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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.

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.

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.

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.

Workshop session on using Mercury indexer to query Stellar blockchain data without direct RPC calls. Covers setting up subscriptions, querying ledger entries, parsing XDR data, and practical examples with voting contracts.

Julian Martinez from SDF walks through Rust smart contract development on Soroban, covering basics like data types and storage, then advances to a staking contract example with cross-contract calls and testing.

Paltalabs team demonstrates building a voting dApp frontend connected to Soroban smart contracts, covering wallet integration, contract invocation, and transaction signing with Soroban React library.

Spanish-language peer programming session building a voting smart contract on Soroban, Stellar's smart contract platform. Developers walk through contract development, testing in Rust, and deployment to testnet using Docker, CLI tools, and JavaScript SDK.

Stellar Startup Camp demo day featuring multiple projects: a carbon credit tokenization platform for environmental restoration, ClipStack for creator financing via ad revenue sharing, Horizon for accessible credit access with DeFi benefits, and EcoTrade for carbon credit trading on Stellar.

Fifo from Cheesecake Labs demonstrates the Stellar Asset Sandbox, showing how to issue a stablecoin, create yield-bearing assets with smart contracts, manage hedge fund vaults, and authorize accounts through KYC workflows.

Aquarius introduces the Soroban Yield Bridge, enabling Stellar users to earn yields from Ethereum-based assets like stETH and Aave tokens directly on Stellar. The non-custodial bridge launches with five assets and uses Reflector oracles for real-time synchronization.

Phoenix DeFi Hub, built on Soroban, launched its decentralized exchange with three liquidity pools and generated 60% of Soroban transactions on day one. The team discussed upcoming features including an NFT marketplace, bridges to other ecosystems, and mobile support via WalletConnect.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2024 review covering smart contracts launch on mainnet, $533M in real world assets, 8M network accounts, and three strategic North Stars for ecosystem growth and financial inclusion.

Fred demos Litemint's new NFT marketplace release featuring zero-friction creator onboarding, instant listing on SDEX, and advanced smart contract features like auctions and royalties, all designed to onboard non-crypto natives to Stellar.

Enrique from Crate Technologies discusses xBull Wallet, an open-source wallet for advanced Stellar users with hardware wallet support, and Soroban Domains, a protocol enabling human-readable usernames to replace public keys on Stellar.