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Fred demos Litemint's new NFT marketplace release featuring zero-friction creator onboarding, instant listing on SDEX, and advanced smart contract features like auctions and royalties, all designed to onboard non-crypto natives to Stellar.

Jay Cudmore from Aquarius discusses the project's migration to Soroban, including new AMM features with variable fees, stable swap pools, and a shift from hourly rewards to on-demand claims. Aquarius is also exploring a potential third airdrop in partnership with the community.

Phoenix DeFi Hub, a suite of DeFi protocols launching on Soroban, announced an NFT marketplace and standard as their next protocol after their decentralized exchange. The team discussed their experience building on Soroban, token utility plans, and integration with anchors for fiat onboarding.

Soroswap, an AMM and DEX aggregator built on Soroban, launched on Mainnet. The team discussed how Soroswap enables swaps for custom Soroban tokens unavailable on Stellar Classic, with transaction costs 1000x lower than Ethereum and plans to aggregate liquidity across multiple protocols.

Francesco from Unchain AI discusses web3 security tools built for Stellar and Soroban, including wallet screening APIs, smart contract monitoring (Web3 SOC), and an open-source smart contract catalog with GPT-4 integration for vulnerability detection.

Tutorial demonstrating SourceApp's asset swapping functionality on Soroban, covering how to trade Soroban-native tokens, wrap Stellar Classic assets, create liquidity pools, and execute trustless swaps without permission.

Stellar Development Foundation Q4 2023 quarterly review covering 92 million payments processed, $1.3B in asset transaction volume, Soroban protocol 20 upgrade timeline (now targeting February 20), 100% project type representation in Soroban MVE, and 2024 roadmap focused on everyday financial services.

Aquarius presents its roadmap for building AMMs on Soroban, featuring constant product and stable swap models with customizable fees. The project seeks SCF 23 funding to complete smart contracts, interfaces, and documentation ahead of Soroban Phase 1 and 2 launch.

Muli Sagif, CEO of Certora, discusses formal verification for smart contracts and announces Soroban support for their verification platform at Meridian in Madrid. Certora is expanding beyond EVM to WebAssembly and Rust, bringing formal verification tooling to the Stellar ecosystem.

Aquarius submitted four smart contracts for Soroban mainnet testing and community feedback, including router, token, constant product, and stable swap pool contracts. The team aims to launch day one on Soroban mainnet with audits scheduled for next month.

Panel discussion on AMMs and swap functionality in Soroban ecosystem featuring builders from Phoenix, Soroswap, and Comment. Panelists discuss liquidity incentivization strategies, developer challenges, security considerations, impermanent loss mitigation, and the role of oracles and indexers in DeFi infrastructure.

Panel discussion featuring founders of three Soroban lending protocols: Slender (compounded lending), Trilobyte (cash flow financing for Cuba), and XLR Labs (tokenized T-bills and repo lending). Speakers discuss how lending primitives drive DeFi ecosystem growth and financial inclusion.

Beans app integrates with Blend protocol to enable users to deposit stablecoins in lending pools and earn yield while maintaining a traditional banking UX. The integration allows seamless conversion between fiat and digital currencies with zero fees.

Julian Martinez and Chad from AHA Labs demonstrate how to build DeFi applications on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering liquidity pools, swaps, and TypeScript bindings for frontend integration.

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.

Panel discussion on DAO governance solutions for Soroban featuring FXDAO, ElioDAO, CommunityDAO, and BlockScience. Panelists discuss native features, accessibility, and governance models tailored for emerging markets and community-driven protocols.

Tomer from SDF presented Soroban, Stellar's new smart contracts platform built on WebAssembly and Rust. The talk covered Soroban's architecture, security tooling including a new Audit Bank and Certora partnership, and live demos of DeFi applications like Blend lending protocol and Beans app enabling cash-to-yield access.

Soroban smart contracts launch keynote covering three pillars: technical design decisions, 100+ ecosystem projects building on Soroban with 40 presenting, and cash-to-DeFi integration unlocking real-world asset connections.

Jisun from Vibrant demonstrates building an NFT smart contract on Soroban using Taylor Swift concert tickets as an example, covering contract initialization, minting, ownership checks, transfers, and testnet deployment.

Stellar ecosystem builders showcased 15+ projects at Meridian conference, including Comet AMM, EZA developer platform, Wavy P2P exchange, SubQuery indexer, Phoenix DEX, and infrastructure tools. Focus on DeFi primitives, real-world assets, and developer onboarding on Soroban.

Tomer from SDF and Deanne from Cubist discuss WebAssembly's role in Soroban smart contracts, covering design decisions around WASM 1.0, interpreter vs. compiler tradeoffs, Rust as the primary language, and security considerations for WASM runtimes.

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.

Tyler Vanderhoeven, developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation, demonstrates how to bridge Stellar assets into Soroban smart contracts using Stellar asset contracts, enabling seamless interoperability between the two layers.

Fred from Lightmean demonstrates how to build Web3 games on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering gameplay validation, NFT rewards, in-game currency management, and Freighter wallet integration with a live pool physics game demo.