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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.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference on simplifying crypto UX through wallet infrastructure, stablecoins, and remittances. Speakers from Stellar, Privy, and Beans discuss hiding blockchain complexity to enable mainstream adoption.

PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin is now live on Stellar. The USD 1.3 billion market cap stablecoin has grown 160% year-to-date and will enable checkout at millions of PayPal merchants through Stellar wallets with sub-1% fees.

Panel discussion on stablecoin adoption in emerging markets featuring Vesio, Digibank, Plexus Institute, and filmmaker Justin Norman. Speakers shared ground-level insights on how stablecoins are solving real problems in Argentina, Brazil, Syria, and other regions through localized solutions and last-mile infrastructure.

Legal experts from the U.S. and Brazil discuss crypto regulation at Meridian 2025, covering the Genius Act for stablecoins, the Clarity Act, Brazil's Central Bank oversight framework, and how clear regulation can foster innovation while protecting investors.

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

MoneyGram launches next-generation app in Colombia enabling instant USDC transfers on Stellar blockchain, positioning itself as the largest crypto cash on/off ramp bridging physical and digital payments for financial inclusion.

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.

Circle's Daniel Pérez discusses CCTP v2 coming to Stellar in Q1 2026, enabling deeper liquidity and lower-cost remittances across Latin America. The integration addresses regulatory clarity and builder needs in the region.

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.

Meridian conference panel featuring Arculus tap-to-pay hardware wallets, PwC guidance on enterprise blockchain adoption, Alfred's stablecoin payment infrastructure across Latin America, and Mercado Bitcoin's 1.5B reais in tokenized credit on Stellar.

Institutional leaders from Fidelity, S&P Global, and the Stellar Development Foundation discuss barriers to institutional RWA adoption at the Brooklyn summit. Panelists identify regulated custody standards, on-chain compliance automation, distribution mechanisms via yield-bearing stablecoins, and policy clarity as critical requirements for bringing digital assets into traditional finance at scale.

A yield farming strategy tutorial demonstrating how to boost USDC yields from 16% to over 38% on Stellar by combining Blend lending, XLM borrowing, FxDAO collateralization, and looping cycles.

Tutorial on earning passive income with XLM using FXDAO stablecoin minting and Blend Capital lending pools. Demonstrates strategies combining collateralized stablecoin generation with yield farming to generate 19-75% returns on deposited XLM.

Donnell Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar's ambitious $3 billion RWA goal for the year and the network's early leadership in tokenization since 2019 with Franklin Templeton. He covers the evolution from tokenized fiat and gold to native on-chain securities, stablecoins like PYUSD launching on Stellar, and benefits like reduced OPEX, 24/7 yields, and collateral mobility. Regulatory clarity is accelerating adoption, validating Stellar's long-term vision.

Société Générale Forge and Upheaval discuss launching bank-backed stablecoins on Stellar, covering regulatory compliance, ecosystem partnerships, and the challenges of integrating with DeFi protocols while maintaining institutional oversight.

Tomer Weller, CPO at Stellar, discusses real-world stablecoin adoption including RTM wallet processing $1.2B annually, aid distribution in Ukraine, and the MoneyGram partnership enabling USDC off-ramping across 400,000 agents globally.

Danielle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses why stablecoin adoption is accelerating now after years of infrastructure building. She attributes the shift to improved regulation, better UX design, and growing institutional interest in using blockchain for payments and treasury management.

Société Générale Forge and Upheaval discuss issuing bank-backed stablecoins on Stellar, covering regulatory compliance, ecosystem partnerships, and DeFi integration challenges for institutional asset issuers.

At PMLS 2025 Day 3, four payments industry leaders debate stablecoins as the next global payment rail. Panelists from Stellar, PayPal, Bridge, and Google discuss regulatory clarity, infrastructure abstraction, and pathways to mainstream adoption.

Panel discussion on stablecoin adoption drivers featuring leaders from Stellar Development Foundation, Squads, and Greenfield Capital. Panelists project stablecoin market growth to 500 billion to 1 trillion USD within 18 months, driven by institutional adoption, regulatory clarity, and real-world use cases like B2B payments and treasury management.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation announced PYUSD, PayPal's stablecoin, will launch on Stellar this summer. Danelle Dixon discussed how this partnership enables low-fee cross-border payments and financial services for underbanked populations globally.

Orbit CDP is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on Stellar's Blend that lets users mint collateralized stablecoins for any currency with a price feed, from Mexican pesos to Brazilian reals. The team is launching with blind pay integration for zero-fee on/off-ramping and building Hermes, a perpetual exchange for FX trading.