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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.