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Stellar Development Foundation and Blockchain Acceleration Foundation showcase Impacta Bootcamp, Código Alebrije hackathon, and acceleration program results in LATAM, featuring 16 projects building on Stellar with mentorship and grants.

Industry leaders discuss how tokenized assets remain unproductive on-chain due to lack of distribution, composability, and integration. Key solutions include omni-chain strategies, interoperability standards, privacy protocols, and vault-based yield mechanisms to unlock capital utility.

Documentary exploring how stablecoins facilitate cross-border trade in Nigeria's informal electronics market, where merchants bypass traditional banking to access dollars for imports from China.

Tomer Weller, CPO at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses configurable privacy as the key to institutional blockchain adoption. Privacy pools and confidential tokens enable selective data protection while preserving transparency, with implementations like Stellar Private Payments now live and expected institutional adoption in 2026.

Stellar Community Fund March Demo Day showcased five mainnet projects: DevAssign (automated code review and bounty payments), Reflektor (oracle price feeds), Versprop (tokenized real estate finance), Blocksmith (Soroban development framework), and Zenix (perpetual futures exchange). All projects received BUILD awards up to $150,000 and are live on mainnet.

Stanford researcher Lisa Nestor analyzed 41 million USDC transactions on Airtm to measure stablecoin performance in cross-border payments. The data shows 96% settlement within one hour, competitive fees for micropayments, and strong evidence that open networks deliver better outcomes than closed systems.

Developer shares experience building Rhythm Slice, a Guitar Hero-style pizza game with zero-knowledge privacy contracts on Stellar, created during a gaming-focused hackathon using AI agents Claude and Anthropic to handle smart contract development and UI implementation.

Khan from SDF presents an AI resources guide for the Hack Plus Alep Rej hackathon in Mexico City, covering free AI setup, developer tools, composable protocol integration, and best practices for building on Stellar with AI assistance.

Khan from SDF presents an AI resources guide for the Hack Plus Alep Rej hackathon in Mexico City, covering free AI setup, dev tools, composable protocol integration, and starter prompts to accelerate Stellar development.

A discussion on how blockchain technology and tokenization can preserve and verify the provenance of cultural artifacts and artworks, using examples from Colombian museums and art collections.

Developer showcases Kalion, a zero-knowledge proof-based Asteroids game on Stellar that enables off-chain computation with on-chain verification. The project demonstrates how ZK proofs can handle complex, computationally intensive tasks like 60 FPS gameplay over 10 minutes, proving fair play while minting Kalean tokens to winners.

Findx hosts Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet discussing formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and lessons from a recent DeFi incident on Stellar.

Findx hosted Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet. Discussion covered formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and the recent price manipulation incident on Stellar's DEX.

Speaker discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, arguing that Stellar's infrastructure is uniquely positioned to enable autonomous agents to conduct transactions, hold funds, and earn revenue independently on-chain.

A Stellar ecosystem developer discusses ideation strategies for new projects, emphasizing privacy solutions as underrated opportunities. They highlight the updated documentation, new AI building resources, and the ecosystem resources repository as essential starting points for developers.

Stellar Journey to Mastery is a developer program offering monthly builder challenges and mentorship to help experienced developers turn ideas into real projects on Stellar, with hands-on support for technical decisions and project advancement.

Elliott Voris from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the regional starter pack, a toolkit for developers building on Stellar in Mexico. The pack includes resources for discovering anchors like Etherfuse, working demo code, and a TypeScript library that abstracts anchor APIs to simplify on and off-ramp integration.

Khan from the Stellar Development Foundation introduces Stellar Journey to Mastery, a monthly builder challenge program designed to help developers move beyond tutorials and start building real Web3 projects with community support and feedback.

Elliott Voris from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the regional starter pack, a toolkit for developers building on Stellar in Mexico. The pack includes anchor integration resources, a working demo, and TypeScript libraries that simplify on/off-ramp functionality with partners like Etherfuse, BlindPay, and AlphaPay.

Type Zero is a web3 typing game built on Stellar that uses RISC Zero's ZKVM to generate zero-knowledge proofs verifying game scores on-chain. All game logic is deterministic and verified through Soroban smart contracts, eliminating trust in frontend or backend.

A documentary-style introduction to Medellín's emerging web3 and blockchain innovation ecosystem, exploring how the city is becoming a hub for builders experimenting with decentralized finance and digital asset ownership.

Arnald from Quantos Payments discusses their regulated e-money and stablecoin platform built on public blockchains. The Dutch-regulated fintech focuses on solving cross-border B2B settlement costs and liquidity challenges for corporates, platforms, and AI agents, recently becoming a Visa principal member.

Tutorial demonstrating how to write zero-knowledge circuits in Noir, compile them to R1CS, generate Groth16 proofs with Snark.js, and verify them on Stellar blockchain via smart contracts.

Stellar is building improved onboarding solutions using Passkeys and Wallet Kit to eliminate seed phrases and complex wallet setup, enabling Web3 adoption at scale with Web2-like user experience while maintaining cryptographic security.