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Stellar launches Audit Bank, a community initiative providing developers with subsidized security audits from leading firms. Projects pay only 5% upfront, refundable if critical bugs are fixed within 20 days, with follow-up audits free after reaching $10M-$100M TVL milestones.

DevRel team member shares practical AI coding workflow using tools like Lovable, Cursor, and Claude to build faster. Demonstrates one-shotting an Asteroids game, discusses MCP servers for context, and explores AI agents for autonomous development.

Tutorial demonstrating how to build a passkey-enabled smart wallet application on Stellar using PasskeyKit, enabling biometric authentication and decentralized user credential systems without centralized backends.

Two developers live-code a fungible token and NFT contract on Soroban using the Soroban Playground, a new web-based IDE for smart contract development. They deploy working contracts to testnet and explore the contract explorer interface.

OpenZeppelin released a new NFT royalties extension for Stellar's Soroban smart contracts, enabling developers to set up and earn royalties on NFT collections. The tutorial demonstrates how to deploy and configure the royalty contract on testnet.

Vivo from Ahlabs demonstrates Scaffold Stellar, a comprehensive developer framework for building on Stellar and Soroban. The tool includes CLI plugins, contract templates, local deployment, TypeScript client generation, and an integrated contract explorer frontend.

Scaffold Stellar is a new developer tool from Aha Labs that provides a ready-to-use web3 app template for building on Stellar. It includes contract examples, wallet integration, and local network setup to eliminate boilerplate and accelerate dApp development.

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.

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.

Tutorial on building a custom stablecoin on Soroban using OpenZeppelin contracts. The creator demonstrates how to create a SEP41 token called JUSD that accepts USDC deposits and mints a corresponding stablecoin in a 1:1 ratio, using a new online IDE.

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.

Tutorial on using OpenZeppelin's Monitor software to track USDC transfers on the Stellar network and send real-time notifications to Telegram. Covers setup, configuration, contract interaction, and bot integration.

Tutorial on creating and deploying an NFT smart contract on Stellar's Soroban network using OpenZeppelin libraries, including contract modifications, metadata creation, and testnet deployment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Educational overview of Stellar anchors, their four main types, and the Stellar Anchor Platform. Covers how anchors bridge traditional finance and digital assets, with practical deployment via Docker and MoneyGram as a real-world use case.

StellarQuest bootcamp walkthrough covering wallet setup with Albedo, account creation on Stellar testnet, and payment transactions using Stellar Lab. Participants earned NFTs by completing each mission step.

Carlos from Flipside discusses how on-chain analytics and data curation drive blockchain ecosystem growth, focusing on metrics like TVL, user engagement scores, and protocol differentiation to help communities understand and optimize their on-chain activity.

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.