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Milan, 20, is building orbitkit.fun, a CLI tool that lets developers scaffold entire Stellar apps with one command. Winner of Best AI Dev Tool at Stellar Build residency, the tool addresses a core friction point: new builders arriving at Stellar face doc-heavy onboarding. Currently at 7,200 users, Milan is also running a web agency doing $12k MRR while studying engineering and working full-time.

Three builders discuss how Stellar Light, Stellar Passport, and Lumen Loop work together to solve the ecosystem's core visibility problem: new developers struggle to find projects and prove their contributions. The three tools form a complementary stack addressing onboarding, participation tracking, and signal aggregation.

Piggy Wallet brings family finance to Stellar to solve inflation in high-growth markets. Parents set up USDC savings accounts where kids complete chores to earn money. Founders Sofia Vasquez (CEO) and Matias (CPO) discuss gamifying financial literacy, why family finance is more than fintech, and how B2B2C partnerships with schools could drive mainstream adoption.

Two Indian developers, Surya and Saindipal, discovered Web3 through Ryzen's Kolkata hackathon community and won an Aptos competition with ZeroMove, an IDE for smart contract deployment that scaled to 3,000+ monthly users. They're now building on Stellar.

Introduction to Stellar Journey to Mastery 2.0, a 7-level learning program for building on Stellar. Video covers dashboard access, program structure, idea submission requirements, and how to navigate the progression from beginner to master builder track.

GrantFox community call walks through the redesigned open-source contribution platform on Stellar. Founders showcase new UI updates, a dual-sided rating system for contributors and maintainers, and a flagging mechanism with strikes to maintain code quality.

SoroPG Academy tutorial on integrating agentic AI into contract development. Learn how to connect the Soroban IDE to external coding agents (Codex, Claude Code) via Model Context Protocol, enabling safer, more powerful AI-assisted workflows for smart contract work.

SoroPG Academy Lesson 1 walks developers through the complete Soroban smart contract workflow, from writing Rust code to deploying on testnet. The browser-based tutorial requires no local setup or testnet funds, making it an ideal entry point for learning Soroban development.

Stellar Development Foundation and Blockchain Acceleration Foundation showcase Impacta Bootcamp, Código Alebrije hackathon, and acceleration program results in LATAM, featuring 16 projects building on Stellar with mentorship and grants.

Khan from SDF presents an AI resources guide for the Hack Plus Alep Rej hackathon in Mexico City, covering free AI setup, dev tools, composable protocol integration, and starter prompts to accelerate Stellar development.

Stellar Journey to Mastery is a developer program offering monthly builder challenges and mentorship to help experienced developers turn ideas into real projects on Stellar, with hands-on support for technical decisions and project advancement.

Khan from the Stellar Development Foundation introduces Stellar Journey to Mastery, a monthly builder challenge program designed to help developers move beyond tutorials and start building real Web3 projects with community support and feedback.

A Stellar ecosystem developer discusses ideation strategies for new projects, emphasizing privacy solutions as underrated opportunities. They highlight the updated documentation, new AI building resources, and the ecosystem resources repository as essential starting points for developers.

Video walkthrough on building zero-knowledge proofs using Circom circuits integrated with Stellar Soroban smart contracts. Covers circuit design with constraints, proof generation via snarkjs, conversion to Soroban-compatible hex format, and verification on testnet with working code examples.

Stellar's consensus protocol eliminates MEV (maximal extractable value) by design, unlike Ethereum and Solana where validators extract millions daily from user transactions. Stellar uses trusted validators accountable to the community rather than proof-of-stake incentives, creating fair markets where users aren't front-run.

Joaquín Farfán from Blessed UX demonstrates building smart contracts on Stellar's Soroban using OpenZeppelin libraries, showing how developers can create secure contracts without deep software engineering expertise.

Telus Cooperative and Estelar Chile hosted an entrepreneurship fair in Temuco, Chile, promoting innovation and technology for local entrepreneurs building their dreams.

A tutorial demonstrates creating and minting the first NFT collection on the Lightning marketplace within the Stellar blockchain ecosystem. Using Factor wallet and XLM on mainnet, the process covers uploading an image generated with Nano Banana, setting collection details like name, asset code, description, supply, and domain, then listing it for sale at 10 XLM. The video concludes with managing orders, searching the collection, and canceling listings.

Step-by-step tutorial on setting up Freighter wallet, activating it with XLM, and exploring Stellar dApps like ZoroSwap for token swaps and asset management.

Blessed UX and Telus Cooperative are launching a five-workshop Web3 builder program in Chile, teaching participants to create wallets, smart contracts, and deploy apps on Stellar.

Educational overview of Stellar's mission to create accessible global finance, explaining the Stellar Consensus Protocol, anchors as fiat bridges, and introducing Soroban smart contracts with a practical crowdfunding example.

Joaquin leads a Spanish-language workshop on how to submit ideas to Stellar's Ideatón competition, emphasizing problem-driven ideation, viability on Stellar, and scalability over technical complexity.

A panel discussion at a Web3 conference features experts from Massari, Allium, and Dune analyzing on-chain metrics beyond vanity stats like TVL and active wallets. They emphasize use cases, repeatability, revenue, and contextual insights, with specific praise for Stellar's low TVL but high activity, composable RWAs with Centrifuge, and stablecoin volumes. The conversation critiques misleading metrics and explores AI's role in data analysis.

A panel at Stellar House Miami discusses the power of storytelling in Web3 marketing, featuring marketers from Privy and Stellar. Panelists share their journeys into crypto marketing and emphasize aligning narratives with strong products, targeting the right audiences, and building long-term trust. They highlight education on stablecoins, wallets, and purposeful blockchains like Stellar for financial services.