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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tutorial on building and deploying Soroban tokens using OpenZeppelin Contract Wizard, which now supports Stellar. Demonstrates creating a fungible token contract with customizable features like minting, burning, and pausing, then deploying it to testnet in minutes.

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.

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.

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.

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.