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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.

Beans, Blend, and DeFindex collaborate to enable non-custodial yield earning for everyday users. The integration abstracts DeFi complexity, allowing Beans users to earn 10x+ bank rates on stablecoins through automated Blend lending strategies without seeing gas fees or technical details.

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).

At the Meridian event, lightning talks feature Stellar ecosystem innovators. Ondo Finance announces USDY, their yield-bearing tokenized treasury, now live on Stellar. Etherfuse introduces Tesoro, a Brazilian stable bond offering high yield in local currency, and Credit discusses remittances and financial innovation in Africa.

XBid AI demonstrates its flexible plugin system for data injection, showing how Reflector oracles feed price data to the AI agent on Stellar. The system normalizes prices and exposes observables like slope and freshness for strategies to consume.

Esteban Iglesias from Paltolabs presents SourceSwap and DeFindex, two major DeFi protocols on Stellar. SourceSwap is a DEX aggregator that routes trades across multiple liquidity sources via smart contracts and APIs, while DeFindex enables wallets and fintech apps to offer yield-generating savings accounts through automated DeFi strategies.

A yield farming strategy tutorial demonstrating how to boost USDC yields from 16% to over 38% on Stellar by combining Blend lending, XLM borrowing, FxDAO collateralization, and looping cycles.

Near Protocol launches Intense cross-chain swaps on Stellar, enabling seamless native asset exchanges across 20+ chains without bridges. The integration went live August 19th and allows users to swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin, XRP, and other assets directly to XLM and USDC on Stellar with a single click.

Tutorial on earning passive income with XLM using FXDAO stablecoin minting and Blend Capital lending pools. Demonstrates strategies combining collateralized stablecoin generation with yield farming to generate 19-75% returns on deposited XLM.

Enzo and Fifro from Aha Labs discuss Moonlight, a non-custodial privacy protocol for Stellar, alongside David from LumenShade, which uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy pools. Both projects aim to enable private payments on Stellar while maintaining compliance with regulations.

Stellar Development Foundation reports strong Q2 2025 progress toward 10x growth goals: TVL reached $153M (rank 37 on DeFi Llama), PayPal's PYUSD launching on Stellar, RWAs at $496M yield-bearing assets, and Protocol 23 upgrade shipping in September with major scalability improvements.

Flipside Crypto launches incentivized quests on Stellar to onboard DeFi users. Complete tasks like swapping USDC for XLM, depositing into liquidity pools on Aquarius, and lending on Blend to earn rewards while experiencing Stellar's low-cost, fast transactions.

Tutorial on earning passive income on Stellar by combining Blend lending protocol with Aquarius liquidity rewards. Shows how to supply XLM to Blend, borrow stablecoins, and participate in high-yield Aquarius pools without selling your XLM holdings.

Guide to earning passive income on Stellar through Blend Capital lending pools and Y-assets, offering APY rates up to 66% on backstop deposits and daily compounding yields with minimal effort required.

Tutorial on earning money through Aquarius bribes on Stellar. The creator explains how to participate in liquidity voting, lock AQUA tokens for multiplied rewards (up to 8-10x boost), and delegate voting power. Shows personal earnings of 500+ AQUA per hour on a $2,800 investment, representing 160% annual returns.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.