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Panel discussion on Real World Assets (RWAs) in DeFi moderated by Tanzil from CryptoNews, featuring speakers from Centrifuge, Stellar Development Foundation, and Moody's Ratings. Key highlights include upcoming Centrifuge DRWA product launch on Stellar with treasury and CLO assets seeded by SDF, enabling open RWA yield access. Discussion covers RWA definitions, market growth to trillions by 2030, institutional adoption, and tokenization benefits.

Findex protocol powers crypto neobanks with savings accounts, demonstrated across Xportal, HANA Wallet, Zipcash, BeansApp, and others. Users deposit stablecoins through Findex vaults to earn APY, with wallet providers controlling UX while using Findex backend infrastructure.

Tutorial on integrating Define Dex API into wallets to offer automated DeFi yield strategies. Covers smart contract architecture, API endpoints, and implementation examples using React and TypeScript SDK.

A tutorial demonstrates building a rebasing token (RUSD) on the Stellar blockchain that accepts USDC deposits and automatically accrues yield by increasing holders' balances. The token uses a share-based system where added collateral, simulating yield from protocols like Blend, proportionally boosts all users' balances without needing to stake or interact further. Users can hold RUSD in their wallets and watch balances grow in real-time.

The Stellar Development Foundation's Q3 2025 quarterly webinar highlights significant network growth, with 37% developer increase, 112% RWA growth to $786M supply, and $5.4B in RWA payment volume. Key updates include WISC protocol launch, privacy strategy advancements, and institutional partnerships like PayPal PYUSD and Visa. Executives discuss progress toward 2025 goals of top 10 DeFi TVL and monthly active addresses, plus 3B on-chain RWAs, with strong momentum into 2026.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an end-of-year community celebration featuring ecosystem leaders discussing 2025 accomplishments and 2026 roadmap priorities, including privacy features via Protocol X-ray, foundation infrastructure overhauls, and expanded regional community programs across 21 countries.

A Stellar ecosystem community event in Rio de Janeiro featuring multiple project pitches including Vansys (buy-borrow-pay app), Spectra (cross-anchor identity solution), Solos Swap (liquidity aggregator), Automated Finance (workflow automation), and discussions on Web3 regulation and RWA tokenization.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and multi-chain product strategy featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights inform product decisions and marketing strategies in web3, emphasizing user experience abstraction over technical complexity.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Myosin, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

The final Stellar Community Fund (SCF) Mainnet Demo Day of 2025 features five live projects: Jetpad Finance (smart wallet for African stablecoin payments), Rahat (anticipatory humanitarian aid on Stellar), Rozo (intent-based stablecoin payment API), Stellar Carbon (carbon credit bridge), and SourceSwap (DeFi aggregator). Hosted by Gemma from SDF's ecosystem growth team, it highlights SCF's community-driven funding and 2025 achievements including over $50M in post-funding raises. Projects demonstrate Stellar's utility in payments, aid, DeFi, and sustainability.

Podcast discussion on interoperability, data intelligence, and web3 product development featuring Arno from Dune, Jana from Miocene, and Esteban from Findex. Speakers explore how data-driven insights and user-centric design are reshaping multi-chain strategies and marketing approaches in crypto.

A panel discussion at a Web3 conference features experts from Massari, Allium, and Dune analyzing on-chain metrics beyond vanity stats like TVL and active wallets. They emphasize use cases, repeatability, revenue, and contextual insights, with specific praise for Stellar's low TVL but high activity, composable RWAs with Centrifuge, and stablecoin volumes. The conversation critiques misleading metrics and explores AI's role in data analysis.

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).

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.

Stellar's Chief Product Officer Tomer Weller discusses the blockchain's evolution from cross-border payments to a booming DeFi ecosystem with smart contracts. Key highlights include partnerships like MoneyGram for on/off-ramps, recent Meridian conference announcements such as PayPal USD on Stellar, and a strong focus on advancing privacy solutions using cutting-edge cryptography. Stellar emphasizes real-world utility, financial inclusion, and metrics like transaction velocity over TVL.

Developer shares updates on small.xyz, a generative AI music project on Stellar, including a modified Comet pool with dynamic fees to enable fair token distribution and a new mixtapes feature for batch collecting tracks.

Cyberworld launches its Auction House, a fully decentralized marketplace built on Stellar that lets players trade in-game items for USDC, XLM, KEL, or other assets, bringing true ownership and real-world value to gaming economies.

Hack Meridian 2025 Shark Tank featured six finalist projects pitching innovations on Stellar: 4Bridge (donation investment platform), Simple Fund (receivable tokenization), Stellar Forge (smart contract deployment), Lance (freelance payments), Panoramablok (RWA DeFi integration), and StarLens (yield-generating accounts).

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.

Near Protocol's Dejan Radic presented Near Intents, an intent-driven cross-chain swap protocol that recently integrated Stellar. The system enables fast, low-cost cross-chain transactions through a market maker model, with Stellar seeing approximately 200k cumulative volume since integration on August 19th.

Stellar core developer discusses blockchain scalability through commutative APIs and parallel execution, presenting research on batch exchange markets and machine code smart contracts to enable orders of magnitude more on-chain computation without sacrificing decentralization.