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MoneyGram launched a non-custodial wallet enabling USDC transfers without fees, marking the next phase of its crypto integration strategy. Alex Bauer discusses how the wallet bridges fiat and crypto while maintaining regulatory compliance and banking relationships.

Panel discussion on Pluralist Grants frameworks for ecosystem funding. Speakers from Stellar Development Foundation, Gitcoin, and Aura explore how decentralized, multi-program grant structures can better serve diverse ecosystem needs compared to single monolithic programs, with examples from Arbitrum and Stellar.

Tyler Vanderhoeven demonstrates Zafeguard, a stateful policy signer service for Stellar smart wallets that enables sub-accounts to spend from a parent account under customizable spending limits, showcasing composable authentication and account abstraction on Soroban.

Scout, a static code analysis tool for Soroban smart contracts, has detected 28 issues and reached 5,000 downloads. The team plans to integrate LLMs to improve detection capabilities over the next six months.

Danelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar's mission to create equitable access to global financial services, emphasizing payments and asset issuance for underbanked populations. At Meridian conference in London, major announcements include Paxos launching USDL (yield-bearing stablecoin), MoneyGram's non-custodial wallet launch, and new partnerships with traditional financial institutions.

Yeli Badamozi (Nest Coin) and Guerra Kuwana (OnAfrique) discuss how blockchain and stablecoins are addressing Nigeria's currency crisis and enabling financial inclusion across Africa, LATAM, and Southeast Asia through on-chain neobanking and payment infrastructure.

Coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou discusses MasterCard's crypto credential network and Stellar-powered remittance solutions reducing Philippines remittance fees from 5-6% to under 1%, enabling instant cross-border payments through licensed exchange partnerships.

Circle's USDC secured the first EU stablecoin license under MiCA, staying listed while competitors delist. Dante Desparte and Candice Kelly discuss global regulatory frameworks, USDC adoption on Stellar for financial inclusion, and emerging harmonization across jurisdictions.

Lauren Thorbjørnsen, VP and Chief of Staff at the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses Stellar Meridian 2024 in London, highlighting the conference's 10-year anniversary theme of transformation, 800 expected attendees from 65 countries, and key sessions on financial inclusion, Soroban smart contracts, and emerging markets.

MoneyGram CEO discusses the company's integration with Stellar blockchain for cross-border remittances, explaining how stablecoins like USDC enable faster, cheaper transfers while maintaining fiat interoperability. The company is launching a non-custodial MoneyGram wallet and expanding crypto rails across markets.

Paxos announced it will launch its family of stablecoins, including dollar and gold stablecoins, on the Stellar network. CEO Charles Cascarella discussed how stablecoins democratize access to dollars and yield for unbanked populations globally.

Stripe is integrating Stellar into its payouts product and expanding crypto payments globally with USDC support in 150+ countries. Head of crypto John Egan discussed the company's return to crypto after six years, focusing on stablecoins as the practical use case for global commerce and financial inclusion.

Danelle Dixon, SDF Executive Director, discusses Stellar Meridian Conference highlights including USDL launch, wallet ecosystem growth across MoneyGram, Tala, and Decaf, and Soroban's path to billion-dollar TVL through real-world asset tokenization and traditional finance partnerships.

Speaker presents a boilerplate starter pack for the Easy A Stellar Hackathon (Oct 12, London), featuring a Soroban smart contract with key-value storage and a React dapp using the Stellar SDK. Also covers passkeys for passwordless authentication and the Anchor protocol for TradFi integration.

Tutorial on Blend Protocol, an over-collateralized lending platform on Stellar. Covers how the protocol works, testnet UI walkthrough, and how developers can build on top of it using Soroban smart contracts.

ClickPesa launches a DeFi debt fund on Stellar's Soroban to bridge the $421 billion financing gap for SMEs and women entrepreneurs in Africa, partnering with microfinance institutions to automate lending and expand capital access.

James Puccini demonstrates how to build passwordless smart wallets on Stellar using WebAuthn passkeys and Soroban contracts, enabling seamless biometric authentication without traditional wallet setup.

Cyberball Alpha released a new update with multiple login options including MetaMask and Freighter wallet integration, plus account import from Lightmeat.io. Alpha testing continues for one more week with community feedback welcome.

Alejo from Skyhitz demonstrated the platform's new smart contract launch on Stellar, enabling music NFT streaming with instant microtransactions, escrow-based revenue distribution, and email-based wallet authentication for seamless user onboarding.

Alejo Mendoza from SkyHits introduces a new smart contract platform for music NFTs on Stellar, enabling microtransactions for streams, downloads, and likes with revenue distributed to artists and investors via escrow mechanisms.

Developer demonstrates major smart wallet updates for Soroban including P256R1 and ED25519 signing curves, multi-signature support, and policies that restrict signer capabilities without requiring transaction pop-ups.

James Pacini, Stellar developer in residence, provides a comprehensive tutorial on building Rust-based smart contracts using the Soroban SDK, covering deployment, data types, testing, and creating a decentralized application to interact with contracts on the Stellar network.

ZK Cross Network launches Super Accounts on Stellar, enabling one-click bridging of liquidity from 100+ fiat currencies and blockchains to Stellar. The feature abstracts DeFi complexities like gas swapping and bridging through chain abstraction infrastructure.

Comet is a fuzzing and formal verification tool for Soroban smart contracts. The demo walks through testing a vaults contract using property-based testing, showing how to write test contracts that interact with target contracts and use the Comet CLI to run automated fuzzing on contract functions.