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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.

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.

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.

Bitbond's no-code Offering Manager automates end-to-end compliant token issuance: configure offering terms (price, caps, discounts), onboard investors through KYC/AML, accept payments via bank transfer, card, or stablecoin, and issue tokens on close. One dashboard, no developers required.

Stellar Raven, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, ensures AI agents have accurate Stellar knowledge. Introduced at the Stellar Developers Meeting, the tool aggregates documentation, ecosystem data, and verified sources to prevent LLM hallucination when building on Stellar.

GrantFox community call #2 provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the platform's open-source contribution workflow. Covers the maintainer side: project onboarding approval criteria, repository linking and campaign registration, and detailed issue creation. Also demonstrates the contributor experience: application system with tier metrics, reputation tracking, and a newly-requested withdrawal feature to prevent stalled applications from blocking slots.

The Stellar Community Fund hosted its July 2026 mainnet demo day, showcasing 75 awarded projects live on the network. Featured presentations included Inference, a formal verification language for Soroban smart contracts, and Lumen Loop, an ecosystem content aggregator and project directory.

Protocol 27 will implement CAP-712, a signature security improvement for Soroban custom accounts. The update addresses a narrow vulnerability in signature pre-image handling and introduces address credentials v2 while maintaining backward compatibility. CAP-711 makes modular custom accounts easier to build and deploy.