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Chad Oh from The Aha Company presents Scaffold Stellar, a rapid application development tool for building Stellar dApps with smart defaults and minimal setup. The talk covers the Stellar Scaffold CLI for project initialization and the Stellar Registry for publishing and managing WASM binaries on-chain.

OpenZeppelin's Bojan discusses the Stellar Contracts Library, built in under a year with four audits completed. The library provides foundational smart contract tools including tokens, access controls, and innovative features like smart accounts with passkeys and real-world asset tokenization tailored for Soroban.

MoneyGram launches next-generation app in Colombia enabling instant USDC transfers on Stellar blockchain, positioning itself as the largest crypto cash on/off ramp bridging physical and digital payments for financial inclusion.

Artemis and Messari present data analytics platforms for Stellar ecosystem. Artemis offers Bloomberg-style crypto analytics with cross-chain comparisons and AI chat. Messari provides Portal for on-chain/off-chain data aggregation and AI Copilot for ecosystem research.

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.

Lucien from Boundless and Matteo from NetherMind demonstrate how to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Stellar via Boundless, enabling privacy, removing transaction limits, and unlocking new DeFi applications like private AMMs through verifiable off-chain computation.

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.

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.

Civitas ID, a human-centered digital identity system for displaced persons and refugees, is being built on Stellar to solve the invisibility crisis affecting 123 million displaced people globally. The platform aims to bridge humanitarian aid dependency into formal economic participation through portable, verifiable credentials.

Panel discussion on PayFi (payment finance) featuring leaders from Polyflow, Visa, ARF, and Masari exploring how stablecoin-based solutions can reduce cross-border payment costs from 4-6% to under 1% while addressing regulatory, infrastructure, and adoption challenges in global finance.

Near Protocol's Dejan Radic presented Near Intents, an intent-driven cross-chain swap protocol that recently integrated Stellar. The system enables fast, low-cost cross-chain transactions through a market maker model, with Stellar seeing approximately 200k cumulative volume since integration on August 19th.

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.

In a fireside chat at a Stellar event, Tomer from Stellar Development Foundation interviews Simon Baxes from Layer 0 about their upcoming integration, making Stellar the 143rd chain connected to Layer 0's cross-chain messaging protocol. Layer 0, handling 82% of cross-chain messaging volume and $10B monthly, enables native asset transfers for issuers like Tether and PayPal without wrapping risks. The integration promises sub-second, gasless swaps and universal interoperability, supercharging Stellar's payments and finance ecosystem.

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.

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

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.

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.

Francesco from Almanacs discusses AI-powered security tools for blockchain, highlighting how AI-generated code increases attack surface and why traditional security tools fall short. Almanacs launches in the Stellar Audit Bank to provide subsidized security scans for Soroban projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.