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Scaffold Stellar by AHA Labs is a Rust-based development framework that provides a complete boilerplate for building Soroban smart contracts with pre-integrated frontend wallet support, enabling developers to initialize projects, deploy contracts, and iterate in real-time.

Sertora presents Sunbeam, a formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts that uses SMT solvers to mathematically prove code correctness against specifications written in Rust, enabling developers to catch bugs early in the development cycle.

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.

Cyber Brawl, a Stellar blockchain game, has launched smart contracts and major new features including three new currencies (Ion, Shard, Kel), reward multipliers, daily/hourly reward pools, quests, and an upcoming auction house for trading cards and assets.

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.

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.

Fred walks through Cyberball Alpha's new quest system, which went live alongside the Cyber Vault. The game shifts credits to a deflationary model with a daily pool system, hourly rewards, and multipliers based on Kale holdings, avoiding the inflation problems seen in traditional MMOs.

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.

Penfield (Tupuy) discusses Tansu, a decentralized platform built on Soroban that brings transparency and community governance to open source projects by storing commit hashes on-chain, enabling DAOs per project, and implementing anonymous voting.

Coding with Kale Pill episode featuring Elliot Friend discussing NFT development on Soroban using OpenZeppelin contracts. The session covers NFT contract architecture, metadata handling with IPFS, and practical implementation of generative NFTs on Stellar's smart contract platform.

Stellar DevX team showcased new Stellar Lab features for smart contracts, including contract explorer, storage management, and an upcoming invoke contract UI. OpenZeppelin presented a new upgradeable smart contract standard (SAP) for Soroban.

Developer builds AI-powered MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on Cloudflare that dynamically exposes Stellar smart contract interfaces to LLMs, enabling voice-controlled token deployment and contract interaction without manual signing or XLM management.

Garen Tyson from SDF explains state archival, Stellar's solution to blockchain state bloat. The protocol uses rent-based storage fees and Merkle proofs to archive inactive entries, reducing validator costs while maintaining security and user experience through RPC abstraction.

Nick Neumann demonstrates building remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers on Cloudflare to enable AI models like Claude to interact with Stellar smart contracts dynamically, including deploying tokens and managing transactions through smart wallets without storing secret keys.

Palta Labs presented ZoroSwap, a decentralized exchange (AMM) built on Stellar's Soroban, demonstrating token swaps, liquidity pools, and smart contract architecture. The team discussed DeFi opportunities on Stellar and answered questions about integration, wallet support, and yield strategies.

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.

Paltalabs team presents DeFi products built on Stellar, including ZoroSwap DEX and Defindex protocol, while discussing blockchain fundamentals, developer opportunities through Stellar Community Fund grants up to $150k, and real-world applications like music tokenization via SkyHits.

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.

Tomer from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses how Stellar's new smart contracts VM enables a DeFi ecosystem that bridges traditional finance and crypto, emphasizing financial inclusion, developer security support, and bottom-up innovation over waiting for institutional adoption.

A deep dive into Kale, a proof-of-teamwork mining token on Stellar that uses hash mining, staking, and time gaps to distribute rewards. The speaker demonstrates how invocation counts have grown dramatically post-launch, discusses technical challenges like failed transactions and surge pricing, and shows how to set up a Kale farmer on a Raspberry Pi.

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.

Orbit Lens presented Stellar Broker, a multi-source liquidity swap router addressing fragmented liquidity across classic Stellar and Soroban protocols, plus updates to Stellar Expert's smart contract analysis and transaction tracking features.

OpenZeppelin announces a two-year partnership with Stellar to improve developer experience through Soroban contract libraries, the OpenZeppelin Wizard for Stellar, and developer tooling including relayers, monitors, and code analysis.