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Stellar Development Foundation discusses CAP 21, a core advancement proposal that enables payment channels on Stellar. The team addresses outstanding technical questions about account extensions, transaction validation, and preconditions to move toward acceptance.

Stellar Open Protocol meeting discussing CAP 21 and CAP 40, which lay groundwork for payment channels. CAP 21 generalizes transaction preconditions to support relative time locks and other conditions; CAP 40 enables participants to exchange signatures for multiple transactions in one step.

SDF's Q2 2021 quarterly call covering $18M in enterprise fund investments, protocol upgrades 16 and 17, CAP 38 AMM proposal, and network growth metrics showing 159% increase in payments and 36,900% growth in relevant asset transactions.

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discusses financial inclusion, digital payments, and blockchain technology's role in addressing global inequities. She emphasizes the need for inclusive financial architecture, mobile money adoption, and inter-African payment systems to enable sustainable growth.

Stellar Development Foundation representative explains how Stellar's decentralized network enables interoperable digital assets and payments across traditional financial infrastructure, positioning it as a common infrastructure alternative to siloed correspondent banking systems.

Dante Disparte from Circle discusses stablecoins and cross-border payments, highlighting how USDC has grown to $20 billion in circulation and addresses the 50-year-old financial infrastructure gap through blockchain-based solutions.

Simon Chantry from BIT discusses central bank digital currency (CBDC) deployment, the journey from research to live operations, and BIT's Digital Currency Management System that enables central banks and financial institutions to operationalize CBDCs and stablecoins across payment networks.

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 Development Foundation hosted a panel at UC Berkeley featuring four live projects building on Stellar: CoinQuest (crypto payment APIs), Realty Bits (real estate tokenization), Uhuru (WhatsApp-based cross-border payments), and Vibrant (USDC savings app for Argentina). Panelists discussed asset issuance, interoperability via Stellar Ecosystem Proposals, and how developers can build on Stellar without permission.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.