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Palta Labs demonstrated the Trustless Portfolio Manager, a smart contract that automatically rebalances crypto portfolios using Reflector Oracles and DeFindex vaults. The system enables users to maintain balanced positions like 50% XLM and 50% XRP without manual intervention or centralized management.

Raph and Jerome discuss their trip to Prague for Stellar's marketing event and the Emergence conference, covering event experiences, Blend V2 updates with flash loans and wallet integrations, the Balance cross-chain protocol launch, and ecosystem opportunities including the Reflector dev competition.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering boilerplate setup, testing with ledger snapshots, and building a predictive market contract using oracle data.

Script3 launched Blend Capital, a lending protocol primitive on Stellar's Soroban that enables customizable lending pools with algorithmic interest rates and mandatory insurance. The protocol has 5.5M TVL and is attracting integrations from wallets and real-world asset projects.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the sequel to Lightmeat.io, a casual trading card game on Stellar that now leverages Soroban smart contracts for asset management, multiple currencies, and seamless onboarding for non-crypto users via passkeys and social logins.

Tomas from Cyclo Labs discusses Mercury, a Soroban-focused data indexing service, and Cyclones flash loan protocol at Stellar Meridian 2024. He explains how Mercury indexes on-chain data for DeFi applications and addresses liquidity challenges on Soroban while highlighting Stellar's technical advantages.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the smart contract-powered sequel to Lightmeat.io. The casual trading card game leverages Soroban for asset management, introduces new mechanics like overclock and crafting currencies, and launches a beta tournament next month with monthly seasons and full battle replays.

Tutorial on authentication in Soroban smart contracts, covering require_auth and require_auth_for_args functions for verifying transaction authorization, plus testing methods using mock_auth and mock_all_auth utilities.

Developer walkthrough of Stellar smart wallet implementation using Soroban, covering passkey signers, policy-based access control, and stateful contract patterns for secure multi-sig account management.

Developer demonstrates launching fireworks using Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, with a Node.js controller listening for blockchain events and triggering an Arduino-controlled arc igniter. Showcases Web3's potential to replace cloud services for IoT applications.

Stellar founder reflects on the network's 10-year journey, discussing early innovations like its consensus mechanism and distributed exchange, the importance of communication and continuous innovation, and how Soroban smart contracts now enable ecosystem builders to drive growth beyond the SDF.

Stellar Foundation leaders discuss the future of the DEX, validator decentralization, Soroban adoption, and ecosystem security at Meridian 2024. Key topics include replacing the classic order book with AMMs and liquidity aggregators, growing tier-one validator participation, and expanding DeFi protocols on Soroban.

DeFi panel discussion on Stellar's Soroban featuring Axelar, Aquarius, and a yield-bearing stablecoin protocol. Speakers discuss strategies for attracting and retaining liquidity on Soroban through bridges, AMMs, lending protocols, and real-world asset tokenization.

Marcus from Script3 presented Blend Capital's five-month performance on Soroban, highlighting 237 unique wallets, $8.58M total deposits, and innovative auction-based liquidations. The team outlined future priorities: expanding wallet integrations, launching professionally risk-managed pools, and building an OTC lending framework for real-world use cases like remittance financing.

Stellar Development Foundation core team lead discusses Soroban's mainnet activation, protocol upgrades including SecP256R1 for passkeys and BLS12381 for zero-knowledge contracts, and upcoming improvements like parallel execution and state archival to scale responsibly while maintaining decentralization.

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.

Lauren Thorbjørnsen, VP and Chief of Staff at the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar Meridian 2024 in London, highlighting the conference's 10-year anniversary theme of transformation, 800 expected attendees from 65 countries, and key sessions on financial inclusion, Soroban smart contracts, and emerging markets.

Speaker presents a boilerplate starter pack for the Easy A Stellar Hackathon (Oct 12, London), featuring a Soroban smart contract with key-value storage and a React dapp using the Stellar SDK. Also covers passkeys for passwordless authentication and the Anchor protocol for TradFi integration.

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.

James Puccini demonstrates how to build passwordless smart wallets on Stellar using WebAuthn passkeys and Soroban contracts, enabling seamless biometric authentication without traditional wallet setup.

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.