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Chad Oh from The Aha Company presents Scaffold Stellar, a rapid application development tool for building Stellar dApps with smart defaults and minimal setup. The talk covers the Stellar Scaffold CLI for project initialization and the Stellar Registry for publishing and managing WASM binaries on-chain.

Stellar Development Foundation presents confidential transfer protocol for Stellar blockchain, enabling encrypted transaction amounts and balances while maintaining regulatory compliance through selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs.

Legal experts from the U.S. and Brazil discuss crypto regulation at Meridian 2025, covering the Genius Act for stablecoins, the Clarity Act, Brazil's Central Bank oversight framework, and how clear regulation can foster innovation while protecting investors.

PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin is now live on Stellar. The USD 1.3 billion market cap stablecoin has grown 160% year-to-date and will enable checkout at millions of PayPal merchants through Stellar wallets with sub-1% fees.

RTM CEO Ruben Galindo discusses 11 years of stablecoin payments innovation, revealing that despite proven technical superiority over PayPal, the industry remains 70x smaller and faces challenges around liquidity, consumer adoption, and coordinated ecosystem efforts to scale.

Okiki, PM for Freighter, announced Freighter Mobile, a new reference wallet for Stellar and Soroban now live on iOS and Android. The app features a Discover tab for dApps, SEP50 NFT support, Blockade integration for transaction security, and SEP53 message signatures for safe smart contract interactions.

A keynote on how stablecoins and programmable money can transform everyday payments through automation, spending guardrails, and yield generation, moving beyond faster settlement to smarter financial behavior.

Jose Pereira, newly appointed president and chief growth officer at SDF, discusses Stellar's positioning for enterprise adoption amid improving regulatory clarity. He emphasizes that uptime, compliance, and infrastructure matter more than speed and cost alone, and highlights the importance of maintaining decentralization while scaling.

Panel discussion on stablecoin adoption in emerging markets featuring Vesio, Digibank, Plexus Institute, and filmmaker Justin Norman. Speakers shared ground-level insights on how stablecoins are solving real problems in Argentina, Brazil, Syria, and other regions through localized solutions and last-mile infrastructure.

Brazilian Central Bank, fintech leaders, and development bank officials discuss CBDC, tokenization, and blockchain adoption in Brazil. Focus on cooperation between public and private sectors, financial inclusion through PIX, and lessons learned from blockchain pilots.

Circle's Daniel Pérez discusses CCTP v2 coming to Stellar in Q1 2026, enabling deeper liquidity and lower-cost remittances across Latin America. The integration addresses regulatory clarity and builder needs in the region.

Meridian conference panel featuring Arculus tap-to-pay hardware wallets, PwC guidance on enterprise blockchain adoption, Alfred's stablecoin payment infrastructure across Latin America, and Mercado Bitcoin's 1.5B reais in tokenized credit on Stellar.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO unveils Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built with Cheesecake Labs, at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet showcases Stellar's capabilities for real-world financial applications with open-sourced code, smart contract templates, and instant XLM disbursement to attendees.

DTCC executive Nadine discusses how DTCC Digital Assets, built on Securrency technology, is tokenizing U.S. markets and bridging traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure through open, interoperable platforms.

Tomer, SDF Chief Product Officer, outlines Stellar's privacy strategy combining blockchain transparency with user privacy through opt-in, configurable solutions. SDF is funding privacy projects, building ZK infrastructure, and developing confidential token and private payment protocols with partners like Nethermind.

Tutorial on the redesigned Stellar Lab covering key pair generation, account creation, funding with Friendbot, and an introduction to muxed accounts for improved user experience in exchange scenarios.

MoneyGram launches next-generation app in Colombia enabling instant USDC transfers on Stellar blockchain, positioning itself as the largest crypto cash on/off ramp bridging physical and digital payments for financial inclusion.

Institutional leaders from Fidelity, S&P Global, and the Stellar Development Foundation discuss barriers to institutional RWA adoption at the Brooklyn summit. Panelists identify regulated custody standards, on-chain compliance automation, distribution mechanisms via yield-bearing stablecoins, and policy clarity as critical requirements for bringing digital assets into traditional finance at scale.

Numix presented the Diamond Proxy Standard for Soroban, enabling upgradable smart contracts with shared storage. This allows asset managers to deploy on-chain without immutability constraints, addressing regulatory compliance needs for real-world asset tokenization on Stellar.

Protocol enhancement proposals for Stellar's Soroban smart contracts: CAP 71 introduces delegated authentication to simplify multi-signer logic, CAP 72 adds contract signers to classic accounts, and CAP 73 enables trust line creation from Soroban.

OpenZeppelin developer Steve Sinkens demonstrates monitors and relayers, open-source backend services for Stellar smart contracts. Monitors watch contracts and trigger notifications; relayers execute transactions on-chain based on custom rules. Both tools are essential for Meridian hackathon participants building on Soroban.

A podcast episode explores the remittance market from the US to Latin America, focusing on why immigrants prefer physical money transfer stores despite available digital options. Felix Pago uses a Spanish-speaking WhatsApp chatbot powered by stablecoins on the Stellar blockchain to enable fast, cheap cross-border payments to Mexico. The service abstracts crypto complexity, building trust through familiar interfaces while leveraging blockchain for efficiency.

XBid AI demonstrates its flexible plugin system for data injection, showing how Reflector oracles feed price data to the AI agent on Stellar. The system normalizes prices and exposes observables like slope and freshness for strategies to consume.

Esteban Iglesias from Paltolabs presents SourceSwap and DeFindex, two major DeFi protocols on Stellar. SourceSwap is a DEX aggregator that routes trades across multiple liquidity sources via smart contracts and APIs, while DeFindex enables wallets and fintech apps to offer yield-generating savings accounts through automated DeFi strategies.