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Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Miocene, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

Joaquín Farfán leads a hands-on workshop deploying a smart contract on Stellar's testnet using Soroban and Rust, demonstrating how developers can build financial applications with real-world impact in Latin America.

At the Zama CoFHE Shop, the Stellar Development Foundation and Predicate discussed the emerging balance between privacy, compliance, and auditability on blockchains. SDF's Chief Product Officer Tomer argued that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to privacy. Instead, Stellar is building the cryptographic primitives so developers can layer whatever privacy solutions their use cases require. Predicate's head of business development emphasized that privacy and compliance evolve together, not sequentially. Key blockers to adoption include the lack of user-friendly products and regulatory uncertainty. SDF announced Protocol 25 X-Ray, bringing cryptographic building blocks (pairing-friendly elliptic curves, Poseidon hash functions) to Stellar, along with integrations for Noir, a zero-knowledge DSL, and RISC-Zero verifiers. SDF is collaborating with Nethermind on Stellar Private Payments, a privacy-preserving protocol based on Privacy Pools research, and shipping a confidential tokens implementation. The consensus: the cryptographic infrastructure is ready; the market needs better products and regulatory clarity.

BrightTech released Stellar Wallet Kit v2, the popular SDK for integrating Stellar wallets into frontend applications. The video demonstrates setup, wallet connection, and transaction signing in both React and Vanilla JS with live examples.

OpenZeppelin presents new Stellar smart contract libraries including a smart account framework for passkey-based authorization, an ERC-4626 compatible token vault, and real-world asset (RWA) contracts with identity and compliance modules.

OpenZeppelin presents their managed Stellar Relayer service with a channels plugin for parallel transaction processing. The service enables gasless, high-throughput transactions on Stellar with automatic fee bumping and sequence number management.

Developer builds open-source Rust tool for efficient Stellar data access, combining RPC nodes and public data lake queries with REST API and command-line interfaces.

OpenZeppelin's UI Builder tool for Stellar enables developers to quickly create interactive frontends for smart contracts on Stellar Mainnet and Testnet without extensive coding, featuring React components, form customization, and export capabilities.

Pam and Willem from AHA Company introduce the Stellar Registry and Registry CLI, a package manager for Soroban smart contracts that enables human-readable naming, versioning, and simplified contract deployment and upgrades on Stellar.

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.

Tutorial on creating and distributing tokens on Stellar using Merkle trees for efficient airdrop verification. Demonstrates building a token contract with claim functionality, using Soroban smart contracts and a React frontend.

Lee from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses three low-level features that power great developer tools: contract specs (embedded IDL), the Soroban runtime environment, and XDR JSON for readable transaction data.

Tamer from SDF and Heymanth from Goldsky demonstrate building data indexers on Stellar to track asset movements and circulating supply. They present two approaches: the open-source Stellar Composable Data Platform for custom indexing, and Goldsky Mirror for managed, simplified data pipelines.

Meridian Pay is a Stellar Smart Wallet built by SDF and Cheesecake Labs that delivers Web2-like UX on mainnet. It uses passkeys for passwordless authentication, Merkle trees for efficient token distribution, and the wallet backend for fee sponsorship and transaction indexing.

Chad Oh from The Aha Company presents Scaffold Stellar, a rapid application development tool for building Stellar dApps with smart defaults and minimal setup. The talk covers the Stellar Scaffold CLI for project initialization and the Stellar Registry for publishing and managing WASM binaries on-chain.

Lucien from Boundless and Matteo from NetherMind demonstrate how to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Stellar via Boundless, enabling privacy, removing transaction limits, and unlocking new DeFi applications like private AMMs through verifiable off-chain computation.

Tomer, SDF Chief Product Officer, outlines Stellar's privacy strategy combining blockchain transparency with user privacy through opt-in, configurable solutions. SDF is funding privacy projects, building ZK infrastructure, and developing confidential token and private payment protocols with partners like Nethermind.

Artemis and Messari present data analytics platforms for Stellar ecosystem. Artemis offers Bloomberg-style crypto analytics with cross-chain comparisons and AI chat. Messari provides Portal for on-chain/off-chain data aggregation and AI Copilot for ecosystem research.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

OpenZeppelin's Bojan discusses the Stellar Contracts Library, built in under a year with four audits completed. The library provides foundational smart contract tools including tokens, access controls, and innovative features like smart accounts with passkeys and real-world asset tokenization tailored for Soroban.

Francesco from Almanacs discusses AI-powered security tools for blockchain, highlighting how AI-generated code increases attack surface and why traditional security tools fall short. Almanacs launches in the Stellar Audit Bank to provide subsidized security scans for Soroban projects.

Mule Fahreau discusses formal verification best practices for Soroban smart contracts, covering code modularity, AI-assisted refactoring, and combining AI with formal verification tools to improve security and auditability.

Michael from SDF leads a panel discussion on the malicious mindset in security, exploring how questioning assumptions and thinking like an attacker helps build better, more secure products in the Stellar ecosystem.

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.