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Howard Chen from SDF presents Vibrant, a non-custodial wallet built on Stellar for Argentina that uses protocol 13 and 15 features like fee sponsorship and sponsored reserves to eliminate user friction around transaction fees and minimum balances.

Jed McCaleb and Danell Dixon discuss Stellar's growth, leadership transition, and 2020 accomplishments. The SDF expanded from 12 to 80 employees, launched Vibrant in Argentina, and focused on real-world use cases in emerging markets while navigating COVID-19 and policy engagement.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts roundtable on custodial vs non-custodial wallet design, featuring builders from Saldo MX, SatoshiPay, and D-Stock discussing key management approaches, regulatory considerations, and ecosystem needs like CAP27 multiplexed accounts and CEP30 recovery signers.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF leads a technical workshop on implementing SEP24 (interactive deposit and withdrawals) into a Stellar wallet, demonstrating how anchors and wallets interact to enable on and off ramps for fiat currencies onto the Stellar network.

Stellar Development Foundation Q2 2020 quarterly call covering Samsung blockchain key store integration, Abra partnership announcement, Protocol 13 upgrade with Fee Bumps and asset authorization features, anchor expansion strategy, and policy engagement initiatives.

Lee McCulloch from the Stellar Development Foundation presents SEP30, a key management standard designed to make account recovery user-friendly by using device keys and recovery signers instead of backing up master keys, enabling wallets like Vibrant to offer phone/email-based recovery without custodial risk.