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Developer walkthrough of Reflector price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering boilerplate setup, testing with ledger snapshots, and building a predictive market contract using oracle data.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the smart contract-powered sequel to Lightmeat.io. The casual trading card game leverages Soroban for asset management, introduces new mechanics like overclock and crafting currencies, and launches a beta tournament next month with monthly seasons and full battle replays.

Tomas from Cyclo Labs discusses Mercury, a Soroban-focused data indexing service, and Cyclones flash loan protocol at Stellar Meridian 2024. He explains how Mercury indexes on-chain data for DeFi applications and addresses liquidity challenges on Soroban while highlighting Stellar's technical advantages.

Developer demonstrates launching fireworks using Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, with a Node.js controller listening for blockchain events and triggering an Arduino-controlled arc igniter. Showcases Web3's potential to replace cloud services for IoT applications.

DeFi panel discussion on Stellar's Soroban featuring Axelar, Aquarius, and a yield-bearing stablecoin protocol. Speakers discuss strategies for attracting and retaining liquidity on Soroban through bridges, AMMs, lending protocols, and real-world asset tokenization.

Stellar Foundation leaders discuss the future of the DEX, validator decentralization, Soroban adoption, and ecosystem security at Meridian 2024. Key topics include replacing the classic order book with AMMs and liquidity aggregators, growing tier-one validator participation, and expanding DeFi protocols on Soroban.

Stellar Development Foundation core team lead discusses Soroban's mainnet activation, protocol upgrades including SecP256R1 for passkeys and BLS12381 for zero-knowledge contracts, and upcoming improvements like parallel execution and state archival to scale responsibly while maintaining decentralization.

Tyler Vanderhoeven demonstrates Zafeguard, a stateful policy signer service for Stellar smart wallets that enables sub-accounts to spend from a parent account under customizable spending limits, showcasing composable authentication and account abstraction on Soroban.

Lauren Thorbjørnsen, VP and Chief of Staff at the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar Meridian 2024 in London, highlighting the conference's 10-year anniversary theme of transformation, 800 expected attendees from 65 countries, and key sessions on financial inclusion, Soroban smart contracts, and emerging markets.

Speaker presents a boilerplate starter pack for the Easy A Stellar Hackathon (Oct 12, London), featuring a Soroban smart contract with key-value storage and a React dapp using the Stellar SDK. Also covers passkeys for passwordless authentication and the Anchor protocol for TradFi integration.

Tutorial on Blend Protocol, an over-collateralized lending platform on Stellar. Covers how the protocol works, testnet UI walkthrough, and how developers can build on top of it using Soroban smart contracts.

James Puccini demonstrates how to build passwordless smart wallets on Stellar using WebAuthn passkeys and Soroban contracts, enabling seamless biometric authentication without traditional wallet setup.

Alejo from Skyhitz demonstrated the platform's new smart contract launch on Stellar, enabling music NFT streaming with instant microtransactions, escrow-based revenue distribution, and email-based wallet authentication for seamless user onboarding.

Alejo Mendoza from SkyHits introduces a new smart contract platform for music NFTs on Stellar, enabling microtransactions for streams, downloads, and likes with revenue distributed to artists and investors via escrow mechanisms.

Comet is a fuzzing and formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts. The demo walks through testing a vaults contract using property-based testing, showing how to write test contracts that interact with target contracts and use the Comet CLI to run automated fuzzing on contract functions.

Nicolas, CTO of the Stellar Foundation, explains how Stellar's fee mechanisms evolved from basic bidding to sophisticated multi-dimensional resource pricing, including Cap-5, Cap-42, and Cap-46-07, to balance network sustainability, fairness, and scalability while preventing spam and ensuring equitable access.

Tomaso de Ponti, a 19-year-old Stellar consultant and co-founder of X-Cyclo Labs, discusses Soroban development roadmap including elliptic curves for zero-knowledge proofs, passkeys for smart wallets, and Mercury indexer infrastructure.

Garen Tyson from SDF explains Stellar's state archival protocol, which solves blockchain state bloat by charging rent for storage instead of one-time fees. Archived entries can be restored via Merkle proofs, with RPC nodes handling complexity transparently for users and developers.

CoinFabric, a blockchain security and auditing firm, discusses smart contract vulnerabilities, the importance of manual security audits over automated tools, and their grant-funded work with Stellar to develop static analysis tools for Soroban developers.

Comprehensive analysis of Stellar Lumens (XLM) covering token fundamentals, consensus mechanism, staking options via Soroban protocols, key use cases, competitive landscape, wallet options, and price scenarios. Discusses XLM's role in cross-border payments, asset issuance, and DeFi with current TVL of 8 million dollars.

SCF 29 pitch session featuring 30+ Stellar ecosystem projects presenting innovations across payments, DeFi, developer tools, gaming, education, and financial inclusion. Projects range from stablecoin infrastructure to smart contract platforms to real-world asset tokenization.

Workshop session on using Mercury indexer to query Stellar blockchain data without direct RPC calls. Covers setting up subscriptions, querying ledger entries, parsing XDR data, and practical examples with voting contracts.

Aquarius introduces the Soroban Yield Bridge, enabling Stellar users to earn yields from Ethereum-based assets like stETH and Aave tokens directly on Stellar. The non-custodial bridge launches with five assets and uses Reflector oracles for real-time synchronization.

Phoenix DeFi Hub, built on Soroban, launched its decentralized exchange with three liquidity pools and generated 60% of Soroban transactions on day one. The team discussed upcoming features including an NFT marketplace, bridges to other ecosystems, and mobile support via WalletConnect.