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A tutorial demonstrates creating and minting the first NFT collection on the Lightning marketplace within the Stellar blockchain ecosystem. Using Factor wallet and XLM on mainnet, the process covers uploading an image generated with Nano Banana, setting collection details like name, asset code, description, supply, and domain, then listing it for sale at 10 XLM. The video concludes with managing orders, searching the collection, and canceling listings.

Step-by-step tutorial on setting up Freighter wallet, activating it with XLM, and exploring Stellar dApps like ZoroSwap for token swaps and asset management.

Blessed UX and Telus Cooperative are launching a five-workshop Web3 builder program in Chile, teaching participants to create wallets, smart contracts, and deploy apps on Stellar.

Educational overview of Stellar's mission to create accessible global finance, explaining the Stellar Consensus Protocol, anchors as fiat bridges, and introducing Soroban smart contracts with a practical crowdfunding example.

Joaquin leads a Spanish-language workshop on how to submit ideas to Stellar's Ideatón competition, emphasizing problem-driven ideation, viability on Stellar, and scalability over technical complexity.

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.

Natasha from Boys Club discusses marketing strategies for crypto projects, emphasizing storytelling, media-first approaches, and building brand perception. She shares insights on leveraging events, managing personal vs. brand visibility, and the importance of authentic narrative in Web3 marketing.

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.

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.

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.

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.