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Stellar Community Fund's August Mainnet Demo Day featured SCF-funded projects demonstrating live implementations. Decent Wallet showcased the first hardware wallet supporting XLM5 yields via Soroswap and Centora Vault. AgTrail presented end-to-end food traceability for Nigerian farmers with instant NGNC payments on Stellar's payment backbone.

Franklin Templeton's Benji money market fund surged from under $600M to $2.5B on Stellar by tokenizing a regulated fund natively on-chain. The discussion covers how 50,000 transactions cost $1.13 instead of $75,000, yield accrual by the second, regulatory approval, and institutional adoption through exchange collateral.

Vietnamese developers Andre, Ken, and Luis built Nexus, a peer-to-peer lending platform on Stellar, during APAC Hackathon. Unlike pooled lending models, Nexus lets borrowers and lenders negotiate custom terms directly on-chain using smart contracts for collateral management and repayment.

Punia Stellar Foundation business development lead, discusses how DeFi is the foundation for modern payments infrastructure. The roadmap: secure major lending protocol partnerships launching Q3-Q4, scale vault programs with institutions and fintechs, and use DeFi to unlock yield-bearing financial services on top of payments rails. The thesis is that payments are just the beginning; the real moat is enabling money movement plus credit, fraud protection, and other value-added services.

Institutional finance is moving on-chain at scale. This broadcast unpacks the market data: stablecoins now settling $7 trillion monthly, tokenized assets crossed $30 billion, and yield products are attracting serious institutional capital. On Stellar specifically, real-world assets hit $3.2B and Bolts, a suite of institutional vaults, launched today via the Stellar DeFi hub.

DeFindex co-founders Francisco, Esteban, and Joaquin discuss their path from France to Stellar blockchain, building the first smart contract protocol (Sorsa), and their vision for AI agents handling money through blockchain infrastructure.

Quan Le, Manroy, and Tuan from Untangled describe how their platform brings institutional portfolio intelligence to Stellar's DeFi. They built Untangled Vault (the first institutional vault on Stellar), OctoLend (lending market), and OctoPos (multi-chain DeFi position API and risk monitoring tool). After the February Blend hack ($10M Oracle exploit), they built real-time risk monitoring APIs that watch lending pools for anomalies and alert curators. Institutional curators like GAMI Capital and State Capital use their vault to allocate across Stellar and EVM chains simultaneously.

Blend, Stellar's largest DeFi protocol, faces competing V3 proposals: Templar wants institutional RWAs and fixed-rate lending with permission pools; the alternative keeps Blend primitive, letting builders layer features on top. No governance DAO; the backstop LP market migration decides which version wins.

SDF's DeFi lead explains how Stellar's partnership with Centrifuge enables tokenized real-world assets to unlock yield in DeFi while giving emerging markets unbiased access to institutional lending and financial services.

Stellar's weekly developer meeting features JavaScript SDK v16 release, a real-world ZK hackathon ($10K prize pool, 11 days remaining), and the CV Labs + SDF EMEA accelerator ($150K grants). Guest project XCCY demonstrates its interest rate swaps integration on Soroban.

Nelson, Risein Stellar Philippines' country lead, discusses blockchain's competitive edge in emerging markets. The key message: sustainable builders succeed through entrepreneurial thinking and 3-5 year roadmaps, not grant-chasing. Real opportunity lies in DeFi, where transparent, algorithm-driven systems outperform traditional banking.

SCF Demo Day showcased six mainnet-live projects on May 2026, marking a milestone: 50 SCF-funded projects have launched on Stellar mainnet in 2026. Across three rounds, SCF has awarded $7.7M to approximately 75 projects.

Stellar Community Fund April Demo Day featured three mainnet projects: Volta, a programmable multi-signature wallet for Soroban; Splice, a fixed-rate institutional lending platform for tokenized RWAs; and Dog Protocol, a liquid real-world asset DEX. SCF has funded over 60 projects totaling $6.4M in 2026.

Stellar Developers Meeting covering Q1 2026 ecosystem metrics, MoneyGram partnership extension, Aquarius reaching $50M TVL, and 260 hackathon projects including AI agents, security tools, and mobile-first applications.

Stellar Developer Meeting covering Protocol 26 launch on testnet, agentic payments (X402 and MPP), and a demo of NoEther, a new perpetual DEX built on Stellar with support for isolated and cross-margin trading.

Stellar Developer Meeting covering Protocol 26 testnet launch, AI agents and agentic payments (X402/MPP), $2B in tokenized RWAs on network, and live demo of NoEther perpetual DEX platform built on Stellar.

Meru and DeFindex discuss how to generate yield on stablecoins through DeFi protocols. Meru integrates DeFindex infrastructure to offer users self-custodied returns ranging from 8-23%, with no intermediaries, no withdrawal limits, and instant interest compounding.

Industry leaders discuss how tokenized assets remain unproductive on-chain due to lack of distribution, composability, and integration. Key solutions include omni-chain strategies, interoperability standards, privacy protocols, and vault-based yield mechanisms to unlock capital utility.

Stellar Community Fund March Demo Day showcased five mainnet projects: DevAssign (automated code review and bounty payments), Reflektor (oracle price feeds), Versprop (tokenized real estate finance), Blocksmith (Soroban development framework), and Zenix (perpetual futures exchange). All projects received BUILD awards up to $150,000 and are live on mainnet.

Findx hosted Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet. Discussion covered formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and the recent price manipulation incident on Stellar's DEX.

Findx hosts Chapter 5 of Interoperable Podcast on Web3 security, featuring Everett Hildenbrandt from Runtime Verification and Mark from Hana Wallet discussing formal verification, wallet security, oracle vulnerabilities, and lessons from a recent DeFi incident on Stellar.

The Stellar monthly news show discusses Lindsay's departure from the Stellar Development Foundation, addresses a recent price feed manipulation incident on Blend with full reimbursements, and covers highlights like ETH Denver events, a successful ZK gaming hackathon, and the 2026 foundation strategy targeting 1 billion in network growth. Lightning round updates include SushiSwap V3 launch, new SDKs, partnerships, and upcoming events like the Mexico hackathon. The episode ends with community reflections and farewells.

Findex protocol powers crypto neobanks with savings accounts, demonstrated across Xportal, HANA Wallet, Zipcash, BeansApp, and others. Users deposit stablecoins through Findex vaults to earn APY, with wallet providers controlling UX while using Findex backend infrastructure.

Tutorial on integrating Define Dex API into wallets to offer automated DeFi yield strategies. Covers smart contract architecture, API endpoints, and implementation examples using React and TypeScript SDK.