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Balanced, a cross-chain DEX and stablecoin protocol, has launched on Stellar. The platform enables swaps across 12 blockchains, minting of the BNUSD stablecoin backed by 18+ assets, and borrowing at 2% annual rates with savings yields over 15%.

Tomer, head of product at Stellar, discusses 2025 as the year of adoption where TradFi meets DeFi. He highlights Stellar's focus on real-world utility, the launch of Soroban smart contracts, and the intersection of DeFi with cash access through interoperable on and off ramps.

Comprehensive overview of Stellar and XLM covering the project's history, founders Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim, core mission of financial inclusion, consensus protocol, tokenomics with 50 billion fixed supply, and key use cases including cross-border payments, remittances, and asset tokenization.

Tutorial on building a lending protocol smart contract on Soroban using Reflector Oracle to verify collateral values and access real-time price data from on-chain sources.

Battle Nexus is a new UI feature released with Alpha 16 that allows players to follow tournaments live, manage arena decks, and collect prizes in one place with simplified bracket tracking and battle initiation.

Palta Labs demonstrated the Trustless Portfolio Manager, a smart contract that automatically rebalances crypto portfolios using Reflector Oracles and DeFindex vaults. The system enables users to maintain balanced positions like 50% XLM and 50% XRP without manual intervention or centralized management.

Speaker proposes tokenizing real estate on Stellar to solve industry problems like fraud, illiquidity, and lack of transparency. Real estate tokenization could enable fractional ownership, reduce fees, and unlock a $16 trillion market by 2030.

Raph and Jerome discuss their trip to Prague for Stellar's marketing event and the Emergence conference, covering event experiences, Blend V2 updates with flash loans and wallet integrations, the Balance cross-chain protocol launch, and ecosystem opportunities including the Reflector dev competition.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering boilerplate setup, testing with ledger snapshots, and building a predictive market contract using oracle data.

Script3 launched Blend Capital, a lending protocol primitive on Stellar's Soroban that enables customizable lending pools with algorithmic interest rates and mandatory insurance. The protocol has 5.5M TVL and is attracting integrations from wallets and real-world asset projects.

Chris Anataglio from Stellar Development Foundation presents FutureStack, demonstrating how passkeys and smart contract wallets simplify Web3 onboarding. The passkeys kit SDK enables developers to implement passwordless authentication using biometrics, eliminating seed phrase friction for consumer adoption.

Tomas from Cyclo Labs discusses Mercury, a Soroban-focused data indexing service, and Cyclones flash loan protocol at Stellar Meridian 2024. He explains how Mercury indexes on-chain data for DeFi applications and addresses liquidity challenges on Soroban while highlighting Stellar's technical advantages.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the sequel to Lightmeat.io, a casual trading card game on Stellar that now leverages Soroban smart contracts for asset management, multiple currencies, and seamless onboarding for non-crypto users via passkeys and social logins.

Fred from Litemint discusses Cyberbrawl, the smart contract-powered sequel to Lightmeat.io. The casual trading card game leverages Soroban for asset management, introduces new mechanics like overclock and crafting currencies, and launches a beta tournament next month with monthly seasons and full battle replays.

Panel discussion at DuneCon exploring TVL as a metric for blockchain adoption. Speakers from Stellar, Dune, Mantle, and Safe debate whether TVL remains the best measure of ecosystem health or if alternatives like adoption metrics, transfer volumes, and daily active users better reflect real-world impact.

Educational tutorial on Stellar accounts covering account structure, creation using the JavaScript SDK, Stellar Lab tools, and completing Stellar Quest challenges.

Tutorial on three ways to grow XLM holdings on Stellar without staking: depositing in Blend Capital for emissions, earning rewards through Aquarius AMM and SDX pools, and participating in Phinex DeFi Hub liquidity pools. Bonus strategy involves using FxDAO vaults to mint stablecoins and leverage cross-protocol integrations.

Tutorial on authentication in Soroban smart contracts, covering require_auth and require_auth_for_args functions for verifying transaction authorization, plus testing methods using mock_auth and mock_all_auth utilities.

Developer walkthrough of Stellar smart wallet implementation using Soroban, covering passkey signers, policy-based access control, and stateful contract patterns for secure multi-sig account management.

SDF platform team showcased five hackathon projects built on the Composable Data Platform, demonstrating faster, cheaper alternatives to Horizon for trade aggregations, fraud detection, contract indexing, browser-based ingestion, and validator analytics.

Developer demonstrates launching fireworks using Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, with a Node.js controller listening for blockchain events and triggering an Arduino-controlled arc igniter. Showcases Web3's potential to replace cloud services for IoT applications.

The Give Hub, a Stellar blockchain-based crowdfunding app, is empowering unbanked communities in Latin America and Africa by funding schools, clean water systems, healthcare, and microloans. Blockchain transparency ensures donations reach their intended impact.

Stellar Development Foundation held its Q3 2024 quarterly webinar, highlighting 9 million network addresses, $606 million in real-world assets, $4.9 billion in total volume, and major partnerships with Stripe, MasterCard, and Paxos announced at Meridian conference.

Actor Idris Elba discusses financial inclusion and creative empowerment in Africa with Stellar leadership, exploring how blockchain tools can help African filmmakers and creators access financing, distribution, and ownership opportunities.