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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.

Ken Sang (Crossmint) and Bojan Barakov (OpenSettling) discuss how AI agents and stablecoins are reshaping fintech infrastructure. From smart wallets to agent-to-agent transactions, blockchain is enabling machine-to-machine commerce at scale.

A panel at Bermuda Digital Asset Week examined how tokenized funds are transforming institutional capital management. Speakers from Franklin Templeton, Coinbase, and Apex Group discussed how blockchain infrastructure cuts costs while enabling new asset classes and institutional-grade efficiency.

Spanish-language tutorial reviewing XLM wallets for Stellar, covering hot wallets (Lobster, Trust Wallet, Freighter) and cold storage options (Ledger, Trezor, Keypair), with emphasis on Stellar's tokenization potential and upcoming US regulation.

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.

Stellar is building improved onboarding solutions using Passkeys and Wallet Kit to eliminate seed phrases and complex wallet setup, enabling Web3 adoption at scale with Web2-like user experience while maintaining cryptographic security.

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.

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.

OpenZeppelin releases smart account libraries for Stellar smart contracts, enabling programmable authorization systems with context rules, signers, and policies. The demo showcases USDC payments, forex swaps, and multisig treasury operations.

Four infrastructure leaders discuss how payment cards bridge mainstream crypto adoption. Panelists from Polygon, Stellar, Visa, and Pi Squared share distinct strategies: Polygon focuses LATAM peer-to-peer volume; Stellar leverages batteries-included payments infrastructure; Visa integrates stablecoins into its merchant network; Pi Squared explores alternative non-blockchain payment infrastructure.

Pifo from AHA Company demonstrates Moonlight, a non-custodial privacy protocol for Stellar, showcasing the sandbox environment with account setup, quorum management, channel configuration, and private transactions between users arriving to testnet soon.

BrightTech released Stellar Wallet Kit v2, the popular SDK for integrating Stellar wallets into frontend applications. The video demonstrates setup, wallet connection, and transaction signing in both React and Vanilla JS with live examples.

Panel discussion at Meridian conference on simplifying crypto UX through wallet infrastructure, stablecoins, and remittances. Speakers from Stellar, Privy, and Beans discuss hiding blockchain complexity to enable mainstream adoption.

Enrique shares his four-year journey building wallets in Stellar, discussing why smart wallets matter for user adoption and announcing XBull V2, which combines classic account benefits with smart wallet features using passkey authentication.

Beans, Blend, and DeFindex collaborate to enable non-custodial yield earning for everyday users. The integration abstracts DeFi complexity, allowing Beans users to earn 10x+ bank rates on stablecoins through automated Blend lending strategies without seeing gas fees or technical details.

Akuna wallet, built on Stellar, enables African creators to monetize globally by providing virtual US dollar accounts and stablecoin holdings. The platform addresses barriers preventing Africa's 1.4 billion people from accessing the creator economy, with actor Idris Elba discussing how technology can leapfrog infrastructure gaps.

Okiki, PM for Freighter, announced Freighter Mobile, a new reference wallet for Stellar and Soroban now live on iOS and Android. The app features a Discover tab for dApps, SEP50 NFT support, Blockade integration for transaction security, and SEP53 message signatures for safe smart contract interactions.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

Civitas ID, a human-centered digital identity system for displaced persons and refugees, is being built on Stellar to solve the invisibility crisis affecting 123 million displaced people globally. The platform aims to bridge humanitarian aid dependency into formal economic participation through portable, verifiable credentials.

Meridian Pay is a Stellar Smart Wallet built by SDF and Cheesecake Labs that delivers Web2-like UX on mainnet. It uses passkeys for passwordless authentication, Merkle trees for efficient token distribution, and the wallet backend for fee sponsorship and transaction indexing.