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Scout, a static code analysis tool for Soroban smart contracts, has detected 28 issues and reached 5,000 downloads. The team plans to integrate LLMs to improve detection capabilities over the next six months.

Tyler Vanderhoeven demonstrates Zafeguard, a stateful policy signer service for Stellar smart wallets that enables sub-accounts to spend from a parent account under customizable spending limits, showcasing composable authentication and account abstraction on Soroban.

Tutorial on Blend Protocol, an over-collateralized lending platform on Stellar. Covers how the protocol works, testnet UI walkthrough, and how developers can build on top of it using Soroban smart contracts.

Alejo from Skyhitz demonstrated the platform's new smart contract launch on Stellar, enabling music NFT streaming with instant microtransactions, escrow-based revenue distribution, and email-based wallet authentication for seamless user onboarding.

Alejo Mendoza from SkyHits introduces a new smart contract platform for music NFTs on Stellar, enabling microtransactions for streams, downloads, and likes with revenue distributed to artists and investors via escrow mechanisms.

Developer demonstrates major smart wallet updates for Soroban including P256R1 and ED25519 signing curves, multi-signature support, and policies that restrict signer capabilities without requiring transaction pop-ups.

James Pacini, Stellar developer in residence, provides a comprehensive tutorial on building Rust-based smart contracts using the Soroban SDK, covering deployment, data types, testing, and creating a decentralized application to interact with contracts on the Stellar network.

Comet is a fuzzing and formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts. The demo walks through testing a vaults contract using property-based testing, showing how to write test contracts that interact with target contracts and use the Comet CLI to run automated fuzzing on contract functions.

Nicolas, CTO of the Stellar Foundation, explains how Stellar's fee mechanisms evolved from basic bidding to sophisticated multi-dimensional resource pricing, including Cap-5, Cap-42, and Cap-46-07, to balance network sustainability, fairness, and scalability while preventing spam and ensuring equitable access.

BlockScience and Stellar Development Foundation presented NeuroQuorum Governance (NQG), a sophisticated governance framework combining neural governance with quorum delegation. The system has been implemented in the Stellar Community Fund, allocating over $15 million in XLM across 300+ submissions since October 2023.

Chris Anataglio from the Stellar Development Foundation walks through building Soroban smart contracts using Rust, covering Okashi browser IDE and the Stellar CLI with live coding examples.

Garen Tyson from SDF explains Stellar's state archival protocol, which solves blockchain state bloat by charging rent for storage instead of one-time fees. Archived entries can be restored via Merkle proofs, with RPC nodes handling complexity transparently for users and developers.

Elliot from the Stellar Development Foundation demonstrates how to build passkey-authenticated smart wallets on Stellar using PasskeyKit and LaunchTube, eliminating the need for traditional wallet setup and seed phrases.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through building full-stack dApps on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering frontend integration with Freighter wallet, TypeScript bindings, and deploying a crowdfunding example dApp to production.

Stellar and Solana developers discuss state bloat solutions: Solana's compression and binary trie approach versus Stellar's rent-based system with sharded Merkle trees. Both aim to balance low fees with preventing spam while maintaining data availability.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through Rust smart contract development on Soroban, covering basics like data types and storage, then advances to a staking contract example with cross-contract calls and testing.

Paltalabs team demonstrates building a voting dApp frontend connected to Soroban smart contracts, covering wallet integration, contract invocation, and transaction signing with Soroban React library.

Spanish-language peer programming session building a voting smart contract on Soroban, Stellar's smart contract platform. Developers walk through contract development, testing in Rust, and deployment to testnet using Docker, CLI tools, and JavaScript SDK.

Stellar Startup Camp demo day featuring multiple projects: a carbon credit tokenization platform for environmental restoration, ClipStack for creator financing via ad revenue sharing, Horizon for accessible credit access with DeFi benefits, and EcoTrade for carbon credit trading on Stellar.

Fifo from Cheesecake Labs demonstrates the Stellar Asset Sandbox, showing how to issue a stablecoin, create yield-bearing assets with smart contracts, manage hedge fund vaults, and authorize accounts through KYC workflows.

Phoenix DeFi Hub, built on Soroban, launched its decentralized exchange with three liquidity pools and generated 60% of Soroban transactions on day one. The team discussed upcoming features including an NFT marketplace, bridges to other ecosystems, and mobile support via WalletConnect.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2024 review covering smart contracts launch on mainnet, $533M in real world assets, 8M network accounts, and three strategic North Stars for ecosystem growth and financial inclusion.

Enrique from Crate Technologies discusses xBull Wallet, an open-source wallet for advanced Stellar users with hardware wallet support, and Soroban Domains, a protocol enabling human-readable usernames to replace public keys on Stellar.

Educational video introducing blockchain technology fundamentals, covering distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms like Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, smart contracts, and use cases beyond cryptocurrency including remittances, supply chain, and voting systems.