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The Stellar Developer Meeting features the OpenSapplin team presenting Q4 2025 library releases: WAD for high-precision decimal arithmetic in Soroban smart contracts, fee abstraction for paying transaction fees with tokens like USDC instead of XLM, and the timelock module as the start of a governance package. These tools enhance developer experience, enable smart account functionality via relayers, and improve contract governance transparency and safety. The team highlights ongoing momentum and community adoption.

Step-by-step tutorial on setting up Freighter wallet, activating it with XLM, and exploring Stellar dApps like ZoroSwap for token swaps and asset management.

OpenZeppelin releases smart account libraries for Stellar smart contracts, enabling programmable authorization systems with context rules, signers, and policies. The demo showcases USDC payments, forex swaps, and multisig treasury operations.

A technical walkthrough of an auto-compounding USDC vault built on Stellar using Blend Protocol, OpenZeppelin vault libraries, and Comet DEX. The vault automatically claims BLND rewards, swaps them to USDC, and reinvests them for users.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and multi-chain product strategy featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights inform product decisions and marketing strategies in web3, emphasizing user experience abstraction over technical complexity.

Developer builds a selective disclosure KYC system using zero-knowledge proofs and BLS ring signatures on Stellar Soroban. Users can prove attributes like residency or age without revealing full identity, with credentials verified on-chain while personal data stays off-chain.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Miocene, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

Joaquín Farfán leads a hands-on workshop deploying a smart contract on Stellar's testnet using Soroban and Rust, demonstrating how developers can build financial applications with real-world impact in Latin America.

At the Zama CoFHE Shop, the Stellar Development Foundation and Predicate discussed the emerging balance between privacy, compliance, and auditability on blockchains. SDF's Chief Product Officer Tomer argued that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to privacy. Instead, Stellar is building the cryptographic primitives so developers can layer whatever privacy solutions their use cases require. Predicate's head of business development emphasized that privacy and compliance evolve together, not sequentially. Key blockers to adoption include the lack of user-friendly products and regulatory uncertainty. SDF announced Protocol 25 X-Ray, bringing cryptographic building blocks (pairing-friendly elliptic curves, Poseidon hash functions) to Stellar, along with integrations for Noir, a zero-knowledge DSL, and RISC-Zero verifiers. SDF is collaborating with Nethermind on Stellar Private Payments, a privacy-preserving protocol based on Privacy Pools research, and shipping a confidential tokens implementation. The consensus: the cryptographic infrastructure is ready; the market needs better products and regulatory clarity.

BrightTech released Stellar Wallet Kit v2, the popular SDK for integrating Stellar wallets into frontend applications. The video demonstrates setup, wallet connection, and transaction signing in both React and Vanilla JS with live examples.

OpenZeppelin presents new Stellar smart contract libraries including a smart account framework for passkey-based authorization, an ERC-4626 compatible token vault, and real-world asset (RWA) contracts with identity and compliance modules.

OpenZeppelin presents their managed Stellar Relayer service with a channels plugin for parallel transaction processing. The service enables gasless, high-throughput transactions on Stellar with automatic fee bumping and sequence number management.

Developer builds open-source Rust tool for efficient Stellar data access, combining RPC nodes and public data lake queries with REST API and command-line interfaces.

Scaffold Stellar tutorial covering smart contract development on Stellar, including project setup, the guess-the-number contract walkthrough, and improvements like moving random number generation to the constructor and better error handling.

Pam and Willem from AHA Company introduce the Stellar Registry and Registry CLI, a package manager for Soroban smart contracts that enables human-readable naming, versioning, and simplified contract deployment and upgrades on Stellar.

OpenZeppelin's UI Builder tool for Stellar enables developers to quickly create interactive frontends for smart contracts on Stellar Mainnet and Testnet without extensive coding, featuring React components, form customization, and export capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.