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Tutorial on creating and distributing tokens on Stellar using Merkle trees for efficient airdrop verification. Demonstrates building a token contract with claim functionality, using Soroban smart contracts and a React frontend.

Cyberworld launches its Auction House, a fully decentralized marketplace built on Stellar that lets players trade in-game items for USDC, XLM, KEL, or other assets, bringing true ownership and real-world value to gaming economies.

Stellar developers discussed CAP74, which adds BN254 pairing-friendly curve support to Soroban via three new host functions, and explored approaches for implementing Poseidon hash functions to support zero-knowledge proof use cases on the network.

Near Protocol's Dejan Radic presented Near Intents, an intent-driven cross-chain swap protocol that recently integrated Stellar. The system enables fast, low-cost cross-chain transactions through a market maker model, with Stellar seeing approximately 200k cumulative volume since integration on August 19th.

Lightning talks from Stellar Meridian featuring 21x's regulated DLT trading platform launching on Stellar, Cheesecake Labs demonstrating AI agent payments on Soroban, Solve Protocol deploying Bitcoin yield infrastructure, and Telegram Wallet integrating XLM as its first blue-chip L1 token.

Okiki, PM for Freighter, announced Freighter Mobile, a new reference wallet for Stellar and Soroban now live on iOS and Android. The app features a Discover tab for dApps, SEP50 NFT support, Blockade integration for transaction security, and SEP53 message signatures for safe smart contract interactions.

Tutorial on the redesigned Stellar Lab covering key pair generation, account creation, funding with Friendbot, and an introduction to muxed accounts for improved user experience in exchange scenarios.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

Circle's Daniel Pérez discusses CCTP v2 coming to Stellar in Q1 2026, enabling deeper liquidity and lower-cost remittances across Latin America. The integration addresses regulatory clarity and builder needs in the region.

Artemis and Messari present data analytics platforms for Stellar ecosystem. Artemis offers Bloomberg-style crypto analytics with cross-chain comparisons and AI chat. Messari provides Portal for on-chain/off-chain data aggregation and AI Copilot for ecosystem research.

Civitas ID, a human-centered digital identity system for displaced persons and refugees, is being built on Stellar to solve the invisibility crisis affecting 123 million displaced people globally. The platform aims to bridge humanitarian aid dependency into formal economic participation through portable, verifiable credentials.

Enrique shares his four-year journey building wallets in Stellar, discussing why smart wallets matter for user adoption and announcing XBull V2, which combines classic account benefits with smart wallet features using passkey authentication.

Stellar Development Foundation announced major expansions to the Stellar Disbursement Platform, adding one-off payments, USDC purchasing, and smart wallet support. A case study showed GIZ using SDP to pay healthcare workers in Syria, reducing payment times from months to days and saving 400,000 euros annually.

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

Tamer from SDF and Heymanth from Goldsky demonstrate building data indexers on Stellar to track asset movements and circulating supply. They present two approaches: the open-source Stellar Composable Data Platform for custom indexing, and Goldsky Mirror for managed, simplified data pipelines.

Lucien from Boundless and Matteo from NetherMind demonstrate how to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Stellar via Boundless, enabling privacy, removing transaction limits, and unlocking new DeFi applications like private AMMs through verifiable off-chain computation.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

NetherMind's ZK engineering team presented a privacy solution for Stellar using zero-knowledge proofs and privacy pools with regulatory compliance, addressing the blockchain's transparency-by-design limitation while enabling opt-in privacy for users.

Stellar Development Foundation research team discusses performance and scalability improvements including JIT execution for Soroban contracts, parallel processing strategies, network overlay optimization, and consensus protocol enhancements targeting sub-second latency.

In a fireside chat at a Stellar event, Tomer from Stellar Development Foundation interviews Simon Baxes from Layer 0 about their upcoming integration, making Stellar the 143rd chain connected to Layer 0's cross-chain messaging protocol. Layer 0, handling 82% of cross-chain messaging volume and $10B monthly, enables native asset transfers for issuers like Tether and PayPal without wrapping risks. The integration promises sub-second, gasless swaps and universal interoperability, supercharging Stellar's payments and finance ecosystem.

RTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses 11 years of stablecoin payments innovation, revealing that despite proven technical superiority over PayPal, the industry remains 70x smaller and faces challenges around liquidity, consumer adoption, and coordinated ecosystem efforts to scale.

Lee from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses three low-level features that power great developer tools: contract specs (embedded IDL), the Soroban runtime environment, and XDR JSON for readable transaction data.

Beans, Blend, and DeFindex collaborate to enable non-custodial yield earning for everyday users. The integration abstracts DeFi complexity, allowing Beans users to earn 10x+ bank rates on stablecoins through automated Blend lending strategies without seeing gas fees or technical details.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference in Rio on real-world asset tokenization. Speakers from WisdomTree, Red Swan CRE, R-Chats, and Kymeta discuss RWA market growth from $30B on-chain, regulatory progress, and the importance of DeFi utility for driving adoption beyond money markets and treasuries.