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Meridian panel featuring Sam Conner of Stellar Global and Daniel Fisher of Public Node discussing how independent community initiatives are empowering the Stellar ecosystem through localized Discord communities, validator infrastructure, and content creation.

Panel discussion on tokenization and financial democratization featuring executives from Securrency, eStock, and WisdomTree. Speakers explore how blockchain-based tokenized securities can expand global access to financial markets, reduce costs, and enable compliance at scale while addressing regulatory challenges.

SDF COO Jason Chilpala moderates a panel discussion with IMF senior financial expert John Kiff and EmTech CEO Carmel Kadett on how central bank digital currencies and stablecoins can coexist, exploring CBDC design, programmable money use cases, and financial inclusion opportunities.

Nikhil Saraf from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Kelp, an automated trading bot that solves liquidity problems on Stellar's decentralized exchange by enabling market makers, traders, and anchors to create instant liquidity across asset pairs.

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.

Change, a Singapore-based remittance company, discusses scaling cross-border payments on Stellar to serve migrant workers across Asia. CEO Joe Tooson explains their hub-and-spoke model, compliance approach, and vision for instant, free, and safe remittances.

Stellar Development Foundation engineers and ecosystem validators discuss network decentralization, node operations, and tier one validator requirements at Meridian conference. Speakers cover quorum set configuration, incentive structures, and the path to becoming a tier one validator.

Lisa from the Stellar Development Foundation delivers a comprehensive Stellar 101 presentation for business leaders, covering the technology (account-based ledger, consensus protocol, asset issuance, decentralized exchange) and ecosystem (anchors, liquidity, SEPs, interoperability standards).

David Mazuris introduces STC, the Stellar Transaction Compiler, a command-line tool that makes it easier to create, examine, and debug raw Stellar transactions without writing code. The tool translates between XDR and TxRep formats, enabling developers to test transaction behavior directly on the network.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF presented progress on Turing Signing Servers, a proposal for enabling decentralized transaction creation on Stellar through programmable smart contract-like functionality without modifying the core protocol.

Three Stellar anchors demonstrated live implementations of SEP protocols for cross-border payments and fiat on/off-ramps. Settle showed SEP-24 deposit/withdrawal flows for Argentine peso and Brazilian real, Kauri demonstrated SEP-6 integration across web and WhatsApp wallets for Nigerian naira, and Tempo presented SEP-31 merchant payment flows for euro-backed stablecoins.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an open protocol meeting to discuss CAP 21, a draft proposal for generalized transaction preconditions. The CAP aims to enable payment channels, relative time locks, and time-delayed key recovery by extending account entries and replacing the time bounds field with more flexible preconditions.

Stellar protocol developers discussed CAP 35, which enables asset issuers to claw back tokens for regulatory compliance. The proposal moved from draft to final comment period after minor revisions including deprecating AllowTrust and expanding asset parameters for future delegation flexibility.

Stellar Development Foundation held its Q4 2020 quarterly call reviewing major achievements including 20 anchor services, protocol 15 upgrades, USDC integration coming Q1, and 1,819% growth in relevant asset transaction volume to $48.7M.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP-29 and CAP-35 proposals to improve regulated asset support. CAP-29 simplifies trust line authorization flags, while CAP-35 introduces asset clawback functionality for regulatory compliance and fraud recovery.

Stellar Development Foundation announced USDC is now an official chain for the stablecoin, partnering with Circle. SDF also released protocol upgrades including claimable balances and sponsored reserves, relaunched the Stellar Community Fund 2.0, and expanded anchor networks in Africa and Latin America.

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 presents Stellar Quest, a gamified technical onboarding platform launching Monday with eight challenges designed to teach developers about Stellar through hands-on tasks, XLM prizes, and collectible badges.

Stellar Development Foundation board members discuss network effects as a growth model, exploring how blockchain and open networks can achieve critical mass for adoption, particularly in emerging markets and financial inclusion.

Stellar Development Foundation and Finclusive hosted a webinar on driving financial inclusion through compliance. Finclusive, a RegTech-FinTech hybrid, provides compliance-as-a-service and operates as a U.S. on-off ramp for the Stellar network, enabling secure cross-border payments while maintaining robust AML/KYC standards.

Devnil from SDF's Voyager team presents the first version of Stellar's data analytics system, built on BigQuery and Kubernetes to enable fast historical queries and network insights. The system powers internal business analytics and will soon support real-time data, improved observability, and public visualizations.

Stellar Development Foundation launches SCF 2.0, splitting the Stellar Community Fund into two distinct funds: a 500k Lumen lab fund for experimental projects (4x yearly) and a 5M Lumen seed fund for viable businesses (2x yearly). The redesign introduces panel judges for initial filtering and flaggable quadratic voting to better allocate funds based on community sentiment.

Morley Zai from Vibrant explains how the app handles deposits and withdrawals using Stellar anchors and the SEP-24 protocol. The soft-launched Argentina-focused app lets users convert local currency to USD tokens on Stellar through a streamlined mobile interface.

Django Polaris is an extendable Django application that enables developers to build Stellar anchor servers implementing SEP standards. The talk demonstrates installing, configuring, and deploying a complete SEP24 anchor with deposit and withdrawal flows using integrations for custom banking rails and KYC.