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Fajrin, a self-taught developer from South Kalimantan, led the first Stellar Ambassador gathering in his region and is now building Cyphras, a private payments wallet on Soroban, after winning Instawards funding through the Ambassador Program. His story illustrates how the Stellar ecosystem turns early-stage builders into real shipping products.

OtterSec researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in React Native WebView and similar mobile wallet libraries. Missing origin isolation allows malicious dApps to access camera, GPS, and other permissions without user consent, affecting over 20 production wallets across the ecosystem.

OctoPos RMS, a real-time DeFi risk monitoring system built by crediolabs, went live on Stellar to monitor Blend's lending pools. The tool detects oracle anomalies and health risks, addressing an operational gap as institutional capital moves on-chain.

Protocol 25 and 26 introduced zero-knowledge primitives (BN254, Poseidon) that make private payment systems practical on Stellar. Arcane is building production infrastructure for compliance-ready privacy, enabling builders to protect sensitive financial flows on public rails while maintaining clear disclosure and reporting paths.

Founder Josh built Peridot after realizing DeFi's core problem: fragmented liquidity and painful capital movement across chains. The bootstrapped team has shipped a Hub & Spoke cross-chain lending protocol live on Stellar and other networks with competitive yields. Next: margin trading, dual investment products, and an AI agent for portfolio guidance.

Rivool integrated Blend's DeFi lending protocol to bring onchain yield into managed, risk-profiled strategies for financial advisors and their clients. Instead of requiring investors to understand wallets and protocols, advisors can now offer yield-bearing strategies that match their clients' risk profiles. The integration solves a key gap: distribution. Onchain yield exists, but reaching end investors requires abstraction and trust.

MoneyGram launches MGUSD on Stellar: a stablecoin that gives its 60 million customers self-custodial digital dollar balances connected to MoneyGram's global cash-access network. The product prioritizes real-world utility for underbanked populations over trading liquidity, paired with treasury modernization across stablecoin prefunding and settlement.

Merkl expanded beyond EVM chains in May, launching Stellar support as its first non-EVM integration. The platform also shipped Trezor Suite integration, giving 2 million hardware wallet users access to onchain yield, and opened a new Developer Portal with API access and campaign management tools.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced a three-stage roadmap to migrate the network to post-quantum cryptography by 2027+. Quantum computers will eventually break the elliptic curve cryptography securing blockchains. Stellar's separation of account identity from signing keys avoids disruptive address migration unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Stellar Security Portal redesigned for June 2026 with threaded comments on vulnerability reports, community ratings for protocols and auditors, and major performance improvements. Contributor access expanded beyond the Pilot tier, allowing SCF members and navigators to add and edit audits. The portal now tracks nearly 700 vulnerabilities ecosystem-wide.

Homomorphic encryption enables computations on encrypted data without decryption—the results match plaintext outcomes. For enterprise and tokenized real-world assets, this unlocks confidential balances, compliance checks, and transaction logic that stays hidden from counterparties while the network coordinates outcomes.

Stellar's native asset protocol and Soroban smart contracts form a complete payment infrastructure stack. This guide walks through building cross-border payment flows from first principles: anchors for on/off ramps, the native DEX for asset exchange, and Soroban contracts for business logic including escrow, compliance, and liquidity management.