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Turkish podcast discussion about a hackathon-winning Web2/Web3 social media application project. Founders discuss their vision of creating a social platform that integrates blockchain without forcing users into Web3-only experiences.

Stellar ecosystem recap from Istanbul covering Berlin Blockchain Week, the Istanbul hackathon with 67 submissions, Beans Earn integration with Blend, DeFi Index launch, Scaffold Stellar updates, and upcoming Hack Meridian in Rio de Janeiro with 50K in prizes.

Developer migrates a Solidity perpetual futures contract to Soroban using AI tools, walking through the differences between EVM and Rust/WebAssembly development, contract simplification, and debugging with unit tests.

Chad and Feefo from Aha Labs discuss Scaffold Stellar, a developer framework designed to lower the barrier to entry for building on Stellar. The tool automates smart contract deployment, generates TypeScript bindings, and uses React with Vite for frontend development.

A technical walkthrough of a Soroban smart contract written in Rust, explaining imports, macros, data structures, storage patterns, and the require_auth security function for on-chain message storage.

Jane from SDF and Chad from Aha Labs discuss Scaffold Stellar, a developer onboarding tool inspired by Scaffold ETH. Aha Labs is building it to help developers quickly set up local networks, deploy contracts, and create UIs, with an early version available by end of May 2025.

Developer tutorial demonstrating how to build a web-based wallet using the Stellar SDK and integrate it with Blend Capital smart contracts to enable users to deposit funds and earn yield on their holdings.

Stellar developers discuss launching an idea bank to help builders discover needed projects and coordinate ecosystem development. The initiative aims to guide hackathon participants and identify gaps in the Stellar and Soroban ecosystem.

Stellar protocol developers discuss CAP 70, which introduces configurable consensus timing parameters to enable gradual block time reduction from 5 seconds toward 2.5 seconds, plus review of other protocol 23 CAPs including unified asset events and new host functions.

Axel, an AI-powered automation platform, discusses its journey from hackathon project to A16Z-backed startup, its expansion onto Stellar through the Kickstarter program, and plans to bring verifiable agent-powered automations for yield and portfolio management to underserved users.

Karsten Jacobsen from Stellar Development Foundation walks through the Guestbook demo DAP, a complete example built on Stellar using smart contracts, TypeScript bindings, and passkey authentication for wallet-less user signup and login.

Jose Toscano and Joseph Anthony built Freely, a non-custodial Stellar wallet integrated into Telegram using passkeys for authentication. Starting from a Dev.2 hackathon ticketing project, they pivoted to wallet accessibility and secured funding in early 2025.

Kyle and Pedro discuss Stellar adoption in Latin America, developer support programs, and community-driven projects. Kyle leads the Stellar Ambassador Program in Brazil and founded NearX, a blockchain developer training company. Pedro is building a gamified learning platform for Rust and Soroban development.

Bastian, a designer and entrepreneur in the Stellar ecosystem for 7 years, presents a design thinking framework for transforming ideas into minimum viable products (MVPs) that can integrate with Stellar blockchain. The session covers five stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and evaluate, with practical tools and no-code solutions.

Tutorial on deploying factory/deployer contracts on Soroban that enable creating unlimited smart contract instances from a single parent contract, covering implementation, testing, and deployment steps.

Stellar Development Foundation leaders discuss Soroban smart contracts, the anchor network with MoneyGram integration, DeFi ecosystem growth, and the Stellar Community Fund's grant program. Runtime Verification auditors highlight the quality of Soroban's Rust codebase and unique design features like state archival and batteries-included developer experience.

Tutorial on setting up and configuring a C++ GPU/CPU miner for the Kale protocol, covering compilation, build options, configuration settings, and farming strategies.

Day two of Stellar DevComp focused on Rust fundamentals for Soroban smart contract development. Instructor covered data types, variables, functions, and the ownership model that makes Rust ideal for blockchain applications.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP 67 on unified event emissions for classic and Soroban assets, and CAP 63 on parallel transaction execution via staged transaction sets with TTL update semantics changes.

Stellar protocol 23 introduces partial state archival (CAP 62) and in-memory Soroban state (CAP 66), separating live and archived contract data into distinct databases. Live Soroban state will be cached in memory with optimized fee structures, while automatic restore functionality eliminates the need for separate restore operations in most cases.

Stellar DevRel team discusses 2025 priorities at their San Francisco offsite, highlighting focus on monthly active developers and daily smart contract invocations on Soroban. Key initiatives include passkeys, LaunchTube, and fun on-chain experiences to drive ecosystem growth.

Developer demonstrates how to write and deploy an NFT smart contract in Rust to Stellar's Soroban platform, covering contract structure, IPFS metadata storage, and deployment to testnet and mainnet with live minting examples.

Garand from Stellar protocol team presents State Archival, a novel solution to state bloat that assigns TTL values to ledger entries, archives expired data off-chain in Merkle tries, and defends against double restore, malicious archival, and double nonce attacks. Implementation launched on mainnet in February 2025.