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Lisa from the Stellar Development Foundation delivers a comprehensive Stellar 101 presentation for business leaders, covering the technology (account-based ledger, consensus protocol, asset issuance, decentralized exchange) and ecosystem (anchors, liquidity, SEPs, interoperability standards).

Nikhil Saraf from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Kelp, an automated trading bot that solves liquidity problems on Stellar's decentralized exchange by enabling market makers, traders, and anchors to create instant liquidity across asset pairs.

Danelle Dixon, SDF CEO, showcased how Stellar-built companies are solving real-world financial inclusion problems across Africa, Latin America, and the US-Mexico border through remittances, cross-border payments, and access to global markets.

Change, a Singapore-based remittance company, discusses scaling cross-border payments on Stellar to serve migrant workers across Asia. CEO Joe Tooson explains their hub-and-spoke model, compliance approach, and vision for instant, free, and safe remittances.

Tomer Weller from SDF traces the six-year evolution of Stellar anchor interoperability standards, from 2014 gateways through SEP6, SEP24, and SEP31, explaining how anchors bridge traditional finance with Stellar and enable cross-border payments.

Three Stellar anchors demonstrated live implementations of SEP protocols for cross-border payments and fiat on/off-ramps. Settle showed SEP-24 deposit/withdrawal flows for Argentine peso and Brazilian real, Kauri demonstrated SEP-6 integration across web and WhatsApp wallets for Nigerian naira, and Tempo presented SEP-31 merchant payment flows for euro-backed stablecoins.

David Mazuris introduces STC, the Stellar Transaction Compiler, a command-line tool that makes it easier to create, examine, and debug raw Stellar transactions without writing code. The tool translates between XDR and TxRep formats, enabling developers to test transaction behavior directly on the network.

Meridian panel featuring Sam Conner of Stellar Global and Daniel Fisher of Public Node discussing how independent community initiatives are empowering the Stellar ecosystem through localized Discord communities, validator infrastructure, and content creation.

Stellar Development Foundation engineers and ecosystem validators discuss network decentralization, node operations, and tier one validator requirements at Meridian conference. Speakers cover quorum set configuration, incentive structures, and the path to becoming a tier one validator.

Stellar Development Foundation concludes 2020 virtual Meridian conference, highlighting 2 billion network operations, 25 live anchors, and 2021 priorities including DEX liquidity improvements, a private sidechain, and expanded anchor partnerships to drive financial inclusion.

SDF COO Jason Chilpala moderates a panel discussion with IMF senior financial expert John Kiff and EmTech CEO Carmel Kadett on how central bank digital currencies and stablecoins can coexist, exploring CBDC design, programmable money use cases, and financial inclusion opportunities.

Lee McCulloch from SDF explains SEP-30, a Stellar Ecosystem Proposal that enables user-friendly account recovery without requiring users to manage secret keys. The protocol uses multi-signature accounts and independent recovery servers, demonstrated by Vibrant wallet in Argentina.

Jed McCaleb and Danell Dixon discuss Stellar's growth, leadership transition, and 2020 accomplishments. The SDF expanded from 12 to 80 employees, launched Vibrant in Argentina, and focused on real-world use cases in emerging markets while navigating COVID-19 and policy engagement.

Panel discussion on tokenization and financial democratization featuring executives from Securrency, eStock, and WisdomTree. Speakers explore how blockchain-based tokenized securities can expand global access to financial markets, reduce costs, and enable compliance at scale while addressing regulatory challenges.

Howard Chen from SDF presents Vibrant, a non-custodial wallet built on Stellar for Argentina that uses protocol 13 and 15 features like fee sponsorship and sponsored reserves to eliminate user friction around transaction fees and minimum balances.

LightNet and Interstellar announced a partnership leveraging Stellar to enable fast, low-cost remittances across Asia Pacific. Backed by major conglomerates including CP Group and Seven Bank, the network connects 40,000+ convenience stores and 5 million agents to serve unbanked populations and reduce remittance costs from 6% to under 1%.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF presented progress on Turing Signing Servers, a proposal for enabling decentralized transaction creation on Stellar through programmable smart contract-like functionality without modifying the core protocol.

Jake Urban from SDF presents Polaris, an extendable Django application that simplifies building modular Stellar anchor services. Polaris implements common anchor functionality while allowing developers to customize and extend it for their specific needs, supporting SEP 6, 24, and 31 protocols.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, discusses Solid, a decentralized protocol for data ownership and control. He draws parallels between early web principles and current blockchain/Stellar efforts, emphasizing the importance of open standards, user agency, and avoiding centralization.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an open protocol meeting to discuss CAP 21, a draft proposal for generalized transaction preconditions. The CAP aims to enable payment channels, relative time locks, and time-delayed key recovery by extending account entries and replacing the time bounds field with more flexible preconditions.

Stellar protocol developers discussed CAP 35, which enables asset issuers to claw back tokens for regulatory compliance. The proposal moved from draft to final comment period after minor revisions including deprecating AllowTrust and expanding asset parameters for future delegation flexibility.

Stellar Development Foundation held its Q4 2020 quarterly call reviewing major achievements including 20 anchor services, protocol 15 upgrades, USDC integration coming Q1, and 1,819% growth in relevant asset transaction volume to $48.7M.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP-29 and CAP-35 proposals to improve regulated asset support. CAP-29 simplifies trust line authorization flags, while CAP-35 introduces asset clawback functionality for regulatory compliance and fraud recovery.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts roundtable on custodial vs non-custodial wallet design, featuring builders from Saldo MX, SatoshiPay, and D-Stock discussing key management approaches, regulatory considerations, and ecosystem needs like CAP27 multiplexed accounts and CEP30 recovery signers.