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21
NOV 2024
1 story
November 21, 2024
SCFstellar.org
A Peek at Meridian’s Dev Underground, the Hyper-Speed Stage

A detailed recap of Meridian 2024's Dev Underground stage in London, where 80+ Stellar Community Fund winners pitched their projects over two days in a casual, collaborative environment. The article highlights standout projects, community collaborations, and the vibrant energy of builders across the Stellar ecosystem.

13
NOV 2024
1 story
November 13, 2024
DeFimedium.com
USDX from the FxDAO protocol, is now available on Soroswap Finance

USDx stablecoin from FxDAO protocol is now live on Soroswap Finance, the first DEX on Soroban Blockchain, with a $190,000 TVL liquidity pool for the XLM/USDx pair. Users can issue USDx by locking Lumens as collateral in FxDAO vaults for liquidity without selling assets. The article guides on acquiring, swapping, and providing liquidity for USDx on Soroswap.

30
OCT 2024
3 stories
October 30, 2024
Walletsmedium.com
Easily Swap Tokens on Soroswap from Your Mobile with Hana Wallet

Hana Wallet now integrates Soroswap, allowing users to easily swap Stellar tokens like XLM and USDC directly from their mobile devices. The article provides a step-by-step guide to installing Hana Wallet, setting it up for the Stellar network, and accessing Soroswap via the app's DApps directory. This enhances decentralized finance accessibility on the Soroban ecosystem without KYC requirements.

16
OCT 2024
1 story
October 16, 2024
DeFizkcrossnetwork.medium.com
Introducing Super Accounts on Stellar: Revolutionising Cross-Chain DeFi with zkCrossDEX and Chain…

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.

15
OCT 2024
1 story
October 15, 2024
10
OCT 2024
1 story
October 10, 2024
DeFichartui.medium.com
Maximize Your Trading Strategies: The Zero-Fee Advantage of Stellar DEX

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.

9
OCT 2024
1 story
October 9, 2024
DeFichartui.medium.com
Introducing Chartui: A Customizable Trading Client for the Stellar DEX

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.

3
OCT 2024
1 story
October 3, 2024
DeFimedium.com
How Runtime Verification Helped Soroswap Transform Into an AMM Aggregator

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.

26
SEP 2024
1 story
September 26, 2024
Educationmirror.xyz
My learning journey about Stellar

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.

24
SEP 2024
1 story
September 24, 2024
DeFimedium.com
Protocol Selection: Customize Your Swapping Experience

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.

20
SEP 2024
1 story
September 20, 2024
DeFimedium.com
Introducing the ClickPesa Debt Fund: Transforming SME finance in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

16
SEP 2024
2 stories
September 16, 2024
Stablecoinsmedium.com
The Next Frontier: Unlocking the Potential of Non-USD Stablecoins with OnChain FX

The article explores the rising potential of non-USD stablecoins in DeFi, highlighting their role in global financial inclusion and cross-border payments. It discusses EVM-compatible chains and projects like Spacewalk, which bridges Polkadot and Stellar ecosystems, alongside Vortex for fiat conversions. These innovations promise efficient on-chain FX markets and reduced reliance on traditional systems.

6
SEP 2024
1 story
September 6, 2024
DeFizkcrossnetwork.medium.com
zkCross Network Raises the Bar with Oversubscribed Seed, Public Rounds

zkCross Network announces its oversubscribed seed and strategic funding rounds, backed by investors including Stellar, ahead of a $2.6M public sale. The project offers chain abstraction infrastructure to simplify cross-chain DeFi with features like messaging systems, liquidity aggregation, and decentralized protocols. A detailed roadmap outlines expansion across blockchains, targeting massive user growth.

3
SEP 2024
1 story
September 3, 2024
DeFimedium.com
$NGNC Listing Announcement on Soroswap.Finance

Soroswap.Finance, the first DEX on the Soroban Blockchain in the Stellar ecosystem, announces the listing of $NGNC, a Naira-pegged stablecoin natively supported on Stellar. This enhances liquidity, FX utility, and cross-border payments for Nigerian users. Users can trade, add liquidity, and swap NGNC with assets like XLM, BTC, ETH, and USDC.

