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Tutorial on deploying a fungible token to Stellar's Soroban network using Rust and WebAssembly, including smart contract initialization, minting, transfers, and integration with Freighter wallet and a React dApp frontend.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector, a price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering a dev contest with XRF token rewards, boilerplate code for cross-contract calls, testing with ledger snapshots, and a predictive market example built on oracle data.

Julian from the Stellar Development Foundation compares Solidity and Soroban Rust SDK for smart contract development, building identical hello world contracts in both languages and highlighting Rust's advantages for blockchain including concurrency safety and lower computational overhead.

Nicola Dare from SDF explains oracles and the oracle problem in smart contracts. She covers oracle types (software, hardware, cross-chain, compute-enabled), decentralization levels, and how leading oracles solve the challenge of maintaining blockchain security and trustlessness when accessing off-chain data.

Tutorial on Soroban smart contract constructors, explaining how they work during contract deployment, with practical examples of declaring constructors, setting storage, and deploying to testnet.

Developer tutorial on Soroban state management covering persistent, temporary, and instance storage types, rental fees for data storage, and practical code examples for storing and extending contract data on the Stellar blockchain.

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.

Chris Anataglio from Stellar Development Foundation presents FutureStack, demonstrating how passkeys and smart contract wallets simplify Web3 onboarding. The passkeys kit SDK enables developers to implement passwordless authentication using biometrics, eliminating seed phrase friction for consumer adoption.

Educational tutorial on Stellar accounts covering account structure, creation using the JavaScript SDK, Stellar Lab tools, and completing Stellar Quest challenges.

Tutorial on authentication in Soroban smart contracts, covering require_auth and require_auth_for_args functions for verifying transaction authorization, plus testing methods using mock_auth and mock_all_auth utilities.

SDF platform team showcased five hackathon projects built on the Composable Data Platform, demonstrating faster, cheaper alternatives to Horizon for trade aggregations, fraud detection, contract indexing, browser-based ingestion, and validator analytics.

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.

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.

Stellar founder reflects on the network's 10-year journey, discussing early innovations like its consensus mechanism and distributed exchange, the importance of communication and continuous innovation, and how Soroban smart contracts now enable ecosystem builders to drive growth beyond the SDF.

Cheesecake Labs shares insights on building non-custodial wallets on Stellar, covering key storage using native mobile encryption, SEP-30 key recovery with multi-signature accounts, and challenges integrating with anchors via SEP-6 and SEP-24 standards.

David Mazieres, Stellar co-founder, discusses the origins of the Stellar Consensus Protocol, drawing parallels between decentralized systems design and his earlier work on peer-to-peer file systems. He explains how the protocol was inspired by internet architecture and designed to prevent forks through network effects rather than proof-of-work.

Panel discussion on Pluralist Grants frameworks for ecosystem funding. Speakers from Stellar Development Foundation, Gitcoin, and Aura explore how decentralized, multi-program grant structures can better serve diverse ecosystem needs compared to single monolithic programs, with examples from Arbitrum and Stellar.

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.

James Pacini, Stellar developer in residence, provides a comprehensive tutorial on building Rust-based smart contracts using the Soroban SDK, covering deployment, data types, testing, and creating a decentralized application to interact with contracts on the Stellar network.

Chris Anataglio from the Stellar Development Foundation walks through building Soroban smart contracts using Rust, covering Okashi browser IDE and the Stellar CLI with live coding examples.

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.

Gemma from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the complete funding pathway for Stellar ecosystem projects, from developer initiatives through SCF Kickstart, the Stellar Community Fund, and post-launch support. SCF 6.0 introduces new award tiers, deliverable-based structures, and enhanced post-award mentorship to accelerate project launch and growth.

Chris Anitalio from the Stellar Development Foundation explains blockchain value to Web2 developers, covering data aggregation, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, and why Stellar Network excels for real-world use cases like remittances and financial inclusion.

SDF Q2 2024 review highlights 8.4M network addresses, $1.8B real-world asset payment volume, $5M SCF awards to 107 projects, and progress on state archival to address blockchain scalability.