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Stellar Development Foundation launched the Anchor Platform, an out-of-the-box API solution that enables businesses to connect to Stellar in three steps, reducing development time from months to weeks and lowering integration costs for fiat-to-digital asset services.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced five winners of its $5 million Bridge Bounty Program, awarding up to $1 million in XLM each to teams building cross-chain interoperability solutions connecting Stellar with other DeFi ecosystems. Winners include Allbridge, Axelar, Cubist, Kaladin, and Multichain.

MYKOBO announces their attendance at the Stellar Meridian event in Rome. They invite attendees to meet and explore opportunities with their Euro Stablecoin payments solution on Stellar. The post highlights #Stellar, #XLM, #EURC, and #blockchain.

Stellar Quest Learn launches Level Three with XLM rewards (up to 100 XLM total), introduces a Pioneer Quest for wallet onboarding, and removes wallet connection requirements to reduce friction for new users.

The cryptocurrency industry needs clear regulatory standards for stablecoins, similar to USDA organic certification. Without enforceable definitions, consumers lack protection and the term risks losing credibility as tokens like UST collapse.

Stellar Development Foundation released a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework to measure blockchain environmental impacts. Applied to Stellar's Proof-of-Agreement consensus, the analysis shows Stellar's annual footprint equals emissions from 33.7 US homes, demonstrating efficiency by design.

Vitreous, a transparent fundraising platform built on Stellar, won SCF #10. The platform uses Stellar's low fees and anchor network to enable global fundraising with community-enforced accountability through public transaction visibility.

Litemint has launched decentralized NFT auctions on the Stellar blockchain, utilizing time-bound transactions, pre-authorized transactions, and path payments for secure, trustless execution. The system ensures no third-party custody, bid protection until auction end, reserve price enforcement, and participant withdrawal rights. Full settlement occurs on the Stellar DEX via a pre-authorized contract transaction.

Stax, an African fintech app, received $500,000 from the Stellar Development Foundation's Matching Fund to build a non-custodial USDC wallet on Stellar, enabling offline payments via USSD for users with limited mobile data.

SDF CEO Denelle Dixon testified before the U.S. Senate on the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, emphasizing Stellar's role in financial inclusion for the 2 billion unbanked people globally and calling for regulatory clarity to unlock blockchain's potential.

Stellar Development Foundation released the second preview of Soroban, its smart contracts platform, featuring built-in contracts, expanded metering, a new Auth SDK, and significant SDK/CLI improvements including new commands for local development and contract inspection.

Stellar's Meridian 2022 conference returns to Rome for the first time since 2019, bringing together the community to tackle urgent global challenges through collective problem-solving and diverse perspectives on blockchain solutions.

Beans, a non-custodial wallet enabling zero-fee international payments on Stellar, shares insights on winning the Stellar Community Fund Round 10. The app leverages Stellar's fee sponsorship and on/off ramps to simplify cross-border transactions for mainstream users.

Grayscale is facing SEC scrutiny over whether Stellar (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), and Horizen (ZEN) tokens are securities, with the asset manager shifting its legal stance in recent filings to acknowledge these assets may currently qualify as securities under federal law.

LINK, a Nigerian fintech that won Stellar Community Fund Round 10, uses Stellar's anchor infrastructure and NGNC stablecoin to enable fast, cheap cross-border payments across Africa. The company has integrated four businesses with $825k MRR and plans to scale its P2P platform to 50+ countries.

Bitwage, a payroll platform for remote workers, integrated USD Coin (USDC) on Stellar to enable near-zero transaction fees for salary payments. The integration helps workers in Latin America and beyond receive wages faster and cheaper while reducing employer overhead.

Stellar Development Foundation announces a design contest for Meridian 2022, the 4th annual conference in Rome. The winner receives a trip to the event; submissions run through September 3rd, 2022.

Robinhood added Stellar Lumens (XLM) and Avalanche (AVAX) to its platform, bringing total supported cryptocurrencies to 15. XLM gained 6% in 24 hours following the announcement.

SDF launches Stellar Ramps, a suite of open standards enabling applications to connect to a global network of on and off ramps provided by Stellar anchors, making it easier for users to convert fiat to digital assets and vice versa.

This article explains how to integrate the Stellar Network into SME businesses, focusing on public-key cryptography, federation for human-readable addresses, and QR code support in Stellar wallets. It highlights Stellar's advantages over Ethereum ENS and compares it to Bitcoin's bip 0021 payment URIs. Examples include smart anchors like Flutterwave for simplified bank integrations.