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Day two of Stellar DevComp focused on Rust fundamentals for Soroban smart contract development. Instructor covered data types, variables, functions, and the ownership model that makes Rust ideal for blockchain applications.

OpenZeppelin's contract wizard now integrates Stellar contracts, enabling Soroban developers to generate smart contract code through a simple point-and-click interface. This integration marks a major milestone for developer tooling in the Stellar ecosystem.

Tutorial on building and deploying Soroban tokens using OpenZeppelin Contract Wizard, which now supports Stellar. Demonstrates creating a fungible token contract with customizable features like minting, burning, and pausing, then deploying it to testnet in minutes.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

Blend Capital hosted a developer meeting showcasing Blend V2 security initiatives, including a $125,000 USDC competitive audit and formal verification competition. The first-ever open security competition in the Stellar ecosystem runs through March 17th, inviting developers to find bugs and write formal verification rules.

OpenZeppelin releases preliminary Soroban smart contract libraries for Stellar, enabling developers to build token contracts in under 100 lines of code using audited, production-ready templates.

Litemint hosted the seventh edition of its on-chain gaming tournament, Cyber Brawl, featuring live gameplay of their card game with prize pools in XLM and USDC. The beta launch tournament showcased new mechanics like overclock and demonstrated Web3 gaming with digital asset ownership on Stellar.

Roberto Durski, Senior Director of Partnerships and RWA at Stellar, discusses the network's evolution over two years, covering smart contracts via Soroban, DeFi growth, stablecoins, real-world assets, and the regulatory landscape for CBDCs and tokenized finance.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP 67 on unified event emissions for classic and Soroban assets, and CAP 63 on parallel transaction execution via staged transaction sets with TTL update semantics changes.

Stellar Development Foundation held Q4 2024 review webinar covering 18 billion total transactions, 9 million network addresses, $52 million smart contract TVL, and announced 2025 strategy focused on top-10 DeFi ranking, 5 million monthly active addresses, and $3 billion in real-world assets.

Stellar protocol 23 introduces partial state archival (CAP 62) and in-memory Soroban state (CAP 66), separating live and archived contract data into distinct databases. Live Soroban state will be cached in memory with optimized fee structures, while automatic restore functionality eliminates the need for separate restore operations in most cases.

Stellar DevRel team discusses 2025 priorities at their San Francisco offsite, highlighting focus on monthly active developers and daily smart contract invocations on Soroban. Key initiatives include passkeys, LaunchTube, and fun on-chain experiences to drive ecosystem growth.

Garand from Stellar protocol team presents State Archival, a novel solution to state bloat that assigns TTL values to ledger entries, archives expired data off-chain in Merkle tries, and defends against double restore, malicious archival, and double nonce attacks. Implementation launched on mainnet in February 2025.

A Stellar developer discusses Mercury, a data indexing service for Soroban contracts, covering how to use indexers to convert blockchain data into queryable formats, the Zephyr VM for parallel processing, and design decisions around contract storage, events, and data architecture.

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.

Tomer, Stellar's CPO, discusses the launch of Soroban smart contracts, security-first development practices, and Stellar's focus on real-world utility and financial inclusion. He highlights the Audit Bank grant program and emphasizes prevention over mitigation in DeFi security.

Tutorial on building a lending protocol smart contract on Soroban using Reflector Oracle to verify collateral values and access real-time price data from on-chain sources.

Script3 launched Blend Capital, a lending protocol primitive on Stellar's Soroban that enables customizable lending pools with algorithmic interest rates and mandatory insurance. The protocol has 5.5M TVL and is attracting integrations from wallets and real-world asset projects.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the smart contract-powered sequel to Lightmeat.io. The casual trading card game leverages Soroban for asset management, introduces new mechanics like overclock and crafting currencies, and launches a beta tournament next month with monthly seasons and full battle replays.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the sequel to Lightmeat.io, a casual trading card game on Stellar that now leverages Soroban smart contracts for asset management, multiple currencies, and seamless onboarding for non-crypto users via passkeys and social logins.

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.

Developer walkthrough of Stellar smart wallet implementation using Soroban, covering passkey signers, policy-based access control, and stateful contract patterns for secure multi-sig account management.

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.

Marcus from Script3 presented Blend Capital's five-month performance on Soroban, highlighting 237 unique wallets, $8.58M total deposits, and innovative auction-based liquidations. The team outlined future priorities: expanding wallet integrations, launching professionally risk-managed pools, and building an OTC lending framework for real-world use cases like remittance financing.