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SDF hosted the Stellar Community Fund 12 project pitch event featuring 10 Soroban and Stellar ecosystem projects presenting their proof of intent deliverables, including developer tools, DeFi protocols, infrastructure, and financial inclusion applications.

Lightecho is a crypto exchange rate search engine that helps traders find the best prices across decentralized, centralized, and instant exchanges for pairs like XLM, XRP, and stablecoins, emphasizing self-custody and security.

Shift Markets announced Cables, a semi-decentralized exchange coming to Stellar that combines centralized liquidity with user self-custody, enabling faster cross-border payments and trading with better rates than traditional channels.

Panel discussion on liquidity provision for Stellar cross-border payments, featuring Script3's money market protocol and ARF's credit line product for financial institutions. Speakers explore how DeFi infrastructure enables capital efficiency in remittances and FX markets.

Panel discussion on blockchain's role in financial inclusion, featuring experts from Nigeria, UN, AFI, and academia debating whether blockchain represents hope or hype for expanding economic opportunities in developing nations.

Aquarius, a liquidity management layer for Stellar, incentivizes market making and liquidity provision through the Aqua token. The platform has distributed 107 million payments across 156,000 wallets since launch in May 2021, with plans to integrate Soroban smart contracts for further decentralization.

Torsten from Pendulum presents Spacewalk, a decentralized bridge connecting Stellar to Polkadot through Pendulum parachain. The bridge uses a novel vault-based architecture with collateralization and a Stellar Oracle to ensure security comparable to Stellar consensus.

Script3's Alex Moots discusses building a decentralized money market on Stellar's Soroban smart contract platform, highlighting how Soroban's interoperability with Stellar Classic and flexible authorization enable efficient DeFi protocols tailored to Stellar's anchor ecosystem.

Torsten Stuber, CTO of SatoshiPay and Pendulum, discusses building Pendulum as a standalone blockchain with smart contracts and Spacewalk, a decentralized bridge connecting Stellar to Polkadot parachains. The bridge uses collateralization to ensure security and launches on Kusama in Q3 2024.

Louisa from Stellar Development Foundation's BD partnerships team discusses key ecosystem partnerships including Coinbase, Fireblocks, and OKCoin, and explains the strategy to expand Stellar's utility beyond payments into DeFi and tokenized assets.

Justin Rice, head of ecosystems at SDF, discusses Stellar's protocol upgrade process, recent features like asset clawback and AMMs, and upcoming changes including payment channels and dynamic fee management at South by Southwest.

Stellar Open Protocol meeting discussing CAP 42 (multi-part transaction sets) and CAP 44 (SpeedX configuration). CAP 42 is ready for committee vote; CAP 44 requires further work on asset selection governance and validator responsibilities.

Script3 discusses building YieldBlocks, a money market protocol on Stellar using Stellar Turrets for off-chain smart contract execution. The team explains their journey from options trading to recognizing the need for liquidity infrastructure, and how Turrets enable DeFi applications on Stellar.

Stellar Development Foundation held an open protocol discussion covering CAP 21 and CAP 40 approvals moving to final comment period, revised CAP 42 on multi-part transaction sets with validator fee control, and initial discussion of CAP 44 on SpeedX configuration for a decentralized exchange.

SDF Q4 2021 recap: 10 new anchors joined Stellar, Enterprise Fund invested $80.25M in 8 companies, Stellar Community Fund awarded $4M to 31 winners. Network processed 2B+ operations in 2021, payments grew 211% YoY. Protocol 18 enabled AMMs; MoneyGram pilot launched; smart contracts coming in 2022.

Panel discussion on Stellar's growth trajectory featuring leaders from Settle Network, Liquid Group, SatoshiPay, and Securrency debating the network's focus on remittances versus broader use cases, DeFi adoption via Protocol 18 AMMs, and scalability challenges.

Jeff Ramsire presents SpeedX, a scalable batch-based DEX design that eliminates front-running, optimizes liquidity across asset pairs, and enables parallelizable transaction processing. The system could integrate into Stellar to support efficient cross-border payments at scale.

Tomer Weller outlines Stellar's 2022 tech strategy, highlighting three priorities: layer one scalability targeting 5,000 TPS via SpeedEx, cryptocurrency bridges to other ecosystems, and trust-minimized innovation. The network achieved 99% ledger closure within 7 seconds and AMMs reached $14M in liquidity within two weeks of launch.

SatoshiPay's Torsten presents Pendulum, a blockchain connecting fiat to DeFi via Stellar. Pendulum brings smart contracts to Stellar, enabling AMMs, yield farming, and cross-chain asset transfers between Stellar and Pendulum.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Stellar Turrets, a decentralized transaction creation and signing protocol that enables DeFi applications on Stellar by removing the need for centralized intermediaries to control accounts.

Three Stellar Community Fund recipients discuss their projects: Light Mint (NFT marketplace for artists), Leaf Global FinTech (cross-border wallet for refugees), and Script3 (DeFi protocol with Yield Blocks). They share how SCF funding enabled growth and offer advice for future applicants.

Stellar Protocol 18 launched with AMM functionality built at the protocol level, enabling automated market makers that democratize liquidity provision. Two weeks post-launch, the network has 1,500+ liquidity pools, $13M+ in total value locked, and spreads on key pairs like ARS/USD have tightened to 1%, improving cross-border payment costs by 33%.

Stellar Open Protocol meeting reviewing CAP 38 (Automated Market Makers) post-implementation changes. The team validated final XDR adjustments before protocol 18 network upgrade scheduled for November 3rd, confirming AMM functionality is ready for deployment.

SDF's Q2 2021 quarterly call covering $18M in enterprise fund investments, protocol upgrades 16 and 17, CAP 38 AMM proposal, and network growth metrics showing 159% increase in payments and 36,900% growth in relevant asset transactions.