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Alejo Mendoza from SkyHits introduces a new smart contract platform for music NFTs on Stellar, enabling microtransactions for streams, downloads, and likes with revenue distributed to artists and investors via escrow mechanisms.

Developer demonstrates major smart wallet updates for Soroban including P256R1 and ED25519 signing curves, multi-signature support, and policies that restrict signer capabilities without requiring transaction pop-ups.

James Pacini, Stellar developer in residence, provides a comprehensive tutorial on building Rust-based smart contracts using the Soroban SDK, covering deployment, data types, testing, and creating a decentralized application to interact with contracts on the Stellar network.

ZK Cross Network launches Super Accounts on Stellar, enabling one-click bridging of liquidity from 100+ fiat currencies and blockchains to Stellar. The feature abstracts DeFi complexities like gas swapping and bridging through chain abstraction infrastructure.

Comet is a fuzzing and formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts. The demo walks through testing a vaults contract using property-based testing, showing how to write test contracts that interact with target contracts and use the Comet CLI to run automated fuzzing on contract functions.

Panel discussion on tokenization's future featuring leaders from Stellar Development Foundation, Avalanche Labs, Paxos, and Algorand Foundation. Speakers discuss mainstream adoption barriers, regulatory frameworks, and real-world applications beyond stablecoins including real estate, gaming, and loyalty programs.

Elizabeth Carpenter, COO of Circle, discusses how USDC and blockchain technology enable real-world financial inclusion, from farmers in Brazil to cross-border payments, emphasizing the importance of trust, user experience, and the 'caring edge' over hype-driven innovation.

Nicolas, CTO of the Stellar Foundation, explains how Stellar's fee mechanisms evolved from basic bidding to sophisticated multi-dimensional resource pricing, including Cap-5, Cap-42, and Cap-46-07, to balance network sustainability, fairness, and scalability while preventing spam and ensuring equitable access.

BlockScience and Stellar Development Foundation presented NeuroQuorum Governance (NQG), a sophisticated governance framework combining neural governance with quorum delegation. The system has been implemented in the Stellar Community Fund, allocating over $15 million in XLM across 300+ submissions since October 2023.

Donnell Dixon of the Stellar Development Foundation interviews Mary Ellen Iskandarian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, exploring how financial inclusion for low-income women drives economic empowerment, family outcomes, and GDP growth across developing economies.

Chris Anataglio from the Stellar Development Foundation walks through building Soroban smart contracts using Rust, covering Okashi browser IDE and the Stellar CLI with live coding examples.

Tomaso de Ponti, a 19-year-old Stellar consultant and co-founder of X-Cyclo Labs, discusses Soroban development roadmap including elliptic curves for zero-knowledge proofs, passkeys for smart wallets, and Mercury indexer infrastructure.

Comprehensive guide to earning money in the Stellar ecosystem through yield farming, liquidity provision, and governance participation across platforms like Aquarius, Blend, Ultra Stellar, and others, with yields ranging from 4% to 6000%.

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.

Australian entrepreneur Zach Barrowdale uses Decaf, a Stellar-powered payment app, to pay workers in San Francisco, Colombia without risking his life carrying cash. After being shot during a payroll run, he switched to crypto payments via USDC on Stellar, enabling financial inclusion for 50+ women in a remote farming town.

Gemma from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the complete funding pathway for Stellar ecosystem projects, from developer initiatives through SCF Kickstart, the Stellar Community Fund, and post-launch support. SCF 6.0 introduces new award tiers, deliverable-based structures, and enhanced post-award mentorship to accelerate project launch and growth.

Danelle Dixon interviews Rick Martin, co-founder of Decaf, a non-custodial wallet enabling fiat-to-crypto onboarding in 200 countries. They discuss building real-world impact through accessible financial tools, trust-building, and amplifying stories of users in underserved markets.

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.

Garen Tyson from SDF explains Stellar's state archival protocol, which solves blockchain state bloat by charging rent for storage instead of one-time fees. Archived entries can be restored via Merkle proofs, with RPC nodes handling complexity transparently for users and developers.

CoinFabric, a blockchain security and auditing firm, discusses smart contract vulnerabilities, the importance of manual security audits over automated tools, and their grant-funded work with Stellar to develop static analysis tools for Soroban developers.

Elliot from the Stellar Development Foundation demonstrates how to build passkey-authenticated smart wallets on Stellar using PasskeyKit and LaunchTube, eliminating the need for traditional wallet setup and seed phrases.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through building full-stack dApps on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering frontend integration with Freighter wallet, TypeScript bindings, and deploying a crowdfunding example dApp to production.

SDF Q2 2024 review highlights 8.4M network addresses, $1.8B real-world asset payment volume, $5M SCF awards to 107 projects, and progress on state archival to address blockchain scalability.

Stellar and Solana developers discuss state bloat solutions: Solana's compression and binary trie approach versus Stellar's rent-based system with sharded Merkle trees. Both aim to balance low fees with preventing spam while maintaining data availability.