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Colton from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses best practices for building usable Stellar applications, covering Stellar Ecosystem Proposals (SEPs), interface simplification, and user education strategies.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a virtual roundtable on a new SEP (Stellar Ecosystem Proposal) for send-receive transactions, discussing technical standards for anchor-to-anchor cross-border payments, KYC requirements, and protocol design decisions with ecosystem participants from Tempo, SatoshiPay, and Kauri.

Tyler Vanderhoeven explains path payments, a core Stellar feature that moves value through the decentralized exchange by routing assets across multiple order books. Path payments enable market orders, cross-asset payments, and liquidity provision without manual exchange interaction.

Calvary Systems launched NGNT, a fiat-backed Nigerian Naira token on Stellar, enabling instant cross-border payments to Nigeria. The token integrates with Nigeria's banking infrastructure (NIBS) and is already used by payment operators like Tempo and SatoshiPay.

Donnell Dixon, SDF Executive Director, announced major organizational changes at Meridian including burning 50 billion lumens, right-sizing capital allocation, hiring a CMO, and refocusing the foundation's mission on creating equitable access to the global financial system through strategic pillars and ecosystem support.

Stellar Development Foundation leadership discusses protocol improvements, WorldWire launch, network growth challenges, and the organization's new direction under executive director Danelle Dixon. Key protocol 11 updates include dynamic fee handling and per-operation limits to improve network efficiency.