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Weekly show Onchain Africa interviews Koxy, co-founder of Choppaddi, a Stellar-based food and grocery delivery platform serving Africa. Discussion explores blockchain payments, creator economy infrastructure, and multi-currency transaction options for vendors and riders across West Africa.

Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator cohort showcase featuring 10 hand-selected teams building real financial infrastructure on Stellar. Teams span payments, remittances, wallets, FX, and trade finance, with demo presentations from founders including Remi (privacy-enabled remittances) and Yolot (multi-currency payments for global Africans).

Sabrina is an Indonesian developer and college student building Olio, a private USDC payment app for freelancers and creators. She discovered Stellar through the Indonesia Bootcamp and Rise In's support. Olio won first place in the payment track at the APEX Stellar hackathon, and the team is now shipping to real users.

Vietnamese team SEI Lab discusses Family Haven, a non-custodial wallet for families built on Soroban. The product addresses $7 billion in elderly asset losses through guardian protection and recovery features, deployed on testnet. Team won third prize at the APAC Hackathon.

Offer Hub's SCF #44 demo shows a non-custodial marketplace implementation using Stellar Wallets Kit. The walkthrough covers wallet registration, multi-wallet account management, real-time on-chain balance reading via Horizon, and passwordless wallet-based login supporting Freighter, Lobster, and xBull.

Stellar Developers Meeting 08/20 covers wallet infrastructure integration for dApp developers. Host Kahn (SDF Developer Advocate) walks through six different approaches: Stellar Wallet Kit, Blux (email/social), Privy, Para, Passkey Kit, and Smart Account Kit. Learn configuration gotchas, when each auth pattern fits your app's UX, and upcoming Protocol 28 testnet upgrade.

Emin Kargöz (Kaptan), a developer from Turkey, traces his path into blockchain from initial curiosity about the technology to becoming an active Stellar ecosystem builder. Hackathons proved the turning point, offering deadline pressure and community that tutorials couldn't match. His project Subrosa, a privacy and coordination infrastructure on Stellar and Soroban, won the Build on Stellar hackathon in Istanbul. Now as a developer advocate, he mentors others.

Stellar Builder Summit Sao Paulo: 12 winners announced across 6 tracks including confidential tokens, enterprise RWA escrow, regional on-ramp kits, emerging market yield, agentic payment discovery, and CLI tooling. 190 developers built for 8 consecutive days, delivering products spanning privacy, institutional infrastructure, and local payments.

Three developers from Kolkata transition from hackathon wins to shipping production. Sachindra, Shomadeep, and Orko discuss how mentorship, team collaboration, and obsessive focus on security move projects beyond demos to mainnet. Their lesson: solo builders often stall; teams that emphasize production-readiness from day one ship live products.

Stellar Community Fund's August Mainnet Demo Day featured SCF-funded projects demonstrating live implementations. Decent Wallet showcased the first hardware wallet supporting XLM5 yields via Soroswap and Centora Vault. AgTrail presented end-to-end food traceability for Nigerian farmers with instant NGNC payments on Stellar's payment backbone.

Franklin Templeton's Benji money market fund surged from under $600M to $2.5B on Stellar by tokenizing a regulated fund natively on-chain. The discussion covers how 50,000 transactions cost $1.13 instead of $75,000, yield accrual by the second, regulatory approval, and institutional adoption through exchange collateral.

What does it take to scale payment apps in Brazil? Match PIX's adoption (76% daily), navigate VASP caps, and be serious about capital. A Meridian panel: how regulation consolidates players and attracts institutional investors.

Leaders from Itaú and B3 discuss asset tokenization strategy in Brazil: prioritizing fixed-income assets, building regulatory alignment with CVM, and implementing native corporate actions (dividends, voting, splits) for tokenized securities. The panel explores how institutional adoption depends on proving tokenization reduces systemic risk without requiring new regulatory frameworks.

At Stellar House São Paulo, SDF leadership discusses the regulatory moment catalyzing blockchain financial services adoption. With Stellar's RWA tokenization nearing $4B and nearly 4,000 active developers globally, the ecosystem pivots from proving tokenization is feasible to solving the institutional distribution bottleneck.

Etherfuse, Revo Finance, and OpenZeppelin discuss how financial advisors bring tokenized RWA products to institutional clients through trusted platforms, security audits, and Stellar's partnership ecosystem.

A closing keynote from a major Stellar ecosystem event in Brazil delivers a strategic synthesis of institutional momentum. The speaker affirms the "Brazil moment" as real, positions regulation as a net unlock, and frames stablecoin and RWA adoption as still five minutes past midnight on day one. Key insight: institutional finance requires 100% correctness (not "move fast and break things"), and the barbell model—institutions on one side, developers on the other, blockchain in the middle—is the precondition for sustainable market growth.

Stellar Developers Meeting: expert discussion of confidential tokens. Alex Votto (SDF Product Manager, Privacy) and Jay Gang (SDF Core Engineer) answer 25+ developer questions on privacy design, compliance readiness, and technical architecture of SEP-41 tokens.

Allium partners with SDF to launch Stellar Dashboard, an open-access analytics platform providing builders with real-time visibility into ecosystem trends. The dashboard surfaces network metrics, smart contract activity, stablecoin dynamics, and RWA adoption—enabling teams to validate markets, identify partnerships, and spot where builders are needed most.

Philippine developers Carl (Velo), Mark (Treasure), and Armie share their Web3 onboarding journeys and APAC Hackathon experience in a Rise In Builder Spotlight. They discuss how community support, mentorship, and hands-on hackathons helped them shift from blockchain skepticism to building live projects on Stellar.

The APAC Stellar Hackathon Grand Finale brought 30 finalists from Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam to pitch projects across three tracks—local finance, DeFi, and payments—competing for $60,000 in prizes.

A documentary exploring Vietnam's economic paradox: rapid growth built on a deliberately weak currency drives citizens to seek alternatives—gold shops and now cryptocurrency. The fourth-highest crypto adoption globally masks a speculative market. The government now licenses stablecoin infrastructure and courts blockchain partners including @StellarOrg to redirect demand into payments.

Stellar Developers Meeting features a live CCTP demo enabling canonical USDC to move cross-chain from Stellar to Ethereum, Base, Arc, and Solana. SDF developers showcase a wrapper contract that combines USDC approval and burn into a single atomic transaction. The integration handles Stellar's 7-decimal precision, Circle's attestation flow, and enables permissionless destination minting.

Stellar's Q2 milestone: $3 billion in real-world assets, marking institutional adoption from both the financial infrastructure layer (DTCC selecting Stellar for tokenization) and the access-constrained end (MoneyGram launching MGUSD for 60 million customers). Developer ecosystem reached 2,968 active monthly builders, now the second-largest by developer count.

Vietnamese developers Andre, Ken, and Luis built Nexus, a peer-to-peer lending platform on Stellar, during APAC Hackathon. Unlike pooled lending models, Nexus lets borrowers and lenders negotiate custom terms directly on-chain using smart contracts for collateral management and repayment.