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zkCross Network announces Super Accounts on Stellar, powered by their Chain Abstraction Layer, enabling seamless 1-click cross-chain DeFi transactions without bridging or gas management. This integrates zkCrossDEX with Stellar's Soroban blockchain, supported by a Stellar Community Fund grant. The phased roadmap includes AMM DEX, staking, launchpad, and perpetuals trading.

Stellar Development Foundation integrates Mastercard's Crypto Credential solution as the exclusive credentialing system for its ecosystem, enabling secure and compliant crypto remittances and peer-to-peer transfers through wallet providers like Coins.ph, Mercado Bitcoin, and Wirex.

Stellar DEX offers zero-fee trading, providing a significant edge for strategies like scalping and arbitrage by eliminating percentage-based costs that erode profits on other exchanges. Minimal network fees of 0.0001 XLM ensure negligible impact, while AMMs enhance liquidity on key pairs like XLM/USDC. The article highlights pros, cons, and tools like Chartui to maximize trading potential.

Chartui is a new customizable trading client designed specifically for the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (DEX). It offers real-time prices, charts, order books, trades, multi-pair monitoring, and multi-account management. Traders can personalize layouts, widgets, and analysis tools to enhance their Stellar DeFi experience.

AUDC, a Novatti Group fintech company, has issued AUDD, an Australian dollar-backed stablecoin on the Stellar network, to solve cross-border payment liquidity challenges for financial institutions. By leveraging Stellar's DEX and a companion asset (AUDR) for on-demand minting, AUDD enables faster, cheaper, and more efficient global transactions.

Rehoboth Finance releases a step-by-step onboarding guide for its Stellar-based wallet. The tutorial covers account creation, two-factor authentication, adding assets via fiat onramp or transfers, asset swaps, and earning real-time yield. The non-custodial wallet supports XLM, USDC, BTC, ETH, and wrapped versions.

Tansu integrates stellar.expert's contract validation mechanism to ensure its on-chain contract matches the source code repository. This uses GitHub actions and SLSA attestations for supply-chain security. The feature verifies contract provenance on the Stellar blockchain explorer.

Soroswap, the first DEX on Stellar blockchain, evolved into an AMM aggregator to combat fragmented liquidity. They partnered with PaltaLabs for development and Runtime Verification for auditing via the Stellar Audit Bank program. The audit enhanced security and provided key insights like using deployer contracts.

The Stellar Development Foundation has launched an all-new Stellar Lab, a modernized web-based toolkit for developers to create accounts, test transactions, explore RPC methods and Horizon endpoints, and interact with the Stellar network. The redesigned interface includes mobile optimization, XDR-to-JSON conversion support, and the ability to save and share API requests.

The Stellar Development Foundation welcomes Raja Chakravorti as its new Chief Business Officer. With two decades of experience in fintech and payments from roles at Plaid, Root, and PayPal, Raja brings expertise in business development and financial services scaling to support the Stellar ecosystem's growth.

A Bolivian woman shares her educational journey through a Stellar-focused bootcamp organized by Women Biz community, where she learned DeFi fundamentals, created her own token, and developed blockchain-based project ideas for cultural tokenization and decentralized entrepreneurship.

Tansu, a Stellar dApp, introduces an on-chain 'Support' button for funding open source projects directly via Soroban Domains. This creates transparent, costless, and borderless funding using Stellar addresses and smart contracts. Future developments include DAO-based fund management through the SCF Build program.

Soroswap Finance introduces a new protocol selection feature allowing users to manually choose between Soroswap AMM and SDEX for optimal swaps on the Stellar network. By default, it automatically selects the best protocol based on current prices. This enhances flexibility and control for traders using Soroban's liquidity pools and Stellar's classic DEX.

Mercury has released Retroshades, a smart contract indexing technology designed specifically for Soroban-supporting chains. Retroshades allows developers to build custom indexers in minutes by defining data structures directly within smart contracts, eliminating the need to learn new technologies or manage complex infrastructure.

Tansu project announces submission for SCF Build award, outlining plans for a decentralized platform with DAOs for project management and reputation badges for contributors. The proposal includes on-chain release processes, fund allocation via wallets and potential Quadratic Funding, and a detailed roadmap across MVP, Testnet, and Mainnet phases. Emphasis is placed on community governance, transparency, and open-source sustainability within the Stellar ecosystem.

ClickPesa has launched the ClickPesa Debt Fund, a DeFi lending facility built on Stellar and powered by Soroban smart contracts, designed to provide financing to SMEs and women-owned businesses across Africa. The fund's SME I Pool uses Script3's Blend protocol and offers up to 12% annual interest with quarterly repayments, backed by ClickPesa Collateral Tokens (CPCT) pegged to real microfinance loan books.

Runtime Verification introduces Komet, a formal verification and fuzzing tool for Soroban smart contracts on the Stellar blockchain, funded by the Stellar Community Fund. The tool aims to enhance smart contract security through mathematical guarantees against vulnerabilities. The team seeks continued community support to expand its capabilities.