 on parallel transaction execution via staged transaction sets with TTL update semantics changes.

Orbitlands presented Reflector, a decentralized oracle protocol for Stellar DeFi providing free on-chain price feeds updated every 5 minutes plus premium subscriptions with custom triggers. The team also showcased Refractor, a multisig transaction aggregator tool for DAO management and secure custody operations.

A diverse panel discusses blockchain's role in addressing global social challenges including poverty, healthcare, and environmental issues. Speakers from Partizia, Positive Blockchain, Algorand, MASPERS, and Stellar Development Foundation share real-world use cases ranging from humanitarian aid distribution to rural women's financial inclusion and climate finance.

Stellar Development Foundation CBO Raja Chakraborty discusses tokenization's role in financial inclusion and real-world blockchain adoption, highlighting partnerships with UNHCR and Franklin Templeton's Benji token that enable low-cost transactions and broad accessibility.

Stellar Development Foundation held Q4 2024 review webinar covering 18 billion total transactions, 9 million network addresses, $52 million smart contract TVL, and announced 2025 strategy focused on top-10 DeFi ranking, 5 million monthly active addresses, and $3 billion in real-world assets.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how Stellar's asset issuance and payment infrastructure is driving real-world adoption in aid distribution, cross-border payments, and tokenized real-world assets, with major partners like Franklin Templeton lowering barriers to entry.

Stellar protocol 23 introduces partial state archival (CAP 62) and in-memory Soroban state (CAP 66), separating live and archived contract data into distinct databases. Live Soroban state will be cached in memory with optimized fee structures, while automatic restore functionality eliminates the need for separate restore operations in most cases.

Stellar Development Foundation and Global Citizen launched the Acuna Wallet, a blockchain-powered digital wallet enabling African creators to receive payments from global platforms like YouTube and Spotify directly into U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, with pilot launch in Ghana.

Stellar DevRel team discusses 2025 priorities at their San Francisco offsite, highlighting focus on monthly active developers and daily smart contract invocations on Soroban. Key initiatives include passkeys, LaunchTube, and fun on-chain experiences to drive ecosystem growth.

Etherfuse CEO Dave Taylor discusses launching tokenized sovereign debt on Stellar, starting with US and Mexican treasuries and expanding to Brazilian and European bonds. The platform enables retail investors to earn yield on government bonds through blockchain, with plans to add African assets and integrate with DeFi protocols.

Stellar Development Foundation chief of staff discusses institutional adoption of blockchain at World Economic Forum, highlighting how Stellar enables institutions to process 50,000 transactions for $120 versus $50,000 traditionally, while emphasizing optimism around stablecoin legislation and regulatory clarity.

Herbal Karman from Huma and Tomer Weller from Stellar discuss PayFi, a new financial sector combining payment financing with blockchain. They cover the $2.8B in PayFi transactions, the six-layer OpenPayFi stack, and how Stellar's infrastructure powers real-world payment solutions globally.

Hoops Finance presented major UI overhaul and new features at Stellar dev meeting, including risk analytics dashboard, API with AI endpoints, and smart savings account contracts using Soroban for automated liquidity management.

Developer demonstrates how to write and deploy an NFT smart contract in Rust to Stellar's Soroban platform, covering contract structure, IPFS metadata storage, and deployment to testnet and mainnet with live minting examples.