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Soroswap, an AMM and DEX aggregator built on Soroban, launched on Mainnet. The team discussed how Soroswap enables swaps for custom Soroban tokens unavailable on Stellar Classic, with transaction costs 1000x lower than Ethereum and plans to aggregate liquidity across multiple protocols.

Francesco from Unchain AI discusses web3 security tools built for Stellar and Soroban, including wallet screening APIs, smart contract monitoring (Web3 SOC), and an open-source smart contract catalog with GPT-4 integration for vulnerability detection.

Tutorial demonstrating SourceApp's asset swapping functionality on Soroban, covering how to trade Soroban-native tokens, wrap Stellar Classic assets, create liquidity pools, and execute trustless swaps without permission.

Tori Samples, Senior Product Manager at SDF, discusses the Stellar Disbursement Platform, an open-source bulk payments tool enabling organizations to send money to multiple individuals simultaneously on Stellar. The platform supports humanitarian aid, payroll, government programs, and other use cases while bringing financial inclusion to underbanked populations.

BP Ventures presents CEP30, Stellar's 2020 standard for wallet recovery without seed phrases. The demo shows how users can recover accounts via email, SMS, or social authentication while keeping the master key disabled for security.

BPV releases Stellar Anchor in a Box v2.03 with new features including API key generation, webhook support, enhanced filtering, OAuth 2 authentication, ISO 20022 compliance, multisig capabilities, and Google Analytics integration for anchor operators.

Muli Sagif, CEO of Certora, discusses formal verification for smart contracts and announces Soroban support for their verification platform at Meridian in Madrid. Certora is expanding beyond EVM to WebAssembly and Rust, bringing formal verification tooling to the Stellar ecosystem.

Konstantin Sparks, founder of Blockdaemon, discusses how institutional infrastructure providers are essential for blockchain adoption. He explains Blockdaemon's three-pillar strategy: node access, staking services, and MPC wallet solutions, positioning the company as the backbone enabling developers and institutions to build on Stellar and other networks.

BPV presents Anchor in a Box, a solution for launching Stellar anchors that enable fiat-to-crypto conversions. The presentation covers SEP standards (6, 10, 24, 31), wallet integration, KYC processes, fee management, and operational workflows for money transfer operators and exchanges.

The Stellar Development Foundation introduced the Anchor Platform, a middleware service that simplifies on and off-ramping for businesses. Flutterwave and BankSAR demonstrated production integrations enabling cross-border payments and fiat conversions across Africa and globally.

Julian Martinez and Chad from AHA Labs demonstrate how to build DeFi applications on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts, covering liquidity pools, swaps, and TypeScript bindings for frontend integration.

Tyler Vanderhoeven, developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation, demonstrates how to bridge Stellar assets into Soroban smart contracts using Stellar asset contracts, enabling seamless interoperability between the two layers.

Deep technical overview of Soroban's architecture, covering the host-guest boundary design, value types, host functions, contract storage, and resource metering that enable secure, performant smart contract execution on Stellar.

Ed from Axelar demonstrates secure cross-chain communication tools, including deposit addresses, interchain tokens, and contract messaging. Axelar supports 49 chains and enables decentralized governance across multiple blockchains through its permissionless validator network.

Stellar ecosystem builders showcased 15+ projects at Meridian conference, including Comet AMM, EZA developer platform, Wavy P2P exchange, SubQuery indexer, Phoenix DEX, and infrastructure tools. Focus on DeFi primitives, real-world assets, and developer onboarding on Soroban.

Panel discussion on AMMs and swap functionality in Soroban ecosystem featuring builders from Phoenix, Soroswap, and Comment. Panelists discuss liquidity incentivization strategies, developer challenges, security considerations, impermanent loss mitigation, and the role of oracles and indexers in DeFi infrastructure.

Marcelo from Cheesecake Labs introduced Stellar Sandbox v2, an enhanced platform for asset tokenization that enables non-technical users to issue, manage, and distribute assets on Stellar without development expertise. The platform includes custodial wallets, role-based access control, treasury management, and upcoming Soroban smart contract integration, with the codebase being released as open source.

Alex Cordero from the Stellar Development Foundation presented the Wallet SDK, a new developer tool that simplifies wallet integration with anchors by reducing implementation complexity from 291 lines of code to just 10 lines, while maintaining interoperability standards.

Chad Ostrovsky from AhaLabs discusses smart contract developer tooling for Soroban, comparing Rust-based development approaches across Near, Soroban, and Cosmwasm. He explains Rain, an ABI system and interactive documentation tool, and explores the philosophy behind Soroban's no-std constraint and performance optimization.

Cubist co-founders Fraser Brown and Riyadh Wabi discuss their cross-chain dApp development toolkit, the state of zero-knowledge proofs, and why Soroban's testing infrastructure sets a new standard for blockchain developer experience.

Sergei Gurbanov, CEO of Axelar, discusses how the decentralized interoperability protocol connects multiple blockchains through a plug-and-play gateway model. Axelar is integrating with Stellar's Soroban smart contract platform and launching a virtual machine to scale cross-chain development.

Soroban Developer Workshop livestream featuring Paul from SDF and Morgan from useSoroban.app demonstrating how to write your first smart contract on Soroban, including Hello World examples and stateful contract development with storage operations.

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.

SDF launched the Stellar Asset Sandbox, a no-code toolkit built with Cheesecake Labs for exploring tokenization on Stellar testnet. The sandbox enables users to issue custom assets, manage supply, and control asset permissions through features like account freezing and clawback.