23
AUG 2024
2 stories
August 23, 2024
DeFimedium.com
xRF Token Now Available on Soroswap.Finance

The xRF token, utility cryptocurrency for the Reflector Oracle Network, is now available on Soroswap.Finance, the first DEX on the Soroban blockchain. It enables governance, rewards for node operators, and subscriptions for price feeds. This integration leverages Stellar's ecosystem for efficient DeFi trading.

20
AUG 2024
2 stories
August 20, 2024
DeFithedefiant.io
What is Phoenix? Exploring DeFi on Stellar

Phoenix is a DeFi hub being built on Stellar's Soroban smart contract platform. The explainer video covers what Phoenix is and its role in the Stellar DeFi ecosystem.

15
AUG 2024
1 story
August 15, 2024
DeFidecrypt.co
Phoenix Rising: Building the One-Stop Shop for DeFi on Stellar

Phoenix DeFi Hub has launched on Stellar's Soroban smart contract platform, starting with a decentralized exchange in May and planning an NFT marketplace and additional protocols. The platform aims to be a comprehensive DeFi solution leveraging Stellar's on/off-ramp infrastructure and stablecoin ecosystem.

14
AUG 2024
1 story
August 14, 2024
DeFimedium.com
Charla Stellar Chile: Del Efectivo a las Finanzas Descentralizadas

PaltaLabs and Soroswap hosted an educational event at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on August 8, 2024, bringing together 50+ entrepreneurs and developers to explore blockchain, DeFi, and smart contracts on Stellar. The event featured presentations on Soroswap's decentralized exchange, USDC integration, regulatory considerations, and networking opportunities.

6
AUG 2024
1 story
August 6, 2024
Smart Contractstokenops.xyz
Understanding Token Streaming and Vesting Protocols – TokenOps

This article explains token vesting and streaming protocols, highlighting their importance for crypto projects to align incentives and prevent dumps. It details closed-ended and open-ended streaming models, with examples like Sablier, Superfluid, Hedgey, and LlamaPay. TokenOps is presented as a platform integrating these for efficient vesting management.

2
AUG 2024
1 story
August 2, 2024
Oraclesreflector-network.medium.com
Announcing the Reflector DAO and xRF Token

Reflector is a decentralized oracle protocol for Stellar that provides reliable price feeds for smart contracts and DeFi applications. The protocol is governed by the Reflector DAO using the xRF utility token, which enables governance, rewards cluster operators, and provides access to advanced price feed subscriptions.

30
JUL 2024
1 story
July 30, 2024
DeFiblog.balanced.network
Roadmap update | Q3 2024

Balanced Network's Q2 2024 update details deployments on five new blockchains including Avalanche, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Base, and Havah, alongside smart contract audits and cross-chain preparations. Governance saw 19 proposals passed, with the DAO earning $33k in fees and burning ICX as part of economic enshrinement with ICON. Q3 plans include cross-chain loans and launches on Injective, Optimism, Polygon, and Stellar.

24
JUL 2024
1 story
July 24, 2024
DeFiblog.balanced.network
The state of cross-chain on Balanced

Balanced, a cross-chain DeFi platform originally on ICON, has rapidly expanded with five new blockchain connections in 2024, boosting availability by 250%. Upcoming plans include front-end integrations for Injective and Optimism, cross-chain loans, and phase two connections to Solana, Stacks, Stellar, Sui, and more. The update highlights improved trading with unified multi-chain assets and Stability Fund enhancements.

9
JUL 2024
3 stories
July 9, 2024
Smart Contractsblockworks.com
The Web3 builder’s guide to Stellar

Stellar's newly launched Soroban smart contracts platform addresses key Web3 pain points including liquidity fragmentation, high transaction costs, and accessibility. With 80,000+ USDC on-ramps globally, an established user base of 8.4 million accounts, and a $100 million SDF commitment to builders, Stellar offers a mature, scalable foundation for DeFi development.