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Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

Enrique shares his four-year journey building wallets in Stellar, discussing why smart wallets matter for user adoption and announcing XBull V2, which combines classic account benefits with smart wallet features using passkey authentication.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenZeppelin developer Steve Sinkens demonstrates monitors and relayers, open-source backend services for Stellar smart contracts. Monitors watch contracts and trigger notifications; relayers execute transactions on-chain based on custom rules. Both tools are essential for Meridian hackathon participants building on Soroban.

XBid AI demonstrates its flexible plugin system for data injection, showing how Reflector oracles feed price data to the AI agent on Stellar. The system normalizes prices and exposes observables like slope and freshness for strategies to consume.

Near Intense, a multi-chain transaction protocol, has integrated with Stellar, enabling developers to bridge assets from over 100 blockchains into Stellar applications. The integration uses a one-click API for seamless cross-chain swaps and asset bridging.

Developer builds a decentralized chat web app using Soroban smart contracts and speech-to-text API. The 13-line contract stores messages as on-chain events, eliminating need for traditional servers or databases.

Stellar launches Audit Bank, a community initiative providing developers with subsidized security audits from leading firms. Projects pay only 5% upfront, refundable if critical bugs are fixed within 20 days, with follow-up audits free after reaching $10M-$100M TVL milestones.

DevRel team member shares practical AI coding workflow using tools like Lovable, Cursor, and Claude to build faster. Demonstrates one-shotting an Asteroids game, discusses MCP servers for context, and explores AI agents for autonomous development.

Tutorial demonstrating how to build a passkey-enabled smart wallet application on Stellar using PasskeyKit, enabling biometric authentication and decentralized user credential systems without centralized backends.

Two developers live-code a fungible token and NFT contract on Soroban using the Soroban Playground, a new web-based IDE for smart contract development. They deploy working contracts to testnet and explore the contract explorer interface.

OpenZeppelin released a new NFT royalties extension for Stellar's Soroban smart contracts, enabling developers to set up and earn royalties on NFT collections. The tutorial demonstrates how to deploy and configure the royalty contract on testnet.

Vivo from Ahlabs demonstrates Scaffold Stellar, a comprehensive developer framework for building on Stellar and Soroban. The tool includes CLI plugins, contract templates, local deployment, TypeScript client generation, and an integrated contract explorer frontend.

Scaffold Stellar is a new developer tool from Aha Labs that provides a ready-to-use web3 app template for building on Stellar. It includes contract examples, wallet integration, and local network setup to eliminate boilerplate and accelerate dApp development.

Scaffold Stellar by AHA Labs is a Rust-based development framework that provides a complete boilerplate for building Soroban smart contracts with pre-integrated frontend wallet support, enabling developers to initialize projects, deploy contracts, and iterate in real-time.

Stellar ecosystem recap from Istanbul covering Berlin Blockchain Week, the Istanbul hackathon with 67 submissions, Beans Earn integration with Blend, DeFi Index launch, Scaffold Stellar updates, and upcoming Hack Meridian in Rio de Janeiro with 50K in prizes.

Tutorial on building a custom stablecoin on Soroban using OpenZeppelin contracts. The creator demonstrates how to create a SEP41 token called JUSD that accepts USDC deposits and mints a corresponding stablecoin in a 1:1 ratio, using a new online IDE.

Sertora presents Sunbeam, a formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts that uses SMT solvers to mathematically prove code correctness against specifications written in Rust, enabling developers to catch bugs early in the development cycle.

Tutorial on using OpenZeppelin's Monitor software to track USDC transfers on the Stellar network and send real-time notifications to Telegram. Covers setup, configuration, contract interaction, and bot integration.

Tutorial on creating and deploying an NFT smart contract on Stellar's Soroban network using OpenZeppelin libraries, including contract modifications, metadata creation, and testnet deployment.