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Panel discussion on redefining payments through stablecoins and blockchain rails. MoneyGram, AirTM, and Crossmint discuss cross-border remittances, settlement speed, and building accessible payment experiences on Stellar.

A podcast interview with AirTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses the company's 11-year journey solving cross-border payment challenges using stablecoins on Stellar, from Venezuela's hyperinflation to enterprise payroll for 250,000 workers in 150 countries. AirTM excels in the 'last mile' by enabling fast, low-cost cashouts to 488 local payment methods. The conversation highlights Stellar's role, stablecoin advantages, and the need for patience in building generational fintech infrastructure.

At Stellar House event, Stellar Development Foundation's Chief Business Officer Raja interviews Ed from Red Swan on tokenizing real estate on the Stellar blockchain. Ed shares his journey from traditional real estate at Cushman & Wakefield to blockchain after a 2018 conference, highlighting how tokenization democratizes access to high-quality properties via fractional ownership and portfolios like USA Fund and Africa Housing Fund. He emphasizes Stellar's focus on RWAs, liquidity benefits amid market challenges, and emerging markets like Asia and GCC.

Natasha from Boys Club discusses marketing strategies for crypto projects, emphasizing storytelling, media-first approaches, and building brand perception. She shares insights on leveraging events, managing personal vs. brand visibility, and the importance of authentic narrative in Web3 marketing.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts a discussion on Meru, a Stellar-based non-custodial wallet enabling stablecoin adoption in Bolivia amid dollar shortages. Carlos Neira explains Meru's organic growth, user behaviors like QR payments and high-yield savings via Blend, and why Stellar's developer tools and financial interoperability were key choices. The talk covers regulatory shifts, B2B expansions, and emerging market opportunities.

Justin Rice, VP of Ecosystem at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses the future of Stellar's ecosystem, emphasizing interoperability, DeFi protocol growth, zero-knowledge proofs via XRP-25, and the importance of developer community events in fostering innovation across Latin America and globally.

Justin Rice, VP of Ecosystem at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses interoperability, DeFi growth, and the emerging builder community across Latin America. Key focus: more assets and on/off-ramps connecting to DeFi protocols, zero-knowledge primitives enabling new use cases, and unexpected innovations from decentralized builders.

Stellar Community Fund Mainnet Demo Day showcased six live projects: Arrel (institutional payments), Normal (synthetic assets), Trustless Work (escrow infrastructure), Attest Protocol (identity verification), Blux (wallet authentication), and Adamic (blockchain API aggregation).

U.S. Bank, Stellar Development Foundation, and PwC discuss a stablecoin pilot on Stellar designed for regulated financial institutions. The project highlights Stellar's bank-grade features: asset freezing and transaction reversal at the protocol layer, plus privacy controls for enterprise deployments.

Four infrastructure leaders discuss how payment cards bridge mainstream crypto adoption. Panelists from Polygon, Stellar, Visa, and Pi Squared share distinct strategies: Polygon focuses LATAM peer-to-peer volume; Stellar leverages batteries-included payments infrastructure; Visa integrates stablecoins into its merchant network; Pi Squared explores alternative non-blockchain payment infrastructure.

Pifo from AHA Company demonstrates Moonlight, a non-custodial privacy protocol for Stellar, showcasing the sandbox environment with account setup, quorum management, channel configuration, and private transactions between users arriving to testnet soon.

BrightTech released Stellar Wallet Kit v2, the popular SDK for integrating Stellar wallets into frontend applications. The video demonstrates setup, wallet connection, and transaction signing in both React and Vanilla JS with live examples.

Patricio Zavala, Crypto Valley ambassador for Latin America, explains how Switzerland's Zug region became a blockchain hub and outlines a strategy to replicate this model across Latin America by establishing clear regulation, banking infrastructure, and community spaces for crypto talent and startups.

Governance Futures finale explores neural quorum governance, a voting model that prevents plutocracy by weighting inputs (Discord tier, voting history, trust) and enabling group delegation. Discussion covers how community culture and long-term commitment define genuine ecosystems.

Brian Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs, discusses the evolution from wrapped assets and bridges to omni-chain tokens (OFTs) via LayerZero's permissionless messaging layer. He highlights the recent integration with Stellar announced at Meridian, enabling native asset movement across chains without fragmentation or security risks. LayerZero facilitates immutable, low-cost transfers, exemplified by an $800M transaction costing under a dollar.

OpenZeppelin presents new Stellar smart contract libraries including a smart account framework for passkey-based authorization, an ERC-4626 compatible token vault, and real-world asset (RWA) contracts with identity and compliance modules.

Dock Protocol presents DOP Token Studio, a decentralized funding platform for Latin American infrastructure operators. The system tokenizes future revenue from projects like solar energy installations, enabling crowdfunded investment with smart contract-based revenue distribution and on-chain verification.

OpenZeppelin presents their managed Stellar Relayer service with a channels plugin for parallel transaction processing. The service enables gasless, high-throughput transactions on Stellar with automatic fee bumping and sequence number management.

A documentary explores Argentina's economic crisis, hyperinflation, and heavy reliance on informal dollar markets and stablecoins like USDT and USDC. Despite economic improvements under President Milei, distrust in the formal banking system and high taxes drive continued adoption of stablecoins as a dollar proxy. The content reveals stablecoins bridging fiat and crypto in emerging markets facing currency instability.

Developer builds open-source Rust tool for efficient Stellar data access, combining RPC nodes and public data lake queries with REST API and command-line interfaces.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Danelle Dixon discusses Stellar's privacy strategy using zero-knowledge proofs and partnerships, strong growth in real-world asset tokenization ranking #2 in treasuries, and projects like RedSwan for real estate. She highlights institutional adoption by Centrifuge, Ondo, PayPal, and future scalability for everyday financial services. Dixon advocates for open blockchain networks to avoid Web2 centralization mistakes.

Stellar Development Foundation announced Protocol 24, an emergency upgrade to fix a state archival bug discovered in Protocol 23. The bug affected 77 ledger entries out of 47 million; the fix will correct archived entries and unblock affected transactions. Mainnet vote scheduled for Wednesday.

In this Block by Block podcast episode, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Danelle Dixon interviews Etherfuse CEO Dave Taylor about tokenizing local currency sovereign bonds as 'stable bonds' on the Stellar blockchain. They discuss how this enables cheap FX, yield-bearing local currency assets, and reduces dollarization in emerging markets like Mexico and Brazil. Etherfuse aims to bring over 100 sovereign currencies on-chain to empower local economies and interoperability.

Decaf and Etherfuse discuss their partnership building real-world financial services on Stellar in Latin America, focusing on sovereign debt tokenization and cross-border payments while emphasizing open ecosystem collaboration.