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SDF's Q1 2021 quarterly call covered major milestones including Stellar USDC launch, three enterprise fund investments totaling $6.5M, Horizon 2.0 release, and significant network growth with 160% increase in payments and 2,798% growth in relevant asset transactions.

Lisa from the Stellar Development Foundation delivers a comprehensive Stellar 101 presentation for business leaders, covering the technology (account-based ledger, consensus protocol, asset issuance, decentralized exchange) and ecosystem (anchors, liquidity, SEPs, interoperability standards).

Danelle Dixon, SDF CEO, showcased how Stellar-built companies are solving real-world financial inclusion problems across Africa, Latin America, and the US-Mexico border through remittances, cross-border payments, and access to global markets.

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.

Three Stellar anchors demonstrated live implementations of SEP protocols for cross-border payments and fiat on/off-ramps. Settle showed SEP-24 deposit/withdrawal flows for Argentine peso and Brazilian real, Kauri demonstrated SEP-6 integration across web and WhatsApp wallets for Nigerian naira, and Tempo presented SEP-31 merchant payment flows for euro-backed stablecoins.

Jed McCaleb and Danell Dixon discuss Stellar's growth, leadership transition, and 2020 accomplishments. The SDF expanded from 12 to 80 employees, launched Vibrant in Argentina, and focused on real-world use cases in emerging markets while navigating COVID-19 and policy engagement.

Stellar Development Foundation concludes 2020 virtual Meridian conference, highlighting 2 billion network operations, 25 live anchors, and 2021 priorities including DEX liquidity improvements, a private sidechain, and expanded anchor partnerships to drive financial inclusion.

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 Development Foundation held its Q4 2020 quarterly call reviewing major achievements including 20 anchor services, protocol 15 upgrades, USDC integration coming Q1, and 1,819% growth in relevant asset transaction volume to $48.7M.

Stellar Development Foundation announced USDC is now an official chain for the stablecoin, partnering with Circle. SDF also released protocol upgrades including claimable balances and sponsored reserves, relaunched the Stellar Community Fund 2.0, and expanded anchor networks in Africa and Latin America.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts roundtable on custodial vs non-custodial wallet design, featuring builders from Saldo MX, SatoshiPay, and D-Stock discussing key management approaches, regulatory considerations, and ecosystem needs like CAP27 multiplexed accounts and CEP30 recovery signers.

Stellar Development Foundation board members discuss network effects as a growth model, exploring how blockchain and open networks can achieve critical mass for adoption, particularly in emerging markets and financial inclusion.

Morley Zai from Vibrant explains how the app handles deposits and withdrawals using Stellar anchors and the SEP-24 protocol. The soft-launched Argentina-focused app lets users convert local currency to USD tokens on Stellar through a streamlined mobile interface.

Stellar Development Foundation Q2 2020 quarterly call covering Samsung blockchain key store integration, Abra partnership announcement, Protocol 13 upgrade with Fee Bumps and asset authorization features, anchor expansion strategy, and policy engagement initiatives.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts webinar on anchor basics, covering what anchors are, their role in connecting traditional banking to Stellar, business opportunities, and the streamlined process for becoming an anchor with available developer tools.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a virtual roundtable to finalize the direct send SEP proposal, discussing multilateral KYC data sharing between anchors and enabling non-custodial wallets to participate in fiat-to-fiat cross-border payments.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a virtual roundtable on a new SEP (Stellar Ecosystem Proposal) for send-receive transactions, discussing technical standards for anchor-to-anchor cross-border payments, KYC requirements, and protocol design decisions with ecosystem participants from Tempo, SatoshiPay, and Kauri.

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.

Calvary Systems launched NGNT, a fiat-backed Nigerian Naira token on Stellar, enabling instant cross-border payments to Nigeria. The token integrates with Nigeria's banking infrastructure (NIBS) and is already used by payment operators like Tempo and SatoshiPay.

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.