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Stella Developers Meeting covers USDT0, Tether's USDT delivered to Stellar via LayerZero's OFT standard. Live on mainnet since September with $2.58M in bridged assets, 23,717 accounts, and 7 DVN operators. Technical walkthrough of cross-chain architecture and developer capabilities for sending, receiving, and tracking stablecoins across 23 networks.

The Stellar Developers Meeting introduces Raven, an AI assistant for builders navigating the Stellar ecosystem. Kaan from SDF and Themes from Guava Global discuss how Raven helps with documentation, context, and checking what's already been built. The meeting covers Hack Meridian details: a two-track hackathon (Oct 25-26 in Lisbon) with workshops and mentorship, plus 20+ activation events across European cities.

Stellar developer meeting featuring Nethermind on the Stellar Private Payment System: live Q&A with cryptographer Antonio Arriba covering privacy architecture, zero-knowledge proof design, compliance rules via association sets, and how SPP compares to other privacy solutions.

Nethermind on building private, compliant payments for Stellar. The Stellar Private Payment System (SPP) allows users to transact privately while pool operators maintain configurable compliance controls for regulators. Built on Soroban with ZK verifiers for Noir and RISK-Zero proof systems.

The Stellar Journey to Mastery program wrapped its initial 6-month run with a demo day showcasing 10+ builders who shipped live products to mainnet. The belt-based progression system, which scaled from 5,000 applicants to 4,849 active participants across 32 countries, proved extended support produces shipped goods—not abandoned hackathon projects.

Stellar Community Fund's September Mainnet Demo Day featured SCF-funded projects shipping live products. ZIG3 launched a passkey-based smart wallet with embedded DeFi and play-to-earn games. Vottun and Wirex released a payment SDK reducing development from weeks to minutes. KindFi showcased its blockchain-based crowdfunding platform for LATAM causes.

Kaan shares his journey from law degree to Web3 developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation. After years in legal practice, he discovered blockchain's pace was a better fit. Now at SDF following Risein bootcamp, he encourages others to make the transition.

Chad Oh walks through Stellar Registry, the smart contract module discovery system for Stellar. Learn how to publish WASMs with names and versions, deploy contracts from the UI, use the CLI for automation, and navigate governance for registry promotion. A complete developer guide to using Stellar's on-chain module distribution.

Fundable Live: weekly Spaces on web3 earnings. Covers Fundable Finance's payment/payroll/offramping platform, token opportunities on Robinhood chain, and Drip, a Stellar-based open-source contributor rewards program.

LOFI presents a fully-built Blend v3 candidate addressing failures in the Comet LP pool. In response to a critical exploit that drained $51M in BLEND tokens, the proposal introduces tiered backstops, XLM as a designated swap token to reduce USDC dependency, and comprehensive clawback support for real-world assets. The candidate aims to keep Blend's immutable core and permissionless design while extending features needed for institutional adoption.

Bento is a security layer for AI agents accessing DeFi yield on Stellar. Co-founder Trey discusses how the platform helps agents safely navigate Stellar's fragmented DeFi protocols and real-world asset opportunities, leveraging behavior-based security to prevent unauthorized transactions. A serial hackathon winner, Bento previously shipped on Solana but sees Stellar's regulated stablecoin infrastructure as the ideal foundation for agent-powered payments.

Stellar Developers Meeting focuses on confidential token transfers. SDF's Frontier Labs team (Khan, Brie Wild) demonstrates Who Ate Gerald, a social deduction game built to teach privacy mechanics on testnet. OpenZeppelin built the circuits and Noir proofs; Nethermind built the ultra-honk ZK verifier.

Stellar Private Payments developer preview is live on testnet via Nethermind. The zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses using Groth16 proofs. Web and Rust SDKs, a CLI tool, and demo app are available for developers.

Stellar Private Payments is available on testnet as a developer preview. Built by Nethermind, it's a zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol that breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses while maintaining compliance readiness. Web and Rust SDKs are live.

Developers Meeting: Moonlight Protocol (privacy layer by AHA) launches on Stellar mainnet. Chad and Gorka explain UTXO model for privacy, compliance-ready provider bundling, and regulatory framework. Covers architecture and provider councils for regulated finance use cases.

Offer Hub's SCF #44 demo shows a non-custodial marketplace implementation using Stellar Wallets Kit. The walkthrough covers wallet registration, multi-wallet account management, real-time on-chain balance reading via Horizon, and passwordless wallet-based login supporting Freighter, Lobster, and xBull.

Stellar Developers Meeting 08/20 covers wallet infrastructure integration for dApp developers. Host Kahn (SDF Developer Advocate) walks through six different approaches: Stellar Wallet Kit, Blux (email/social), Privy, Para, Passkey Kit, and Smart Account Kit. Learn configuration gotchas, when each auth pattern fits your app's UX, and upcoming Protocol 28 testnet upgrade.

Stellar Builder Summit Sao Paulo: 12 winners announced across 6 tracks including confidential tokens, enterprise RWA escrow, regional on-ramp kits, emerging market yield, agentic payment discovery, and CLI tooling. 190 developers built for 8 consecutive days, delivering products spanning privacy, institutional infrastructure, and local payments.

Stellar Developers Meeting: expert discussion of confidential tokens. Alex Votto (SDF Product Manager, Privacy) and Jay Gang (SDF Core Engineer) answer 25+ developer questions on privacy design, compliance readiness, and technical architecture of SEP-41 tokens.

Allium partners with SDF to launch Stellar Dashboard, an open-access analytics platform providing builders with real-time visibility into ecosystem trends. The dashboard surfaces network metrics, smart contract activity, stablecoin dynamics, and RWA adoption—enabling teams to validate markets, identify partnerships, and spot where builders are needed most.

Stellar Developers Meeting features a live CCTP demo enabling canonical USDC to move cross-chain from Stellar to Ethereum, Base, Arc, and Solana. SDF developers showcase a wrapper contract that combines USDC approval and burn into a single atomic transaction. The integration handles Stellar's 7-decimal precision, Circle's attestation flow, and enables permissionless destination minting.

Pebriansyah went from crypto educator in Indonesia to founder of ORBIT Protocol on Stellar. He won three hackathons learning that go-to-market strategy matters as much as code, and now mentors hundreds of builders via webcoding.id.

Hypertron, a programmable operating layer for payments and operations, was introduced at the Stellar Developers Meeting. Built for institutional adoption, the platform provides privacy-first B2B payment infrastructure with compliance and auditability controls. The meeting also covered ecosystem updates including Stellar Quest revival and expanded community AI skills for developers.

Fundable and Tansu showcase how Drips Wave contributors build essential infrastructure for Stellar DAOs and payment operations. Fundable enables streaming payments and off-ramping to fiat for Web3 teams in emerging markets; Tansu brings decentralized governance and on-chain voting to open-source projects. Together, the two projects illustrate how ecosystem tools serve both immediate technical needs and longer-term governance maturity.