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Anke from SDF presents a workshop on Stellar fundamentals, covering blockchain basics, how Stellar works, asset issuance, the decentralized exchange, and real-world applications like Uhuru Wallet and Leaf Global Fintech. The session includes live demonstrations using Stellar Laboratory and highlights a $3,000 hackathon prize pool for projects solving real-world problems.

Stellar protocol discussion on automated market makers (AMMs) focusing on asset authorization and revocation mechanisms. Two approaches debated: one mirroring existing offer revocation semantics, another requiring issuer opt-in for liquidity pool participation.

Stellar developers discussed two competing proposals, CAP 37 and CAP 38, for adding automated market makers (AMMs) to the protocol. Key topics included reserve requirements, DEX integration approaches, pool parameter updates, and governance for multiple pools per asset pair.

Lee McCulloch from SDF explains SEP-30, a Stellar Ecosystem Proposal that enables user-friendly account recovery without requiring users to manage secret keys. The protocol uses multi-signature accounts and independent recovery servers, demonstrated by Vibrant wallet in Argentina.

Stellar Development Foundation engineers and ecosystem validators discuss network decentralization, node operations, and tier one validator requirements at Meridian conference. Speakers cover quorum set configuration, incentive structures, and the path to becoming a tier one validator.

David Mazuris introduces STC, the Stellar Transaction Compiler, a command-line tool that makes it easier to create, examine, and debug raw Stellar transactions without writing code. The tool translates between XDR and TxRep formats, enabling developers to test transaction behavior directly on the network.

Jake Urban from SDF presents Polaris, an extendable Django application that simplifies building modular Stellar anchor services. Polaris implements common anchor functionality while allowing developers to customize and extend it for their specific needs, supporting SEP 6, 24, and 31 protocols.

Tomer Weller from SDF traces the six-year evolution of Stellar anchor interoperability standards, from 2014 gateways through SEP6, SEP24, and SEP31, explaining how anchors bridge traditional finance with Stellar and enable cross-border payments.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, discusses Solid, a decentralized protocol for data ownership and control. He draws parallels between early web principles and current blockchain/Stellar efforts, emphasizing the importance of open standards, user agency, and avoiding centralization.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF presented progress on Turing Signing Servers, a proposal for enabling decentralized transaction creation on Stellar through programmable smart contract-like functionality without modifying the core protocol.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an open protocol meeting to discuss CAP 21, a draft proposal for generalized transaction preconditions. The CAP aims to enable payment channels, relative time locks, and time-delayed key recovery by extending account entries and replacing the time bounds field with more flexible preconditions.

Stellar protocol developers discussed CAP 35, which enables asset issuers to claw back tokens for regulatory compliance. The proposal moved from draft to final comment period after minor revisions including deprecating AllowTrust and expanding asset parameters for future delegation flexibility.

Devnil from SDF's Voyager team presents the first version of Stellar's data analytics system, built on BigQuery and Kubernetes to enable fast historical queries and network insights. The system powers internal business analytics and will soon support real-time data, improved observability, and public visualizations.

Stellar Development Foundation launches SCF 2.0, splitting the Stellar Community Fund into two distinct funds: a 500k Lumen lab fund for experimental projects (4x yearly) and a 5M Lumen seed fund for viable businesses (2x yearly). The redesign introduces panel judges for initial filtering and flaggable quadratic voting to better allocate funds based on community sentiment.

Django Polaris is an extendable Django application that enables developers to build Stellar anchor servers implementing SEP standards. The talk demonstrates installing, configuring, and deploying a complete SEP24 anchor with deposit and withdrawal flows using integrations for custom banking rails and KYC.

Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF leads a technical workshop on implementing SEP24 (interactive deposit and withdrawals) into a Stellar wallet, demonstrating how anchors and wallets interact to enable on and off ramps for fiat currencies onto the Stellar network.

Tyler Vanderhoeven presents SEP X, a proposal for Turing complete smart contracts on Stellar via decentralized Turing signing servers. These servers enable programmable transaction creation while maintaining Stellar's safety guarantees, offering functional feature parity with Ethereum without requiring assets to be first-class citizens.

Stellar Development Foundation held an open protocol discussion covering CAP 23 (claimable balances for two-part payments) and CAP 33 (sponsored reserves). Teams debated predicate tree recursion depth limits, SEP 30 compatibility issues, and downstream SDK/Horizon implementation readiness for Protocol 14.

Lee McCulloch from the Stellar Development Foundation presents SEP30, a key management standard designed to make account recovery user-friendly by using device keys and recovery signers instead of backing up master keys, enabling wallets like Vibrant to offer phone/email-based recovery without custodial risk.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted the first open protocol discussion, a bi-weekly meeting to review Core Advancement Proposals (CAPs) for protocol improvements. The meeting covered CAP 23 (claimable balances), CAP 33 (sponsored reserves), protocol 13 upgrade delay, and improvements to the CAP process.

Marta from the Stellar core team explains the Stellar Consensus Protocol, covering quorums, federated voting, the nomination protocol, and the ballot protocol. The talk uses simplified explanations and demos to help developers understand how SCP narrows down possible transaction sets until the network reaches agreement on a single value.

Colton from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses best practices for building usable Stellar applications, covering Stellar Ecosystem Proposals (SEPs), interface simplification, and user education strategies.

Tyler Vanderhoeven explains path payments, a core Stellar feature that moves value through the decentralized exchange by routing assets across multiple order books. Path payments enable market orders, cross-asset payments, and liquidity provision without manual exchange interaction.

Stellar Development Foundation leadership discusses protocol improvements, WorldWire launch, network growth challenges, and the organization's new direction under executive director Danelle Dixon. Key protocol 11 updates include dynamic fee handling and per-operation limits to improve network efficiency.