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Litemint, a zero-commission NFT marketplace built on Stellar, launched in January with 1,800 artists. The platform leverages Stellar's native DEX for decentralized auction control and cross-currency bidding, supporting use cases from digital art to real estate tokenization.

Stellar's smart contract platform (Soroban/JumpCannon) is launching with testnet in late November and mainnet by end of year or early January. The team discussed SDK development, token contracts using EIP-2612 permits, and why they chose WebAssembly over EVM for better parallelism and developer experience.

Jake Urban, tech lead for partner engineering at SDF, discusses the recently launched MoneyGram Access integration that enables users to convert fiat cash to crypto at MoneyGram agents worldwide. He also introduces the Stellar Anchor Platform, a generalized solution that helps financial institutions integrate with Stellar standards.

Stellar protocol developers discuss Jump Cannon smart contracts implementation, focusing on contract event logging (CAP 51) and multi-dimensional fee models for compute, storage IO, and metadata (CAP 55), with debate over state expiration mechanisms.

Stellar protocol upgraded to version 19 with new transaction preconditions and signer types. The ecosystem discussed CAP 54, a comprehensive asset interoperability proposal for Jump Cannon smart contracts that enables classic Stellar assets to interoperate with smart contract tokens through a native token implementation with wrapping/unwrapping capabilities.

Stellar protocol developers discussed Jump Cannon smart contract upgrades, including CAPs 46-53. Key decisions: removing the Box type, renaming u63 to positive i64, merging contract code and data ledger entries, and defining the footprint type. Asset interoperability remains unresolved with debate over wrapping, representation, and classic asset integration.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing three CAPs for native smart contracts: CAP 53 on smart contract data storage with static footprints and deterministic scheduling, CAP 52 on minimal smart contract interactions shifting authorization to contracts, and CAP 47 on contract lifecycle including mutability and versioning questions.

Tori Samples from Leaf Global discusses building blockchain-based financial services for unbanked populations in East Africa, including feature phone support, NFT-based income for refugees, and upcoming smart contract integration for lending products.

Stellar Protocol meeting discussing Project Jump Cannon smart contracts. Focus on CAP 50 (transaction signing model), account architecture differences between classic and smart sides, and contract lifecycle parameters. Key debate over single-signer vs multi-sig account models and migration complexity.

Steve Walker from Task.io and Blue Marble discusses entrepreneurship, building sustainable blockchain businesses, and using NFTs and Stellar for real-world impact like carbon removal and community asset ownership.

Panel discussion on blockchain and stablecoins for cross-border payments in Colombia, featuring Stellar Development Foundation, UNCLAP, Finclusive, and CAF. Speakers explore how Stellar infrastructure can reduce remittance costs, enable financial inclusion, and support small business payments while emphasizing regulatory collaboration and financial education.

Stellar Protocol discussion on smart contract integration via Project Jump Cannon. Core focus: how to handle compliance and asset authorization when smart contracts interact with classic Stellar assets, particularly around clawback and frozen asset scenarios.

Panel discussion on blockchain-driven businesses in Latin America featuring leaders from RTM, Settle, Vibrant, and Cronos Pay. Speakers discuss financial inclusion, low-cost payments, stablecoins, and the Stellar ecosystem's role in democratizing access to financial services across the region.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an open protocol meeting to discuss Jump Cannon smart contract implementation. The team presented CAP 46-49, four core advancement proposals covering WebAssembly runtime, smart contract lifecycle, and two competing approaches (CAP 48 vs CAP 49) for classic asset interoperability with smart contracts.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts protocol meeting to discuss Project Jump Cannon, which brings WebAssembly-based smart contracts to Stellar. The team presents CAP 46, a foundational proposal defining the host/guest execution model and data structures for smart contract runtime.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2022 quarterly review covering network growth, roadmap updates, and major announcements including Project Jump Cannon smart contracts, Starbridge bridge to Ethereum, and $30M matching fund for early-stage companies.

Torsten Stuber, CTO of SatoshiPay and Pendulum, discusses building Pendulum as a standalone blockchain with smart contracts and Spacewalk, a decentralized bridge connecting Stellar to Polkadot parachains. The bridge uses collateralization to ensure security and launches on Kusama in Q3 2024.

Jake Urban from SDF discusses anchors and interoperability on Stellar, explaining how anchors bridge off-chain and on-chain value through standardized protocols (SEPs). He introduces the upcoming Stellar Anchor Platform, a language-agnostic service designed to simplify anchor deployment and reduce implementation barriers for businesses.

Tomer from SDF leads a new Tech Docs series discussing Starlight payment channels (1.5M TPS), Starbridge for blockchain interoperability, and early experiments with WASM runtimes for Project Jump Cannon smart contracts.

Louisa from Stellar Development Foundation's BD partnerships team discusses key ecosystem partnerships including Coinbase, Fireblocks, and OKCoin, and explains the strategy to expand Stellar's utility beyond payments into DeFi and tokenized assets.

At South by Southwest, Stellar Development Foundation's Anka discusses major initiatives including the DFS Labs fintech bootcamp for Africa, the Stellar Community Fund (SCF) grant program distributing 12 million lumens annually, and a Stellar NFT hackathon combining art and technology.

SDF and DFS Lab hosted a panel discussion featuring five African fintech startups from their blockchain bootcamp, discussing their growth, challenges, and advice for future participants. Companies like Stacks, Phone Bank, Bonafide, Quidro, and Honey Coin shared how the bootcamp accelerated their development and helped them raise significant funding.

Justin Rice, head of ecosystems at SDF, discusses Stellar's protocol upgrade process, recent features like asset clawback and AMMs, and upcoming changes including payment channels and dynamic fee management at South by Southwest.

Stellar Development Foundation's enterprise marketing lead Ben Grossman discusses SDF's first sponsorship of South by Southwest, a 6 billion Lumen marketing grant program for ecosystem companies, and how the foundation supports builders globally across remittances, payments, and other use cases.