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José Fernandez Da Ponte, a key Stellar figure, discusses why payments is becoming a compelling use case in LATAM fintech. The ecosystem is moving beyond hype cycles to infrastructure-first thinking: companies like Etherfuse, Félix, and Meru are building on Stellar not to sell crypto, but to solve real financial problems at scale. Distribution wins when 80% of users don't know they're using blockchain.

Stellar Developers meeting featuring Renat's presentation on zero-knowledge group membership proofs for Soroban contracts, followed by Kaan's overview of AI orchestration tools like Paperclip for developer workflows.

Bermuda's government announced it will move its national economy on-chain using the Stellar network, becoming the world's first fully on-chain national economy. The government approved digital asset acceptance and investment policies, and will modify its FinTech Development Fund to support the ecosystem.

Mimi Vong on the path from Wall Street hierarchy to Web3 collaboration. The Metafyed CEO shares how she let go of prestige, found purpose in RWA tokenization, and learned to build for impact, not to prove people wrong.

Spanish-language tutorial reviewing XLM wallets for Stellar, covering hot wallets (Lobster, Trust Wallet, Freighter) and cold storage options (Ledger, Trezor, Keypair), with emphasis on Stellar's tokenization potential and upcoming US regulation.

Day Zero 06 tutorial on building payment-gated servers using x402 on Stellar. Speaker demonstrates 30-line-of-code server that requires USDC payment to access premium data, and shows how to wire Claude with MCP to autonomously execute payments via Stellar transactions.

Kaan from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), explaining its two modes (charge and channel) for monetizing services on Stellar. MPP enables pay-per-request billing and high-frequency micropayments for agents and services, with a live demo showing how to implement paywalls for premium MCP tools.

BitBond Offering Manager is an enterprise SaaS platform for tokenizing securities, real estate, and bonds across blockchains including Ethereum and Polygon, with compliance features, investor onboarding, and payment collection.

Educational tutorial on developing smart contracts with Soroban, Stellar's WebAssembly-based smart contract platform. Covers the 7-step process from CLI installation to contract deployment and invocation on testnet.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2026 webinar highlights record growth: on-chain RWAs surpassed $2 billion (3x quarter-over-quarter), payment volume reached $5.5 billion (up 72% YoY), and the network now supports 10.6 million unique addresses with 99.99% uptime. Major institutions including U.S. Bank, Amundi, and Societe Generale are deploying regulated products on Stellar.

Two Stellar ecosystem projects, ArcusX and SoZu Pay, were awarded the InstaWords Award for a four-week sprint. ArcusX is building a freelance marketplace on Stellar to reduce fees and payment delays in Latin America, while SoZu Pay is developing NGO disbursement infrastructure using stablecoins and the Stellar Disbursement Platform.

Meru CEO Amilcar Kaderazo and Stellar Development Foundation's Ada Bogan discuss how neobanks powered by stablecoins are transforming financial access in Latin America, with Meru offering cross-border payments, savings, and DeFi integration for freelancers and emerging markets.

Stellar Community Fund April Demo Day featured three mainnet projects: Volta, a programmable multi-signature wallet for Soroban; Splice, a fixed-rate institutional lending platform for tokenized RWAs; and Dog Protocol, a liquid real-world asset DEX. SCF has funded over 60 projects totaling $6.4M in 2026.

A panel discussion on crypto's 2026 outlook featuring leaders from Stellar, KuCoin, Fidelity, and fintech startups. Topics covered agentic payments, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoin regulation, institutional adoption, and the need for regulatory clarity.

Jason Karsh, Stellar's new CMO, discusses the blockchain's focus on tokenization and stablecoins as infrastructure for moving value globally. He emphasizes long-term brand building over quick gains, highlighting Stellar's 2 billion in real-world assets and partnerships with institutions like Franklin Templeton.

Stellar Developers meeting covering Q1 2026 ecosystem metrics showing 2B RWA market cap and 170M DeFi TVL, MoneyGram partnership expansion to El Salvador, Aquarius hitting 50M TVL, and 260 hackathon projects including AI agents, mobile wallets, and security tools.

Stellar's X-Ray upgrade enables zero-knowledge privacy on its network through BN254 elliptic curves and Poseidon hashing, allowing optional privacy layers with compliance tools like confidential tokens and privacy pools to coexist with transparency.

Stellar Developers Meeting covering Q1 2026 ecosystem metrics, MoneyGram partnership extension, Aquarius reaching $50M TVL, and 260 hackathon projects including AI agents, security tools, and mobile-first applications.

Ray from Sertora presents threat modeling as a security methodology for Stellar protocols, introducing the 4As framework (assets, actors, assumptions, attack vectors) to identify vulnerabilities, speed up audits, and improve protocol security before and during development.

Stellar House CDMX brought together builders, regulators, and institutions across Latin America to discuss stablecoins, financial infrastructure, and blockchain adoption. Key themes included cross-border payments, regulatory clarity, privacy as institutional adoption driver, and local stablecoin opportunities.

Ray from Certora presents threat modeling as a security methodology for Stellar protocols, introducing the Four A's framework (Assets, Actors, Assumptions, Attack Vectors) to identify vulnerabilities, speed up audits, and improve protocol security before and during development.

Stellar Developer Meeting covering Protocol 26 launch on testnet, agentic payments (X402 and MPP), and a demo of NoEther, a new perpetual DEX built on Stellar with support for isolated and cross-margin trading.

Stellar Developer Meeting covering Protocol 26 testnet launch, AI agents and agentic payments (X402/MPP), $2B in tokenized RWAs on network, and live demo of NoEther perpetual DEX platform built on Stellar.

Range releases report analyzing distribution of five major stablecoins (USDC, USDT, USDG, PayPal USD, USDE) across Ethereum and Solana, revealing distinct use cases and holder profiles despite similar dollar pegs.