The Stellar Development Foundation hosted a successful AMA on r/CryptoCurrency on January 28, reaching ~30k views and fielding 127 comments. The discussion covered Protocol 25 upgrades, ZK primitives, smart contracts, RWAs (which crossed $1B), payments infrastructure, and ecosystem growth.
SDF conducted an official AMA on r/CryptoCurrency with team members including Denelle Dixon, Justin Rice, Tomer Weller, and José Fernandez da Ponte. The post received ~30k views over 3 days while pinned to a subreddit with 1.15M visitors, generating 127 comments with over 80 questions. Key topics included Protocol 25's BN254 verification and Poseidon hashing enabling ZK applications, Stellar's differentiation through reliability and compliance-friendly payment rails rather than raw TPS competition, Soroban smart contracts written in Rust, RWA growth to $1B, PayPal USD integration, developer tooling needs via SCF RFPs, and ecosystem resources like Freighter wallet and DeFi protocols (Blend, Aquarius, Soroswap). The AMA highlighted Stellar's 24% growth in monthly active addresses, 125% TVL increase, and 20% developer base growth year-over-year.
