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SDF's Q3 2021 quarterly call covered major developments including a $40M investment in Tala, MoneyGram partnership for cash-in/cash-out via Stellar, Protocol 18 AMM upgrade, and 148% year-over-year growth in network payments.

Panel discussion on reimagining finance with blockchain, featuring leaders from Stellar, Visa, Tribal Credit, Wire, and RTM discussing fintech opportunities in Latin America, stablecoins, cross-border payments, and the role of blockchain infrastructure in financial inclusion.

Stellar Development Foundation discusses CAP 21, a core advancement proposal that enables payment channels on Stellar. The team addresses outstanding technical questions about account extensions, transaction validation, and preconditions to move toward acceptance.

Stellar Open Protocol meeting discussing CAP 21 and CAP 40, which lay groundwork for payment channels. CAP 21 generalizes transaction preconditions to support relative time locks and other conditions; CAP 40 enables participants to exchange signatures for multiple transactions in one step.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an ecosystem panel on fintech in Africa featuring leaders from Chipper Cash, DFS Lab, ClickPesa, and Leaf Global. Panelists discussed building blockchain-based financial services, navigating fragmented regulatory landscapes, and the critical need for interoperability across African fintech platforms.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Danelle Dixon leads a panel discussion on diversity and inclusion in fintech and tech, featuring leaders from Dropbox, Avantis Consulting, and the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain. Panelists discuss barriers to diversity, the business case for inclusion, and actionable steps for building more representative organizations.

SDF's Q2 2021 quarterly call covering $18M in enterprise fund investments, protocol upgrades 16 and 17, CAP 38 AMM proposal, and network growth metrics showing 159% increase in payments and 36,900% growth in relevant asset transactions.

Dr. Jim Kim, former World Bank president, discusses how blockchain and Stellar can address global challenges like financial inclusion, remittances, and poverty reduction. He shares insights on global governance, policy-making, and the importance of engaging multilateral institutions to advance blockchain adoption.

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discusses financial inclusion, digital payments, and blockchain technology's role in addressing global inequities. She emphasizes the need for inclusive financial architecture, mobile money adoption, and inter-African payment systems to enable sustainable growth.

Stellar Development Foundation representative explains how Stellar's decentralized network enables interoperable digital assets and payments across traditional financial infrastructure, positioning it as a common infrastructure alternative to siloed correspondent banking systems.

D-Stock CEO Craig McGregor discusses how the company uses Stellar blockchain to tokenize real-world securities like stocks, ETFs, and bonds, enabling fractional investing and 24/7 trading with settlement in seconds instead of days.

David Carlyle from Elliptic discusses how blockchain analytics and AML compliance are combating cryptocurrency crime. He debunks myths about crypto anonymity and lack of regulation, showing that Bitcoin transactions are highly traceable and that global regulatory frameworks are expanding to reduce illicit activity.

Simon Chantry from BIT discusses central bank digital currency (CBDC) deployment, the journey from research to live operations, and BIT's Digital Currency Management System that enables central banks and financial institutions to operationalize CBDCs and stablecoins across payment networks.

Securrency's Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campos discusses building compliance infrastructure for digital assets on Stellar, emphasizing the need for regulatory frameworks that enable institutional DeFi while maintaining investor protections and interoperability across jurisdictions.

Radko Albrecht, founder of Bitbond, discusses fiat-backed stablecoin issuance for banks and financial intermediaries, explaining how tokenization and on-chain payments enable instant settlement and atomic swaps for securities transactions.

Dante Disparte from Circle discusses stablecoins and cross-border payments, highlighting how USDC has grown to $20 billion in circulation and addresses the 50-year-old financial infrastructure gap through blockchain-based solutions.

Stellar Development Foundation held an open protocol discussion on CAP 37 and CAP 38, two competing proposals to introduce automated market makers (AMMs) at the protocol level. After extensive debate on implementation approaches, the CAP committee unanimously voted to move CAP 38 into final comment period, choosing the simpler best-venue routing model over CAP 37's more complex interleaved approach.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF walks through Stellar development fundamentals, covering the Stellar stack, SDKs, transaction building with JavaScript, and delegated signing with Albedo wallet for non-custodial key management.

Anke from SDF presents a workshop on Stellar fundamentals, covering blockchain basics, how Stellar works, asset issuance, the decentralized exchange, and real-world applications like Uhuru Wallet and Leaf Global Fintech. The session includes live demonstrations using Stellar Laboratory and highlights a $3,000 hackathon prize pool for projects solving real-world problems.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a panel at UC Berkeley featuring four live projects building on Stellar: CoinQuest (crypto payment APIs), Realty Bits (real estate tokenization), Uhuru (WhatsApp-based cross-border payments), and Vibrant (USDC savings app for Argentina). Panelists discussed asset issuance, interoperability via Stellar Ecosystem Proposals, and how developers can build on Stellar without permission.

Stellar protocol discussion on automated market makers (AMMs) focusing on asset authorization and revocation mechanisms. Two approaches debated: one mirroring existing offer revocation semantics, another requiring issuer opt-in for liquidity pool participation.

Stellar developers discussed two competing proposals, CAP 37 and CAP 38, for adding automated market makers (AMMs) to the protocol. Key topics included reserve requirements, DEX integration approaches, pool parameter updates, and governance for multiple pools per asset pair.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a roundtable discussion on NFTs with ecosystem builders including Task.io, Litemint, and Stellarport. Panelists explored NFT definitions beyond the acronym, real-world use cases from gaming to certification, and technical challenges around decentralization, storage, and legal frameworks.

SDF's Q1 2021 quarterly call covered major milestones including Stellar USDC launch, three enterprise fund investments totaling $6.5M, Horizon 2.0 release, and significant network growth with 160% increase in payments and 2,798% growth in relevant asset transactions.