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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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Garand from Stellar protocol team presents State Archival, a novel solution to state bloat that assigns TTL values to ledger entries, archives expired data off-chain in Merkle tries, and defends against double restore, malicious archival, and double nonce attacks. Implementation launched on mainnet in February 2025.

Tutorial on deploying a fungible token to Stellar's Soroban network using Rust and WebAssembly, including smart contract initialization, minting, transfers, and integration with Freighter wallet and a React dApp frontend.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, discusses SDF's mission to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology, emphasizing foundational infrastructure, strategic partnerships like MoneyGram and UNHCR, and the importance of regulatory engagement for sustainable growth.

Blue Orion presents a blockchain-based voting application built on Stellar that ensures transparent, immutable election results through election-specific tokens and channel accounts to prevent fraud.

Phoenix DeFi Hub completes Phase 1 on Soroban with live swap and LP functionality. The team is now applying for Phase 2 funding to add routing APIs, fiat onramps via Kato, SubQuery integration, and a public data API for the Stellar ecosystem.

Nicola Dare from SDF explains oracles and the oracle problem in smart contracts. She covers oracle types (software, hardware, cross-chain, compute-enabled), decentralization levels, and how leading oracles solve the challenge of maintaining blockchain security and trustlessness when accessing off-chain data.

Lisa Nestor, Research Director at Stanford's Future of Digital Currency Initiative, discusses digital assets' role in financial inclusion, stable coin adoption in emerging markets like Argentina, CBDC development, and emerging opportunities in real-world asset tokenization and the digital dollar economy.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector, a price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering a dev contest with XRF token rewards, boilerplate code for cross-contract calls, testing with ledger snapshots, and a predictive market example built on oracle data.