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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.

Danelle Dixon interviews Rick Martin, co-founder of Decaf, a non-custodial wallet enabling fiat-to-crypto onboarding in 200 countries. They discuss building real-world impact through accessible financial tools, trust-building, and amplifying stories of users in underserved markets.

Elliot from the Stellar Development Foundation demonstrates how to build passkey-authenticated smart wallets on Stellar using PasskeyKit and LaunchTube, eliminating the need for traditional wallet setup and seed phrases.

A speaker examines digital wallet fragmentation across payment platforms and cryptocurrencies, exploring how lack of interoperability creates consumer confusion and security risks while discussing potential solutions for unifying disparate wallet ecosystems.

Enrique from Crate Technologies discusses xBull Wallet, an open-source wallet for advanced Stellar users with hardware wallet support, and Soroban Domains, a protocol enabling human-readable usernames to replace public keys on Stellar.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, interviews Alex Holmes, CEO of MoneyGram, about their partnership to bridge traditional finance and blockchain. They discuss MoneyGram's digital transformation, the development of MoneyGram Access (built on Stellar), and their new non-custodial wallet using USDC for cross-border payments.

BP Ventures presents CEP30, Stellar's 2020 standard for wallet recovery without seed phrases. The demo shows how users can recover accounts via email, SMS, or social authentication while keeping the master key disabled for security.

Alex Cordero from the Stellar Development Foundation presented the Wallet SDK, a new developer tool that simplifies wallet integration with anchors by reducing implementation complexity from 291 lines of code to just 10 lines, while maintaining interoperability standards.

Three Stellar ecosystem wallets (Beans, Decaf, Boss Money) demonstrated integration with the Stellar Disbursement Platform, showcasing how organizations can send bulk payments globally to recipients who onboard seamlessly into crypto wallets for the first time.

Helgaard from Reive presents their fintech app builder platform that enables founders to launch financial products without building from scratch. Reive provides white-label wallet infrastructure, compliance through Wire integration, and Stellar network support to reduce time and cost to market for emerging fintech businesses.

AlfredPay, a USDC-based payments platform, launches a direct-to-bank transfer service and hybrid wallet for LATAM markets, starting with Dominican Republic operations and expanding to Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia by year-end.

Beans is a non-custodial wallet on Stellar that abstracts away crypto complexity, offering free remittances and yield-bearing savings accounts. Users can send money across currencies with zero fees and earn returns on stablecoins, Bitcoin, Ethereum, or XLM.

Panel discussion on custodial versus non-custodial wallets featuring experts from Ledger, Wirex, and academia. Panelists debate the spectrum of wallet solutions, regulatory compliance, privacy, and the role of self-custody versus institutional custody in crypto adoption.

Fabrice Deltrian, Head of Developer Ecosystem at Ledger, discusses how Ledger supports Stellar and other blockchains through open developer partnerships. Ledger recently added Stellar asset support to Ledger Live and is preparing for Soroban smart contracts integration.

Tori Samples from Leaf Global discusses building blockchain-based financial services for unbanked populations in East Africa, including feature phone support, NFT-based income for refugees, and upcoming smart contract integration for lending products.

Ji Sun from Vibrant discusses the wallet's KYC journey, comparing SEP24 (hosted deposit/withdrawal) with SEP12/SEP6 (custom KYC UI). Vibrant switched to SEP12/SEP6 for better user control, clearer branding, and improved analytics, achieving 10-second average KYC verification times.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF walks through Stellar development fundamentals, covering the Stellar stack, SDKs, transaction building with JavaScript, and delegated signing with Albedo wallet for non-custodial key management.

Howard Chen from SDF presents Vibrant, a non-custodial wallet built on Stellar for Argentina that uses protocol 13 and 15 features like fee sponsorship and sponsored reserves to eliminate user friction around transaction fees and minimum balances.

Jed McCaleb and Danell Dixon discuss Stellar's growth, leadership transition, and 2020 accomplishments. The SDF expanded from 12 to 80 employees, launched Vibrant in Argentina, and focused on real-world use cases in emerging markets while navigating COVID-19 and policy engagement.

Lee McCulloch from SDF explains SEP-30, a Stellar Ecosystem Proposal that enables user-friendly account recovery without requiring users to manage secret keys. The protocol uses multi-signature accounts and independent recovery servers, demonstrated by Vibrant wallet in Argentina.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts roundtable on custodial vs non-custodial wallet design, featuring builders from Saldo MX, SatoshiPay, and D-Stock discussing key management approaches, regulatory considerations, and ecosystem needs like CAP27 multiplexed accounts and CEP30 recovery signers.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF leads a technical workshop on implementing SEP24 (interactive deposit and withdrawals) into a Stellar wallet, demonstrating how anchors and wallets interact to enable on and off ramps for fiat currencies onto the Stellar network.

Stellar Development Foundation Q2 2020 quarterly call covering Samsung blockchain key store integration, Abra partnership announcement, Protocol 13 upgrade with Fee Bumps and asset authorization features, anchor expansion strategy, and policy engagement initiatives.

Lee McCulloch from the Stellar Development Foundation presents SEP30, a key management standard designed to make account recovery user-friendly by using device keys and recovery signers instead of backing up master keys, enabling wallets like Vibrant to offer phone/email-based recovery without custodial risk.