Watch + listen

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tori Samples, director of product at SDF, explores why trustlessness is a false narrative and how cultivating explicit trust models is essential for building Web3 ecosystems. She examines trust through personal, institutional, and technological lenses, then demonstrates how Stellar's proof-of-agreement consensus and real-world partnerships create trustworthy financial infrastructure for billions globally.

Enzo and Fifro from Aha Labs discuss Moonlight, a non-custodial privacy protocol for Stellar, alongside David from LumenShade, which uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy pools. Both projects aim to enable private payments on Stellar while maintaining compliance with regulations.

Protocol 23 launches September 3rd, enabling parallel transaction processing on Stellar mainnet. Soroban smart contracts gain faster memory access and lower execution costs, while unified events improve wallet and explorer compatibility.

Stellar launches Audit Bank, a community initiative providing developers with subsidized security audits from leading firms. Projects pay only 5% upfront, refundable if critical bugs are fixed within 20 days, with follow-up audits free after reaching $10M-$100M TVL milestones.

Tomer Weller, CPO of Stellar, discusses the implementation of smart contracts via Soroban, the network's consensus mechanism, and upcoming innovations including scalability improvements and privacy solutions to support institutional adoption.

Stellar Development Foundation reports strong Q2 2025 progress toward 10x growth goals: TVL reached $153M (rank 37 on DeFi Llama), PayPal's PYUSD launching on Stellar, RWAs at $496M yield-bearing assets, and Protocol 23 upgrade shipping in September with major scalability improvements.

Stellar Foundation and Veridice discuss the Stellar Security Audit Bank, a program providing free security audits to Soroban developers. The initiative aims to make security proactive rather than reactive, with audits funded through the Stellar Community Fund for qualifying DeFi protocols.

DevRel team member shares practical AI coding workflow using tools like Lovable, Cursor, and Claude to build faster. Demonstrates one-shotting an Asteroids game, discusses MCP servers for context, and explores AI agents for autonomous development.

Freely built a payout system on Stellar that lets businesses split payments across multiple recipients in different countries. Using smart wallets, policy signers, and anchors, the team created a secure, low-cost solution for remittances and bulk disbursements, launching mainnet in approximately two months.

Flipside Crypto launches incentivized quests on Stellar to onboard DeFi users. Complete tasks like swapping USDC for XLM, depositing into liquidity pools on Aquarius, and lending on Blend to earn rewards while experiencing Stellar's low-cost, fast transactions.

Tutorial demonstrating how to build a passkey-enabled smart wallet application on Stellar using PasskeyKit, enabling biometric authentication and decentralized user credential systems without centralized backends.

Tutorial on earning passive income on Stellar by combining Blend lending protocol with Aquarius liquidity rewards. Shows how to supply XLM to Blend, borrow stablecoins, and participate in high-yield Aquarius pools without selling your XLM holdings.