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Donnell Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar's ambitious $3 billion RWA goal for the year and the network's early leadership in tokenization since 2019 with Franklin Templeton. He covers the evolution from tokenized fiat and gold to native on-chain securities, stablecoins like PYUSD launching on Stellar, and benefits like reduced OPEX, 24/7 yields, and collateral mobility. Regulatory clarity is accelerating adoption, validating Stellar's long-term vision.

Société Générale Forge and Upheaval discuss launching bank-backed stablecoins on Stellar, covering regulatory compliance, ecosystem partnerships, and the challenges of integrating with DeFi protocols while maintaining institutional oversight.

Tomer Weller, CPO at Stellar, discusses real-world stablecoin adoption including RTM wallet processing $1.2B annually, aid distribution in Ukraine, and the MoneyGram partnership enabling USDC off-ramping across 400,000 agents globally.

Multi-chain DeFi panel featuring Relay Protocol, Flare, Stellar Development Foundation, and Pyth discussing cross-chain interoperability, data protocols, and access solutions. Panelists debate trade-offs between decentralization, security, and user experience while emphasizing the need to simplify messaging and grow the overall crypto ecosystem rather than compete for developers.

Stellar ecosystem leaders discuss real-world adoption, security challenges, and privacy roadmap. Blockade integration protects users from fraud across four wallets; Stellar prioritizes privacy-preserving protocols for institutional compliance.

Danielle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses why stablecoin adoption is accelerating now after years of infrastructure building. She attributes the shift to improved regulation, better UX design, and growing institutional interest in using blockchain for payments and treasury management.

Two developers live-code a fungible token and NFT contract on Soroban using the Soroban Playground, a new web-based IDE for smart contract development. They deploy working contracts to testnet and explore the contract explorer interface.

Developer builds a binary prediction market smart contract on Stellar's Soroban platform, demonstrating how to create true/false outcome betting using open-source code with token transfers, oracle integration, and individual claim functions.

Caio Matos, CEO of NierX, announces Hack Meridian, a global blockchain hackathon coming to Rio de Janeiro on September 15-16, 2025, hosted at Copacabana Palace with 50,000 USD in prizes and 500 developers from 30+ countries competing across DeFi, Composability, and Open Innovation tracks.

OpenZeppelin released a new NFT royalties extension for Stellar's Soroban smart contracts, enabling developers to set up and earn royalties on NFT collections. The tutorial demonstrates how to deploy and configure the royalty contract on testnet.

Vivo from Ahlabs demonstrates Scaffold Stellar, a comprehensive developer framework for building on Stellar and Soroban. The tool includes CLI plugins, contract templates, local deployment, TypeScript client generation, and an integrated contract explorer frontend.

Alex from Script3 provides a comprehensive overview of Blend, a liquidity protocol primitive on Stellar that enables permissionless lending markets with flexible parameters, backstop insurance modules, and multiple integration points for developers building on Soroban.

A guide to earning money on Stellar through DeFi platforms including Aquarius liquidity rewards, Blend Capital lending, Dogster prediction league, and Phoenix DeFi hub, with the creator sharing personal earnings of 10% monthly APY from Aquarius.

Teague from SDF's dev marketing team provides a recap of Day 5 of the Stellar Builder Summit in Toronto, highlighting presentations, a hackathon with builders working late into the night, go-karting, and upcoming events including a baseball game.

Candace Kelly, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how blockchain technology enables faster, cheaper cross-border payments for humanitarian aid and frontline workers. The Stellar Disbursement Platform has helped UNHCR distribute $5 million to 2,500 Ukrainian families and supports GIZ in paying conflict zone workers, while addressing regulatory challenges and scalability barriers.

Société Générale Forge and Upheaval discuss issuing bank-backed stablecoins on Stellar, covering regulatory compliance, ecosystem partnerships, and DeFi integration challenges for institutional asset issuers.

Stellar and La Nube Cowork, a workspace in Valdivia, Chile, announced a partnership to create a space for blockchain education and community building in Latin America. The alliance aims to increase awareness of Stellar and decentralized technology across the region.

Scaffold Stellar is a new developer tool from Aha Labs that provides a ready-to-use web3 app template for building on Stellar. It includes contract examples, wallet integration, and local network setup to eliminate boilerplate and accelerate dApp development.

Turkish podcast discussion about a hackathon-winning Web2/Web3 social media application project. Founders discuss their vision of creating a social platform that integrates blockchain without forcing users into Web3-only experiences.

Dove Protocol, a Stellar-based platform, tokenizes real-world infrastructure revenue using AI agents and blockchain. The team announced their Early Investor program offering free access to tokenized electric vehicle chargers with revenue sharing, plus a Draper University fellowship.

Scaffold Stellar by AHA Labs is a Rust-based development framework that provides a complete boilerplate for building Soroban smart contracts with pre-integrated frontend wallet support, enabling developers to initialize projects, deploy contracts, and iterate in real-time.

At PMLS 2025 Day 3, four payments industry leaders debate stablecoins as the next global payment rail. Panelists from Stellar, PayPal, Bridge, and Google discuss regulatory clarity, infrastructure abstraction, and pathways to mainstream adoption.

Stellar ecosystem recap from Istanbul covering Berlin Blockchain Week, the Istanbul hackathon with 67 submissions, Beans Earn integration with Blend, DeFi Index launch, Scaffold Stellar updates, and upcoming Hack Meridian in Rio de Janeiro with 50K in prizes.

Freelee pivoted from a Telegram chatbot remittance app to a B2B payout management system after user research in the Philippines revealed that businesses, not individuals, had the real pain point. The team now uses Stellar's fast, low-cost transactions to help companies automate payouts to freelancers and gig workers.