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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.

Rob Dursk from Stellar discusses how blockchain infrastructure can improve traditional finance, particularly for emerging markets. He explains that while Bitcoin's primary goal of creating an alternative currency has limited adoption, blockchain's real value lies in enabling atomic settlement and efficient cross-border capital flows for regulated assets like government bonds, real estate, and private credit.

Ambassador from Chile built a unified onboarding application for Stellar that streamlines wallet creation via phone number OTP, includes token distribution incentives, and provides educational resources to help new users enter the ecosystem.

Tutorial on building a custom stablecoin on Soroban using OpenZeppelin contracts. The creator demonstrates how to create a SEP41 token called JUSD that accepts USDC deposits and mints a corresponding stablecoin in a 1:1 ratio, using a new online IDE.

Stellar Development Foundation announced PYUSD, PayPal's stablecoin, will launch on Stellar this summer. Danelle Dixon discussed how this partnership enables low-fee cross-border payments and financial services for underbanked populations globally.

Orbit CDP is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on Stellar's Blend that lets users mint collateralized stablecoins for any currency with a price feed, from Mexican pesos to Brazilian reals. The team is launching with blind pay integration for zero-fee on/off-ramping and building Hermes, a perpetual exchange for FX trading.

Dogstar is a DeFi learning platform built on Stellar that lets users practice trading and earn rewards risk-free through the Dogstar League competitive game, featuring a non-custodial wallet, decentralized exchange, and liquidity pools.

Toma Weller, CPO at Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how Stellar powers real-world finance through native cash-to-DeFi experiences, institutional partnerships like MoneyGram, and the launch of Soroban smart contracts platform with focus on security, developer experience, and privacy solutions.

Sertora presents Sunbeam, a formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts that uses SMT solvers to mathematically prove code correctness against specifications written in Rust, enabling developers to catch bugs early in the development cycle.

Developer migrates a Solidity perpetual futures contract to Soroban using AI tools, walking through the differences between EVM and Rust/WebAssembly development, contract simplification, and debugging with unit tests.

Tutorial on using OpenZeppelin's Monitor software to track USDC transfers on the Stellar network and send real-time notifications to Telegram. Covers setup, configuration, contract interaction, and bot integration.

Tutorial on creating and deploying an NFT smart contract on Stellar's Soroban network using OpenZeppelin libraries, including contract modifications, metadata creation, and testnet deployment.

Cyber Brawl, a Stellar blockchain game, has launched smart contracts and major new features including three new currencies (Ion, Shard, Kel), reward multipliers, daily/hourly reward pools, quests, and an upcoming auction house for trading cards and assets.

Chad and Feefo from Aha Labs discuss Scaffold Stellar, a developer framework designed to lower the barrier to entry for building on Stellar. The tool automates smart contract deployment, generates TypeScript bindings, and uses React with Vite for frontend development.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, discusses how blockchain technology enables financial inclusion and cross-border payments. She highlights real-world use cases including aid distribution in Ukraine, remittances for migrant workers, and economic empowerment in rural communities.

A technical walkthrough of a Soroban smart contract written in Rust, explaining imports, macros, data structures, storage patterns, and the require_auth security function for on-chain message storage.

Jane from SDF and Chad from Aha Labs discuss Scaffold Stellar, a developer onboarding tool inspired by Scaffold ETH. Aha Labs is building it to help developers quickly set up local networks, deploy contracts, and create UIs, with an early version available by end of May 2025.

Stellar developers discuss launching an idea bank to help builders discover needed projects and coordinate ecosystem development. The initiative aims to guide hackathon participants and identify gaps in the Stellar and Soroban ecosystem.

Developer tutorial demonstrating how to build a web-based wallet using the Stellar SDK and integrate it with Blend Capital smart contracts to enable users to deposit funds and earn yield on their holdings.

Garand from the Stellar Development Foundation explains how a $25M MEV attack on Ethereum exploited proof-of-stake's fundamental security flaws, and contrasts this with Stellar's proof-of-agreement consensus model that requires validators to be trusted by existing network members.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2025 webinar covering three growth goals: top 10 DeFi by TVL, top 10 monthly active addresses, and 10x increase in yield-bearing RWAs. RWA supply reached $757M with $472M in yield-bearing assets; $3.4B in RWA payments processed. Protocol 23 upgrades targeting 5,000 TPS and 2.5-second block times launching soon.

Esteban from Palta Labs discusses SorosWap's DeFi Index product, wallet integrations, and crypto adoption across South America, highlighting Brazil's advanced fintech infrastructure and the potential for blockchain-based financial services.

Stellar protocol developers discuss CAP 70, which introduces configurable consensus timing parameters to enable gradual block time reduction from 5 seconds toward 2.5 seconds, plus review of other protocol 23 CAPs including unified asset events and new host functions.

Fred walks through Cyberball Alpha's new quest system, which went live alongside the Cyber Vault. The game shifts credits to a deflationary model with a daily pool system, hourly rewards, and multipliers based on Kale holdings, avoiding the inflation problems seen in traditional MMOs.