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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.

Hack Meridian (Oct 25-26, Lisbon) is Stellar's two-day hackathon with mentorship, office hours, and prizes. Two tracks: Genesis for new builders with ideas, Scale for lifting existing projects. 20+ European regional events running now to prepare.

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.

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.

Turkish blockchain educator Aybars discusses his career path from founding blockchain education initiatives to becoming a Stellar ambassador and AI identity builder. He shares insights on ecosystem support mechanisms and his vision for scaling AI agents in e-commerce on Stellar mainnet.

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.

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 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.

Educational guide for new builders joining the Stellar ecosystem. Explains the three pillars of Stellar (SDF, independent validators/developers, and global community), then focuses on the Stellar Community Fund—how it works as a grants program, evaluation criteria, and the step-by-step process for submitting projects and connecting with other builders.

Sabrina is an Indonesian developer and college student building Olio, a private USDC payment app for freelancers and creators. She discovered Stellar through the Indonesia Bootcamp and Rise In's support. Olio won first place in the payment track at the APEX Stellar hackathon, and the team is now shipping to real users.

Vietnamese team SEI Lab discusses Family Haven, a non-custodial wallet for families built on Soroban. The product addresses $7 billion in elderly asset losses through guardian protection and recovery features, deployed on testnet. Team won third prize at the APAC Hackathon.

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.

Emin Kargöz (Kaptan), a developer from Turkey, traces his path into blockchain from initial curiosity about the technology to becoming an active Stellar ecosystem builder. Hackathons proved the turning point, offering deadline pressure and community that tutorials couldn't match. His project Subrosa, a privacy and coordination infrastructure on Stellar and Soroban, won the Build on Stellar hackathon in Istanbul. Now as a developer advocate, he mentors others.

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.

Three developers from Kolkata transition from hackathon wins to shipping production. Sachindra, Shomadeep, and Orko discuss how mentorship, team collaboration, and obsessive focus on security move projects beyond demos to mainnet. Their lesson: solo builders often stall; teams that emphasize production-readiness from day one ship live products.

Philippine developers Carl (Velo), Mark (Treasure), and Armie share their Web3 onboarding journeys and APAC Hackathon experience in a Rise In Builder Spotlight. They discuss how community support, mentorship, and hands-on hackathons helped them shift from blockchain skepticism to building live projects on Stellar.

The APAC Stellar Hackathon Grand Finale brought 30 finalists from Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam to pitch projects across three tracks—local finance, DeFi, and payments—competing for $60,000 in prizes.

Stellar's Q2 milestone: $3 billion in real-world assets, marking institutional adoption from both the financial infrastructure layer (DTCC selecting Stellar for tokenization) and the access-constrained end (MoneyGram launching MGUSD for 60 million customers). Developer ecosystem reached 2,968 active monthly builders, now the second-largest by developer count.

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.