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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.

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.

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.

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.

Tomaso de Ponti, a 19-year-old Stellar consultant and co-founder of X-Cyclo Labs, discusses Soroban development roadmap including elliptic curves for zero-knowledge proofs, passkeys for smart wallets, and Mercury indexer infrastructure.

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.

CoinFabric, a blockchain security and auditing firm, discusses smart contract vulnerabilities, the importance of manual security audits over automated tools, and their grant-funded work with Stellar to develop static analysis tools for Soroban 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.

Comprehensive analysis of Stellar Lumens (XLM) covering token fundamentals, consensus mechanism, staking options via Soroban protocols, key use cases, competitive landscape, wallet options, and price scenarios. Discusses XLM's role in cross-border payments, asset issuance, and DeFi with current TVL of 8 million dollars.

SCF 29 pitch session featuring 30+ Stellar ecosystem projects presenting innovations across payments, DeFi, developer tools, gaming, education, and financial inclusion. Projects range from stablecoin infrastructure to smart contract platforms to real-world asset tokenization.