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Abroad participated in Stellar's Meridian 2025 conference in Rio de Janeiro, showcasing partnerships and real-world stablecoin payments in Latin America. Key highlights included the native issuance of PayPal's PYUSD on Stellar, HackMeridian innovations, and Abroad's launches with ZyptoApp and BeansApp. The event demonstrated Abroad's growth with 66 monthly active users and over 910 transactions on Stellar.

Stellar has announced plans to join Chainlink's Scale program and integrate Chainlink's Data Feeds, Data Streams, and Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to expand developer and institutional capabilities on the network. This integration will enable secure cross-chain connectivity and trusted data access, strengthening Stellar's position as a bridge between real-world assets and DeFi.

Myosin hosted a marketing-focused event at Korea Blockchain Week in partnership with Stellar, featuring panels on crypto GTM strategies, a discussion on crypto and traditional finance convergence, and marketing roasts of projects including Blend Capital, a DeFi lending protocol on Stellar.

Meridian 2025, held in Rio de Janeiro, showcased the Stellar ecosystem's collaborative blueprint for building open financial infrastructure. The conference featured major announcements from PayPal, Ondo, Mercado Bitcoin, Centrifuge, and others, alongside HackMeridian where 400+ builders created 110+ projects across innovation and composability tracks.

Hoops Finance shares their success in the Myosin x BuildOnStellar GTM Accelerator, winning best Go-To-Market Strategy by refining their messaging around Stellar-based Smart Accounts and APIs. They highlight their Meridian 2025 pitch in Rio and the launch of Trustfall: Vault Wars, a gamified DeFi experience on Stellar. The post outlines future plans to scale their innovative DeFi tools.

RedSwan Digital Real Estate is tokenizing $100 million in commercial real estate assets on Stellar, enabling fractional ownership and 24/7 secondary market liquidity for global investors through regulatory-compliant securities.

A Stellar Development Foundation Senior Marketing Advisor shares their first-month experience joining @StellarOrg to lead APAC strategy. They highlight Stellar's focus on real-world financial problems, the recent Soroban smart contract upgrade enabling complex dApps, and opportunities for founders and developers to build on the ecosystem.

Stellar has established major institutional partnerships with Circle, MoneyGram, Franklin Templeton, PayPal, and ClickPesa, demonstrating its utility for stablecoin issuance, tokenized assets, cross-border payments, and financial inclusion. The network now supports over $184 million in USDC and $502 million in tokenized funds, positioning itself as a bridge between traditional finance and crypto.

Vanish Trade, a privacy-first trading platform on Solana, partners with Range for real-time risk screening to balance privacy and compliance. Range provides cross-chain intelligence, sanctions monitoring, and KYB/KYT analytics to prevent illicit activity while protecting legitimate traders. Range also supports Stellar and other ecosystems in onchain compliance.

Range announces a partnership with zeroShadow to integrate forensic-grade incident intelligence into its blockchain security platform. This collaboration enhances threat detection and incident response for ecosystems including Stellar. Real-time data from zeroShadow's investigations will improve Range's Transaction Security and Risk API products.

The Stellar Development Foundation has formed a strategic partnership with Archax, a UK-regulated digital asset exchange, involving a direct SDF investment to accelerate tokenization and real-world asset adoption on the Stellar network. The collaboration leverages Archax's regulatory credentials and institutional relationships to bring institutional-grade tokenized assets on-chain.

Stellar Development Foundation invested in Archax, a UK-regulated digital asset exchange, to accelerate real-world asset tokenization on Stellar. Archax has tokenized money market funds and partnered with Lloyds Bank and Aberdeen Asset Management, bringing over 100 tokenized funds to the network.

The Stellar Development Foundation has joined the ERC3643 Association to advance compliant asset tokenization standards. SDF will contribute to promoting real-world asset adoption, open-source development, and cross-chain interoperability between Stellar and Ethereum-based standards.

July was a landmark month for Stellar, featuring new SDF leadership appointments, major integrations with Visa for stablecoin settlement, and significant ecosystem advances in DeFi, cross-chain communication, and developer tooling. The network celebrated its 11th birthday while the community engaged in global hackathons and grant programs.

Cheesecake Labs expands its five-year partnership with Stellar Development Foundation, serving as official ambassador at Blockchain Rio 2025 and Meridian 2025. The company has built multiple solutions on Stellar including MoneyGram Wallet, Vesseo Wallet, and MBRL stablecoin, positioning itself to capitalize on stablecoin opportunities following the GENIUS Act.

Visa expanded its settlement network to support additional stablecoins including PayPal USD and Global Dollar, plus euro-pegged EURC, and added Stellar and Avalanche blockchain support. However, merchant adoption remains minimal, with stablecoin payments representing less than 1% of overall activity.

Visa expanded stablecoin settlement support to include PYUSD, USDG, and EURC on Avalanche and Stellar networks, joining existing Ethereum and Solana support. The move reflects growing institutional adoption of stablecoins following the U.S. GENIUS Act regulatory framework.

Women Biz shares July activities and announces August opportunities including English club, legal workshops, stablecoins education, and a Stellar Ideathon hackathon in Lima.

@StellarOrg and @Giveth launched a $50,000 matching grant program using Quadratic Funding to support community-led Stellar educational events worldwide. The initiative aims to identify new community leaders and ambassadors while fostering global adoption through workshops, hackathons, and localized content.

José Fernández da Ponte joins the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) as President and Chief Growth Officer, bringing expertise from PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin launch and fintech scaling. In an interview with Denelle Dixon, he emphasizes utility, trust, regulatory alignment, and community-driven growth to expand Stellar's adoption. His focus includes partnerships, distribution, and building non-excludable financial infrastructure for global inclusion.

Trustless Work participated in Casa Builders CDMX, a Stellar-hosted hackathon in Mexico focusing on financial inclusion, digital identity, and public good transparency. Their team built Pacto, a decentralized P2P stablecoin ramp using Trustless Work's programmable escrow, and won the event. The hackathon united Latin American builders, with strong Costa Rican representation.