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A panel at Stellar House Miami discusses the power of storytelling in Web3 marketing, featuring marketers from Privy and Stellar. Panelists share their journeys into crypto marketing and emphasize aligning narratives with strong products, targeting the right audiences, and building long-term trust. They highlight education on stablecoins, wallets, and purposeful blockchains like Stellar for financial services.

Patricio Zavala, Crypto Valley ambassador for Latin America, explains how Switzerland's Zug region became a blockchain hub and outlines a strategy to replicate this model across Latin America by establishing clear regulation, banking infrastructure, and community spaces for crypto talent and startups.

Scaffold Stellar tutorial covering smart contract development on Stellar, including project setup, the guess-the-number contract walkthrough, and improvements like moving random number generation to the constructor and better error handling.

Candace Kelly, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses her 17-year career spanning the FBI, DOJ, and U.S. Attorney's Office before transitioning to crypto policy. She reflects on why government expertise combined with sector experience is critical for navigating regulatory landscapes.

Tutorial on the redesigned Stellar Lab covering key pair generation, account creation, funding with Friendbot, and an introduction to muxed accounts for improved user experience in exchange scenarios.

A yield farming strategy tutorial demonstrating how to boost USDC yields from 16% to over 38% on Stellar by combining Blend lending, XLM borrowing, FxDAO collateralization, and looping cycles.

Flipside Crypto launches incentivized quests on Stellar to onboard DeFi users. Complete tasks like swapping USDC for XLM, depositing into liquidity pools on Aquarius, and lending on Blend to earn rewards while experiencing Stellar's low-cost, fast transactions.

Tutorial on earning passive income on Stellar by combining Blend lending protocol with Aquarius liquidity rewards. Shows how to supply XLM to Blend, borrow stablecoins, and participate in high-yield Aquarius pools without selling your XLM holdings.

Caio Matos, CEO of NierX, announces Hack Meridian, a global blockchain hackathon coming to Rio de Janeiro on September 15-16, 2025, hosted at Copacabana Palace with 50,000 USD in prizes and 500 developers from 30+ countries competing across DeFi, Composability, and Open Innovation tracks.

Teague from SDF's dev marketing team provides a recap of Day 5 of the Stellar Builder Summit in Toronto, highlighting presentations, a hackathon with builders working late into the night, go-karting, and upcoming events including a baseball game.

Stellar and La Nube Cowork, a workspace in Valdivia, Chile, announced a partnership to create a space for blockchain education and community building in Latin America. The alliance aims to increase awareness of Stellar and decentralized technology across the region.

Dogstar is a DeFi learning platform built on Stellar that lets users practice trading and earn rewards risk-free through the Dogstar League competitive game, featuring a non-custodial wallet, decentralized exchange, and liquidity pools.

Garand from the Stellar Development Foundation explains how a $25M MEV attack on Ethereum exploited proof-of-stake's fundamental security flaws, and contrasts this with Stellar's proof-of-agreement consensus model that requires validators to be trusted by existing network members.

StellarQuest bootcamp walkthrough covering wallet setup with Albedo, account creation on Stellar testnet, and payment transactions using Stellar Lab. Participants earned NFTs by completing each mission step.

Kyle and Pedro discuss Stellar adoption in Latin America, developer support programs, and community-driven projects. Kyle leads the Stellar Ambassador Program in Brazil and founded NearX, a blockchain developer training company. Pedro is building a gamified learning platform for Rust and Soroban development.

Bastian, a designer and entrepreneur in the Stellar ecosystem for 7 years, presents a design thinking framework for transforming ideas into minimum viable products (MVPs) that can integrate with Stellar blockchain. The session covers five stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and evaluate, with practical tools and no-code solutions.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

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.

Julian from the Stellar Development Foundation compares Solidity and Soroban Rust SDK for smart contract development, building identical hello world contracts in both languages and highlighting Rust's advantages for blockchain including concurrency safety and lower computational overhead.

Tutorial on Soroban smart contract constructors, explaining how they work during contract deployment, with practical examples of declaring constructors, setting storage, and deploying to testnet.

Educational tutorial on Stellar accounts covering account structure, creation using the JavaScript SDK, Stellar Lab tools, and completing Stellar Quest challenges.

Tutorial on three ways to grow XLM holdings on Stellar without staking: depositing in Blend Capital for emissions, earning rewards through Aquarius AMM and SDX pools, and participating in Phinex DeFi Hub liquidity pools. Bonus strategy involves using FxDAO vaults to mint stablecoins and leverage cross-protocol integrations.

Women in DeFi Bootcamp inaugural session covering Web3 fundamentals, blockchain technology, DeFi concepts, and the Stellar ecosystem. Participants learned about wallets, stablecoins, DEX platforms, lending, staking, and tokenization with hands-on demonstrations.

Chris Anitalio from the Stellar Development Foundation explains blockchain value to Web2 developers, covering data aggregation, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, and why Stellar Network excels for real-world use cases like remittances and financial inclusion.