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A diverse panel discusses blockchain's role in addressing global social challenges including poverty, healthcare, and environmental issues. Speakers from Partizia, Positive Blockchain, Algorand, MASPERS, and Stellar Development Foundation share real-world use cases ranging from humanitarian aid distribution to rural women's financial inclusion and climate finance.

Julian from the Stellar Development Foundation compares Solidity and Soroban Rust SDK for smart contract development, building identical hello world contracts in both languages and highlighting Rust's advantages for blockchain including concurrency safety and lower computational overhead.

Tutorial on Soroban smart contract constructors, explaining how they work during contract deployment, with practical examples of declaring constructors, setting storage, and deploying to testnet.

Educational tutorial on Stellar accounts covering account structure, creation using the JavaScript SDK, Stellar Lab tools, and completing Stellar Quest challenges.

Tutorial on three ways to grow XLM holdings on Stellar without staking: depositing in Blend Capital for emissions, earning rewards through Aquarius AMM and SDX pools, and participating in Phinex DeFi Hub liquidity pools. Bonus strategy involves using FxDAO vaults to mint stablecoins and leverage cross-protocol integrations.

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.

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.

Ana Rodriguez from Scale Mode teaches Topic 7 of the Stellar course organized by Errorgentina Programa and Haciendo Stellar, covering how to interact with the Stellar Laboratory. The session explains the differences between Testnet and Pubnet, then demonstrates practical use of the Laboratory for creating accounts, querying endpoints, building transactions, signing, and submitting them.

Ana Rodriguez teaches Stellar transactions and operations in Spanish, covering how to construct, validate, and submit transactions to the Stellar network with practical code examples using the JavaScript SDK.

Educational overview of Stellar assets, covering asset creation, issuer responsibilities, asset codes, precision handling, and control flags like authorization, revocation, and clawback capabilities.

Spanish-language tutorial introducing Stellar accounts, covering key pair generation, account creation, trust lines, sequence numbers, thresholds, signers, sponsored reserves, and account deletion via merge operations.

Educational video introducing blockchain technology fundamentals, covering distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, smart contracts, and use cases beyond cryptocurrency including remittances, supply chain, and voting systems.

Educational video introducing blockchain technology fundamentals, covering distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, smart contracts, and key advantages and limitations of blockchain systems.

Stellar Community Fund hosts an info session for the Asia Pacific SCF startup bootcamp, a five-day virtual program using design sprint methodology to help teams accelerate from idea to MVP. The bootcamp features mentorship, workshops, investor demo day, and prizes totaling 30,000 XLM.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts detailed walkthrough of SCF submission process, covering eligibility requirements, project information, deliverables, budgeting, team qualifications, and submission platform features for Round 12.

Developer walkthrough of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, a Soroban smart contract coding game that teaches optimization through competitive challenges. The host covers the game engine, testing strategies, and Rust development practices for building efficient contracts.

Researcher from Red Bay Network presents scientific analysis of blockchain transaction throughput (TPS) claims versus real-world performance, revealing significant gaps between announced metrics and observed results across major blockchains including Algorand, Avalanche, and Solana.

DFS Lab and Stellar Development Foundation announced a virtual bootcamp (November 1-4) for Stellar Community Fund applicants, featuring design sprint methodology to rapidly prototype and validate financial products. Participants will work with mentors, community members, and Stellar engineers to move from problem definition to tested prototype in four days.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, interviews crypto journalist Laura Shin about covering the industry, her book The Cryptopians on Ethereum's history, and the Terra/UST collapse that unfolded during the recording.

At South by Southwest, Stellar Development Foundation's Anka discusses major initiatives including the DFS Labs fintech bootcamp for Africa, the Stellar Community Fund (SCF) grant program distributing 12 million lumens annually, and a Stellar NFT hackathon combining art and technology.

SDF and DFS Lab hosted a panel discussion featuring five African fintech startups from their blockchain bootcamp, discussing their growth, challenges, and advice for future participants. Companies like Stacks, Phone Bank, Bonafide, Quidro, and Honey Coin shared how the bootcamp accelerated their development and helped them raise significant funding.

Tyler from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses the evolution of Stellar Quest, a gamified learning platform for blockchain developers. The platform is shifting from live competitive challenges to include Stellar Quest Learn, a comprehensive educational onboarding course, while maintaining competitive Stellar Quest Live series.

Austin Rice and Marta Lakova from the Stellar Development Foundation deliver a technical deep dive into how Stellar works, comparing its federated Byzantine agreement consensus to Bitcoin and Ethereum's proof of work, then demonstrate asset issuance on the Stellar testnet using Stellar Laboratory.

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.