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MoneyGram CEO Anthony Suhu discusses modernizing the 80-year-old remittance company by integrating blockchain rails, stablecoins, and APIs to create instant, borderless payments. He emphasizes omni-channel strategy, customer choice, and open interoperable systems while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Stellar Community Fund hosts February 2026 Mainnet Demo Day featuring three live projects: Centive (cross-border payment infrastructure processing $20M+ volume), Rival Finance (Brazilian agricultural credit tokenization on Stellar), and ChimpDAO (NFT-linked physical merchandise with on-chain utility).

Khan from the Stellar Development Foundation explains Stellar Private Payments (SPP), a zero-knowledge proof-based privacy solution built by NetherMind that enables confidential transactions on Stellar while maintaining compliance through Association Set Providers.

Nethermind's Stellar Private Payments (SPP) brings zero-knowledge privacy to Stellar using Protocol X-Ray, enabling compliant private transactions through Association State Providers (ASPs) for enterprises and users.

Sven Walfels, co-founder of Monerium, discusses the first fully regulated e-money stablecoins issued on blockchain in Europe. Monerium offers on-chain euros and sterling backed by high-quality liquid assets, integrated with SEPA for seamless bank-to-wallet transfers and partnerships with MetaMask and Gnosis Pay for debit card spending.

Stellar processed 21.5 billion operations in 2025 with 10.3 million unique users, maintaining 99.99% uptime. Major institutions including Franklin Templeton, PayPal, and the Marshall Islands deployed real-world assets and payments on the network, with RWAs surpassing 1 billion and payment volume reaching 55.6 billion.

Stellar's 2025 year in review showcased major institutional adoption, with 55.6 billion in payment volume, 785 million in real world assets on-chain, and key deployments from Franklin Templeton, PayPal, US Bank, and the Marshall Islands. Protocol upgrades like Whisk and X-Ray enabled enterprise-grade scale and privacy.

Stellar's 2025 year in review highlights record adoption with 21.5 billion operations, 10.3 million users, and 1 billion in real-world assets. Major institutions like Franklin Templeton, PayPal, and the Marshall Islands deployed production systems on Stellar, while protocol upgrades WISC and X-Ray enabled enterprise-scale performance and privacy.

A Stellar ecosystem community event in Rio de Janeiro featuring multiple project pitches including Vansys (buy-borrow-pay app), Spectra (cross-anchor identity solution), Solos Swap (liquidity aggregator), Automated Finance (workflow automation), and discussions on Web3 regulation and RWA tokenization.

Panel discussion on redefining payments through stablecoins and blockchain rails. MoneyGram, AirTM, and Crossmint discuss cross-border remittances, settlement speed, and building accessible payment experiences on Stellar.

A podcast interview with AirTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses the company's 11-year journey solving cross-border payment challenges using stablecoins on Stellar, from Venezuela's hyperinflation to enterprise payroll for 250,000 workers in 150 countries. AirTM excels in the 'last mile' by enabling fast, low-cost cashouts to 488 local payment methods. The conversation highlights Stellar's role, stablecoin advantages, and the need for patience in building generational fintech infrastructure.

Stellar Community Fund Mainnet Demo Day showcased six live projects: Arrel (institutional payments), Normal (synthetic assets), Trustless Work (escrow infrastructure), Attest Protocol (identity verification), Blux (wallet authentication), and Adamic (blockchain API aggregation).

U.S. Bank, Stellar Development Foundation, and PwC discuss a stablecoin pilot on Stellar designed for regulated financial institutions. The project highlights Stellar's bank-grade features: asset freezing and transaction reversal at the protocol layer, plus privacy controls for enterprise deployments.

Four infrastructure leaders discuss how payment cards bridge mainstream crypto adoption. Panelists from Polygon, Stellar, Visa, and Pi Squared share distinct strategies: Polygon focuses LATAM peer-to-peer volume; Stellar leverages batteries-included payments infrastructure; Visa integrates stablecoins into its merchant network; Pi Squared explores alternative non-blockchain payment infrastructure.

Pifo from AHA Company demonstrates Moonlight, a non-custodial privacy protocol for Stellar, showcasing the sandbox environment with account setup, quorum management, channel configuration, and private transactions between users arriving to testnet soon.

A documentary explores Argentina's economic crisis, hyperinflation, and heavy reliance on informal dollar markets and stablecoins like USDT and USDC. Despite economic improvements under President Milei, distrust in the formal banking system and high taxes drive continued adoption of stablecoins as a dollar proxy. The content reveals stablecoins bridging fiat and crypto in emerging markets facing currency instability.

Decaf and Etherfuse discuss their partnership building real-world financial services on Stellar in Latin America, focusing on sovereign debt tokenization and cross-border payments while emphasizing open ecosystem collaboration.

Stellar's Chief Product Officer Tomer Weller discusses the blockchain's evolution from cross-border payments to a booming DeFi ecosystem with smart contracts. Key highlights include partnerships like MoneyGram for on/off-ramps, recent Meridian conference announcements such as PayPal USD on Stellar, and a strong focus on advancing privacy solutions using cutting-edge cryptography. Stellar emphasizes real-world utility, financial inclusion, and metrics like transaction velocity over TVL.

Stellar's CPO Tomer Weller discusses MoneyGram's integration of USDC cash-to-crypto conversion at 400,000+ agents globally. The video covers real-world stablecoin use cases from Ukrainian refugee aid to health worker payroll in Syria and examines why legacy distribution networks matter for blockchain payments.

Rick from Decaf and Ali from UNDP's Alternative Finance Lab discuss real-world applications of blockchain for humanitarian aid, including scholarship disbursement in Rwanda and cash transfer programs in Colombia, emphasizing transparency and efficiency in global payments.

A keynote on how stablecoins and programmable money can transform everyday payments through automation, spending guardrails, and yield generation, moving beyond faster settlement to smarter financial behavior.

Panel discussion on PayFi (payment finance) featuring leaders from Polyflow, Visa, ARF, and Masari exploring how stablecoin-based solutions can reduce cross-border payment costs from 4-6% to under 1% while addressing regulatory, infrastructure, and adoption challenges in global finance.

RTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses 11 years of stablecoin payments innovation, revealing that despite proven technical superiority over PayPal, the industry remains 70x smaller and faces challenges around liquidity, consumer adoption, and coordinated ecosystem efforts to scale.

Lightning talks from Stellar Meridian featuring 21x's regulated DLT trading platform launching on Stellar, Cheesecake Labs demonstrating AI agent payments on Soroban, Solve Protocol deploying Bitcoin yield infrastructure, and Telegram Wallet integrating XLM as its first blue-chip L1 token.