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A tutorial demonstrates building a rebasing token (RUSD) on the Stellar blockchain that accepts USDC deposits and automatically accrues yield by increasing holders' balances. The token uses a share-based system where added collateral, simulating yield from protocols like Blend, proportionally boosts all users' balances without needing to stake or interact further. Users can hold RUSD in their wallets and watch balances grow in real-time.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an end-of-year community celebration featuring ecosystem leaders discussing 2025 accomplishments and 2026 roadmap priorities, including privacy features via Protocol X-ray, foundation infrastructure overhauls, and expanded regional community programs across 21 countries.

A Stellar ecosystem community event in Rio de Janeiro featuring multiple project pitches including Vansys (buy-borrow-pay app), Spectra (cross-anchor identity solution), Solos Swap (liquidity aggregator), Automated Finance (workflow automation), and discussions on Web3 regulation and RWA tokenization.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and multi-chain product strategy featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights inform product decisions and marketing strategies in web3, emphasizing user experience abstraction over technical complexity.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Miocene, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

A panel discussion at a Web3 conference features experts from Massari, Allium, and Dune analyzing on-chain metrics beyond vanity stats like TVL and active wallets. They emphasize use cases, repeatability, revenue, and contextual insights, with specific praise for Stellar's low TVL but high activity, composable RWAs with Centrifuge, and stablecoin volumes. The conversation critiques misleading metrics and explores AI's role in data analysis.

Justin Rice, VP of Ecosystem at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses the future of Stellar's ecosystem, emphasizing interoperability, DeFi protocol growth, zero-knowledge proofs via XRP-25, and the importance of developer community events in fostering innovation across Latin America and globally.

Justin Rice, VP of Ecosystem at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses interoperability, DeFi growth, and the emerging builder community across Latin America. Key focus: more assets and on/off-ramps connecting to DeFi protocols, zero-knowledge primitives enabling new use cases, and unexpected innovations from decentralized builders.

Stellar Community Fund Mainnet Demo Day showcased six live projects: Arrel (institutional payments), Normal (synthetic assets), Trustless Work (escrow infrastructure), Attest Protocol (identity verification), Blux (wallet authentication), and Adamic (blockchain API aggregation).

Brian Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs, discusses the evolution from wrapped assets and bridges to omni-chain tokens (OFTs) via LayerZero's permissionless messaging layer. He highlights the recent integration with Stellar announced at Meridian, enabling native asset movement across chains without fragmentation or security risks. LayerZero facilitates immutable, low-cost transfers, exemplified by an $800M transaction costing under a dollar.

Stellar's Chief Product Officer Tomer Weller discusses the blockchain's evolution from cross-border payments to a booming DeFi ecosystem with smart contracts. Key highlights include partnerships like MoneyGram for on/off-ramps, recent Meridian conference announcements such as PayPal USD on Stellar, and a strong focus on advancing privacy solutions using cutting-edge cryptography. Stellar emphasizes real-world utility, financial inclusion, and metrics like transaction velocity over TVL.

Developer shares updates on small.xyz, a generative AI music project on Stellar, including a modified Comet pool with dynamic fees to enable fair token distribution and a new mixtapes feature for batch collecting tracks.

Cyberworld launches its Auction House, a fully decentralized marketplace built on Stellar that lets players trade in-game items for USDC, XLM, KEL, or other assets, bringing true ownership and real-world value to gaming economies.

OrbitLens presented Reflector, Stellar's decentralized oracle network that launched in April 2024 and now secures over $40M in TVL across DeFi protocols. The system operates via multi-sig consensus from seven organizations, offers on-chain price feeds and subscription services, and recently expanded governance through a DAO launched in December 2024.

Near Protocol's Dejan Radic presented Near Intents, an intent-driven cross-chain swap protocol that recently integrated Stellar. The system enables fast, low-cost cross-chain transactions through a market maker model, with Stellar seeing approximately 200k cumulative volume since integration on August 19th.

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

A keynote on how stablecoins and programmable money can transform everyday payments through automation, spending guardrails, and yield generation, moving beyond faster settlement to smarter financial behavior.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference in Rio on real-world asset tokenization. Speakers from WisdomTree, Red Swan CRE, R-Chats, and Kymeta discuss RWA market growth from $30B on-chain, regulatory progress, and the importance of DeFi utility for driving adoption beyond money markets and treasuries.

Beans, Blend, and DeFindex collaborate to enable non-custodial yield earning for everyday users. The integration abstracts DeFi complexity, allowing Beans users to earn 10x+ bank rates on stablecoins through automated Blend lending strategies without seeing gas fees or technical details.

Stellar core developer discusses blockchain scalability through commutative APIs and parallel execution, presenting research on batch exchange markets and machine code smart contracts to enable orders of magnitude more on-chain computation without sacrificing decentralization.

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.