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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.

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.

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.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through building full-stack dApps on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering frontend integration with Freighter wallet, TypeScript bindings, and deploying a crowdfunding example dApp to production.

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.

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.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through Rust smart contract development on Soroban, covering basics like data types and storage, then advances to a staking contract example with cross-contract calls and testing.

Paltalabs team demonstrates building a voting dApp frontend connected to Soroban smart contracts, covering wallet integration, contract invocation, and transaction signing with Soroban React library.

Spanish-language peer programming session building a voting smart contract on Soroban, Stellar's smart contract platform. Developers walk through contract development, testing in Rust, and deployment to testnet using Docker, CLI tools, and JavaScript SDK.

Tutorial on building a custom faucet for the Stellar testnet using JavaScript SDK. Demonstrates creating assets, managing accounts, and distributing tokens through a web interface.

Ana Rodriguez from Scale Mode teaches Topic 7 of the Stellar course organized by Errorgentina Programa and Haciendo Stellar, covering how to interact with the Stellar Laboratory. The session explains the differences between Testnet and Pubnet, then demonstrates practical use of the Laboratory for creating accounts, querying endpoints, building transactions, signing, and submitting them.

Ana Rodriguez teaches Stellar transactions and operations in Spanish, covering how to construct, validate, and submit transactions to the Stellar network with practical code examples using the JavaScript SDK.

Educational overview of Stellar assets, covering asset creation, issuer responsibilities, asset codes, precision handling, and control flags like authorization, revocation, and clawback capabilities.

Spanish-language tutorial introducing Stellar accounts, covering key pair generation, account creation, trust lines, sequence numbers, thresholds, signers, sponsored reserves, and account deletion via merge operations.

Educational video introducing payments on the Stellar network, covering basic payment operations, claimable balances, and practical TypeScript SDK examples for implementing cross-border transactions with asset conversion.

Jed McCaleb, Stellar co-founder, discusses his journey from early programming through Bitcoin, Ripple, and Stellar, then pivots to space exploration with Vast and AI research with Estera, reflecting on regulatory challenges in crypto and the importance of human frontiers.

Closing keynote from Meridian 2023 reflecting on Soroban's progress from preview to mainnet launch, ecosystem growth to 100+ projects, and the $100M Soroban Adoption Fund strategy for accelerating DeFi and financial inclusion.

Deep technical overview of Soroban's architecture, covering the host-guest boundary design, value types, host functions, contract storage, and resource metering that enable secure, performant smart contract execution on Stellar.