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Tutorial on creating and distributing tokens on Stellar using Merkle trees for efficient airdrop verification. Demonstrates building a token contract with claim functionality, using Soroban smart contracts and a React frontend.

Chad Oh from The Aha Company presents Scaffold Stellar, a rapid application development tool for building Stellar dApps with smart defaults and minimal setup. The talk covers the Stellar Scaffold CLI for project initialization and the Stellar Registry for publishing and managing WASM binaries on-chain.

Enrique shares his four-year journey building wallets in Stellar, discussing why smart wallets matter for user adoption and announcing XBull V2, which combines classic account benefits with smart wallet features using passkey authentication.

Marta from Stellar Core team discusses 2025 scalability achievements, including background transaction processing, parallel Soroban execution, and theoretical throughput nearly doubling to over 2400 TPS. The team is experimenting with consensus-execution pipelining to further increase throughput while maintaining latency.

Tyler from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses how AI fundamentally changes software development economics and why Stellar is uniquely positioned to secure an AI-driven future through cryptographic safeguards and zero-knowledge proofs.

Tomer, SDF Chief Product Officer, outlines Stellar's privacy strategy combining blockchain transparency with user privacy through opt-in, configurable solutions. SDF is funding privacy projects, building ZK infrastructure, and developing confidential token and private payment protocols with partners like Nethermind.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

Meridian Pay is a Stellar Smart Wallet built by SDF and Cheesecake Labs that delivers Web2-like UX on mainnet. It uses passkeys for passwordless authentication, Merkle trees for efficient token distribution, and the wallet backend for fee sponsorship and transaction indexing.

OpenZeppelin's Bojan discusses the Stellar Contracts Library, built in under a year with four audits completed. The library provides foundational smart contract tools including tokens, access controls, and innovative features like smart accounts with passkeys and real-world asset tokenization tailored for Soroban.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

Francesco from Almanacs discusses AI-powered security tools for blockchain, highlighting how AI-generated code increases attack surface and why traditional security tools fall short. Almanacs launches in the Stellar Audit Bank to provide subsidized security scans for Soroban projects.

Michael from SDF leads a panel discussion on the malicious mindset in security, exploring how questioning assumptions and thinking like an attacker helps build better, more secure products in the Stellar ecosystem.

Mule Fahreau discusses formal verification best practices for Soroban smart contracts, covering code modularity, AI-assisted refactoring, and combining AI with formal verification tools to improve security and auditability.

Artemis and Messari present data analytics platforms for Stellar ecosystem. Artemis offers Bloomberg-style crypto analytics with cross-chain comparisons and AI chat. Messari provides Portal for on-chain/off-chain data aggregation and AI Copilot for ecosystem research.

Tutorial on the redesigned Stellar Lab covering key pair generation, account creation, funding with Friendbot, and an introduction to muxed accounts for improved user experience in exchange scenarios.

Tamer from SDF and Heymanth from Goldsky demonstrate building data indexers on Stellar to track asset movements and circulating supply. They present two approaches: the open-source Stellar Composable Data Platform for custom indexing, and Goldsky Mirror for managed, simplified data pipelines.

Okiki, PM for Freighter, announced Freighter Mobile, a new reference wallet for Stellar and Soroban now live on iOS and Android. The app features a Discover tab for dApps, SEP50 NFT support, Blockade integration for transaction security, and SEP53 message signatures for safe smart contract interactions.

Lee from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses three low-level features that power great developer tools: contract specs (embedded IDL), the Soroban runtime environment, and XDR JSON for readable transaction data.

Lucien from Boundless and Matteo from NetherMind demonstrate how to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Stellar via Boundless, enabling privacy, removing transaction limits, and unlocking new DeFi applications like private AMMs through verifiable off-chain computation.

Sid from SDF presents three budget-friendly analytics approaches for Stellar Network data: Dune (paid tier starting $45/month), exporting Hubble data to DuckDB (~$4), and building local data pipelines with Stellar ETL. Protocol 23 launched on mainnet, enabling new token transfer data abstractions.

OpenZeppelin developer Steve Sinkens demonstrates monitors and relayers, open-source backend services for Stellar smart contracts. Monitors watch contracts and trigger notifications; relayers execute transactions on-chain based on custom rules. Both tools are essential for Meridian hackathon participants building on Soroban.

XBid AI demonstrates its flexible plugin system for data injection, showing how Reflector oracles feed price data to the AI agent on Stellar. The system normalizes prices and exposes observables like slope and freshness for strategies to consume.

Near Intense, a multi-chain transaction protocol, has integrated with Stellar, enabling developers to bridge assets from over 100 blockchains into Stellar applications. The integration uses a one-click API for seamless cross-chain swaps and asset bridging.

Developer builds a decentralized chat web app using Soroban smart contracts and speech-to-text API. The 13-line contract stores messages as on-chain events, eliminating need for traditional servers or databases.