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Meru and DeFindex discuss how to generate yield on stablecoins through DeFi protocols. Meru integrates DeFindex infrastructure to offer users self-custodied returns ranging from 8-23%, with no intermediaries, no withdrawal limits, and instant interest compounding.

Stellar Development Foundation and Blockchain Acceleration Foundation showcase Impacta Bootcamp, Código Alebrije hackathon, and acceleration program results in LATAM, featuring 16 projects building on Stellar with mentorship and grants.

Marshall Islands government launched USDM1, a Treasury-backed token on Stellar, to distribute universal basic income on-chain. The initiative replaces physical cash transfers to remote populations across the scattered island nation, reaching 40+ merchants and enabling peer-to-peer transfers. IMF, SDF, and government officials discuss implementation and policy implications.

Industry leaders discuss how tokenized assets remain unproductive on-chain due to lack of distribution, composability, and integration. Key solutions include omni-chain strategies, interoperability standards, privacy protocols, and vault-based yield mechanisms to unlock capital utility.

Documentary exploring how stablecoins facilitate cross-border trade in Nigeria's informal electronics market, where merchants bypass traditional banking to access dollars for imports from China.

Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, examines why institutional adoption of blockchain requires a nuanced approach to privacy. He argues that privacy is not binary but a spectrum, with different use cases requiring different guarantees. Current privacy solutions fall into two failure modes: all-or-nothing systems like privacy pools and L2s that lack institutional nuance, and permissioned chains that sacrifice the transparency institutions value. Stellar's response: maintain a transparent base layer while providing zero-knowledge cryptography building blocks for developers to build multiple privacy protocols. The X-ray protocol upgrade enables this. Two families of private payments emerge: confidential tokens hide amounts but show senders/receivers (suitable for payroll), and privacy pools hide both amount and parties (requiring compliance controls). Weller details a compliance menu including selective disclosure, non-selective disclosure, association sets, forced withdrawals, and clawback.

Stellar and Boundless explore how institutions can deploy capital on-chain while maintaining privacy. The ecosystem now offers multiple configurable privacy models—confidential tokens to hide amounts, privacy pools to hide identities—each with distinct compliance controls for regulated use.

Tomer Weller, CPO at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses configurable privacy as the key to institutional blockchain adoption. Privacy pools and confidential tokens enable selective data protection while preserving transparency, with implementations like Stellar Private Payments now live and expected institutional adoption in 2026.

Stellar Community Fund March Demo Day showcased five mainnet projects: DevAssign (automated code review and bounty payments), Reflektor (oracle price feeds), Versprop (tokenized real estate finance), Blocksmith (Soroban development framework), and Zenix (perpetual futures exchange). All projects received BUILD awards up to $150,000 and are live on mainnet.

Stanford researcher Lisa Nestor analyzed 41 million USDC transactions on Airtm to measure stablecoin performance in cross-border payments. The data shows 96% settlement within one hour, competitive fees for micropayments, and strong evidence that open networks deliver better outcomes than closed systems.

Developer shares experience building Rhythm Slice, a Guitar Hero-style pizza game with zero-knowledge privacy contracts on Stellar, created during a gaming-focused hackathon using AI agents Claude and Anthropic to handle smart contract development and UI implementation.

Khan from SDF presents an AI resources guide for the Hack Plus Alep Rej hackathon in Mexico City, covering free AI setup, developer tools, composable protocol integration, and best practices for building on Stellar with AI assistance.

Khan from SDF presents an AI resources guide for the Hack Plus Alep Rej hackathon in Mexico City, covering free AI setup, dev tools, composable protocol integration, and starter prompts to accelerate Stellar development.

A discussion on how blockchain technology and tokenization can preserve and verify the provenance of cultural artifacts and artworks, using examples from Colombian museums and art collections.

Developer showcases Kalion, a zero-knowledge proof-based Asteroids game on Stellar that enables off-chain computation with on-chain verification. The project demonstrates how ZK proofs can handle complex, computationally intensive tasks like 60 FPS gameplay over 10 minutes, proving fair play while minting Kalean tokens to winners.

Findx hosted Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet. Discussion covered formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and the recent price manipulation incident on Stellar's DEX.

Findx hosts Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet discussing formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and lessons from a recent DeFi incident on Stellar.

Speaker discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, arguing that Stellar's infrastructure is uniquely positioned to enable autonomous agents to conduct transactions, hold funds, and earn revenue independently on-chain.

Elliott Voris from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the regional starter pack, a toolkit for developers building on Stellar in Mexico. The pack includes resources for discovering anchors like Etherfuse, working demo code, and a TypeScript library that abstracts anchor APIs to simplify on and off-ramp integration.

Khan from the Stellar Development Foundation introduces Stellar Journey to Mastery, a monthly builder challenge program designed to help developers move beyond tutorials and start building real Web3 projects with community support and feedback.

Stellar Journey to Mastery is a developer program offering monthly builder challenges and mentorship to help experienced developers turn ideas into real projects on Stellar, with hands-on support for technical decisions and project advancement.

A Stellar ecosystem developer discusses ideation strategies for new projects, emphasizing privacy solutions as underrated opportunities. They highlight the updated documentation, new AI building resources, and the ecosystem resources repository as essential starting points for developers.

Elliott Voris from the Stellar Development Foundation presents the regional starter pack, a toolkit for developers building on Stellar in Mexico. The pack includes anchor integration resources, a working demo, and TypeScript libraries that simplify on/off-ramp functionality with partners like Etherfuse, BlindPay, and AlphaPay.

Type Zero is a web3 typing game built on Stellar that uses RISC Zero's ZKVM to generate zero-knowledge proofs verifying game scores on-chain. All game logic is deterministic and verified through Soroban smart contracts, eliminating trust in frontend or backend.