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GrantFox community call walks through the redesigned open-source contribution platform on Stellar. Founders showcase new UI updates, a dual-sided rating system for contributors and maintainers, and a flagging mechanism with strikes to maintain code quality.

SoroPG Academy Lesson 1 walks developers through the complete Soroban smart contract workflow, from writing Rust code to deploying on testnet. The browser-based tutorial requires no local setup or testnet funds, making it an ideal entry point for learning Soroban development.

SDF's SoroPG Academy teaches AI-assisted Soroban smart contract development with human control at the center. The lesson: establish a baseline, ask AI for one narrow testable change, review the code, run tests, and only deploy once you fully understand the result. AI accelerates development without replacing developer responsibility.

SoroPG Academy tutorial on integrating agentic AI into contract development. Learn how to connect the Soroban IDE to external coding agents (Codex, Claude Code) via Model Context Protocol, enabling safer, more powerful AI-assisted workflows for smart contract work.

SozuPay and ArcusX, two InstaAwards recipients, demonstrated Stellar smart account infrastructure and non-custodial escrow. SozuPay handles organization payments with passkey authentication and compliance configuration; ArcusX provides a freelance platform with smart contract escrow and portfolio management.

Winners from the 2026 Istanbul Build On Stellar x RiseIn Hackathon discuss why they chose Stellar for their first blockchain projects. They praise the network's ease of use, developer-friendly architecture, and fast transaction settlement. The winners highlight how AI tools like Claude and Cursor accelerated their development process, and emphasize the importance of judge feedback for refining their ideas.

Two InstaAwards recipients presented week 2 progress updates. Sozu Capital, a fintech application using Stellar for self-custodial payments and decentralized lending via Blend, redesigned its landing page and plans testnet transactions with NGO partners. ArcusX shipped critical API consistency fixes, extended its platform, and crossed 300+ active members.

Kaan from SDF hosts a Stellar Developers Meeting featuring April from Kolkata discussing Route 14, a ZK privacy toolkit for Soroban. The discussion covers Stellar's native BLS 12-381 support (CAP 0059) that makes production-grade zero-knowledge verification cheaper than any other blockchain, Route 14's architecture as a shared verification registry, and upcoming Turkey-based hackathons.

Shweta and Shomik discuss their two-and-a-half-year journey from their first Risein hackathon in Bangalore to founding Hypertron, a platform automating compliance and payments setup for blockchain businesses. The spotlight explores how community, real-time mentorship, and structured residency programs unlock success in Web3.

Circle's CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) launched on Stellar, enabling native 1:1 USDC bridging across 17 blockchains. This technical walkthrough demonstrates the implementation with working code: burning USDC on one chain authorizes minting on another. Includes open source examples and testnet demo.

Day Zero 06 tutorial on building payment-gated servers using x402 on Stellar. Speaker demonstrates 30-line-of-code server that requires USDC payment to access premium data, and shows how to wire Claude with MCP to autonomously execute payments via Stellar transactions.

Kaan from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), explaining its two modes (charge and channel) for monetizing services on Stellar. MPP enables pay-per-request billing and high-frequency micropayments for agents and services, with a live demo showing how to implement paywalls for premium MCP tools.

Educational tutorial on developing smart contracts with Soroban, Stellar's WebAssembly-based smart contract platform. Covers the 7-step process from CLI installation to contract deployment and invocation on testnet.

Ray from Sertora presents threat modeling as a security methodology for Stellar protocols, introducing the 4As framework (assets, actors, assumptions, attack vectors) to identify vulnerabilities, speed up audits, and improve protocol security before and during development.

Ray from Certora presents threat modeling as a security methodology for Stellar protocols, introducing the Four A's framework (Assets, Actors, Assumptions, Attack Vectors) to identify vulnerabilities, speed up audits, and improve protocol security before and during development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.