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Danelle Dixon, SDF Executive Director, discusses Stellar Meridian Conference highlights including USDL launch, wallet ecosystem growth across MoneyGram, Tala, and Decaf, and Soroban's path to billion-dollar TVL through real-world asset tokenization and traditional finance partnerships.

James Puccini demonstrates how to build passwordless smart wallets on Stellar using WebAuthn passkeys and Soroban contracts, enabling seamless biometric authentication without traditional wallet setup.

Cyberball Alpha released a new update with multiple login options including MetaMask and Freighter wallet integration, plus account import from Lightmeat.io. Alpha testing continues for one more week with community feedback welcome.

Developer demonstrates major smart wallet updates for Soroban including P256R1 and ED25519 signing curves, multi-signature support, and policies that restrict signer capabilities without requiring transaction pop-ups.

ZK Cross Network launches Super Accounts on Stellar, enabling one-click bridging of liquidity from 100+ fiat currencies and blockchains to Stellar. The feature abstracts DeFi complexities like gas swapping and bridging through chain abstraction infrastructure.

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.

Comprehensive guide to earning money in the Stellar ecosystem through yield farming, liquidity provision, and governance participation across platforms like Aquarius, Blend, Ultra Stellar, and others, with yields ranging from 4% to 6000%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.