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The Stellar Developer Meeting features the OpenSapplin team presenting Q4 2025 library releases: WAD for high-precision decimal arithmetic in Soroban smart contracts, fee abstraction for paying transaction fees with tokens like USDC instead of XLM, and the timelock module as the start of a governance package. These tools enhance developer experience, enable smart account functionality via relayers, and improve contract governance transparency and safety. The team highlights ongoing momentum and community adoption.

Stellar protocol meeting discusses CAP80, adding performance-optimized host functions for ZK proofs on Soroban, and CAP73, enabling Soroban to create new G accounts for XLM transfers and introduce an explicit allowTrust function for trustlines. Additional announcement to deprecate unused getLedger host functions. Key focus on improving developer experience and Soroban-classic operations parity.

Step-by-step tutorial on setting up Freighter wallet, activating it with XLM, and exploring Stellar dApps like ZoroSwap for token swaps and asset management.

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.

OpenZeppelin releases smart account libraries for Stellar smart contracts, enabling programmable authorization systems with context rules, signers, and policies. The demo showcases USDC payments, forex swaps, and multisig treasury operations.

A technical walkthrough of an auto-compounding USDC vault built on Stellar using Blend Protocol, OpenZeppelin vault libraries, and Comet DEX. The vault automatically claims BLND rewards, swaps them to USDC, and reinvests them for users.

Developer builds a selective disclosure KYC system using zero-knowledge proofs and BLS ring signatures on Stellar Soroban. Users can prove attributes like residency or age without revealing full identity, with credentials verified on-chain while personal data stays off-chain.

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.

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.

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.

Joaquín Farfán leads a hands-on workshop deploying a smart contract on Stellar's testnet using Soroban and Rust, demonstrating how developers can build financial applications with real-world impact in Latin America.

At the Zama CoFHE Shop, the Stellar Development Foundation and Predicate discussed the emerging balance between privacy, compliance, and auditability on blockchains. SDF's Chief Product Officer Tomer argued that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to privacy. Instead, Stellar is building the cryptographic primitives so developers can layer whatever privacy solutions their use cases require. Predicate's head of business development emphasized that privacy and compliance evolve together, not sequentially. Key blockers to adoption include the lack of user-friendly products and regulatory uncertainty. SDF announced Protocol 25 X-Ray, bringing cryptographic building blocks (pairing-friendly elliptic curves, Poseidon hash functions) to Stellar, along with integrations for Noir, a zero-knowledge DSL, and RISC-Zero verifiers. SDF is collaborating with Nethermind on Stellar Private Payments, a privacy-preserving protocol based on Privacy Pools research, and shipping a confidential tokens implementation. The consensus: the cryptographic infrastructure is ready; the market needs better products and regulatory clarity.

BrightTech released Stellar Wallet Kit v2, the popular SDK for integrating Stellar wallets into frontend applications. The video demonstrates setup, wallet connection, and transaction signing in both React and Vanilla JS with live examples.

OpenZeppelin presents new Stellar smart contract libraries including a smart account framework for passkey-based authorization, an ERC-4626 compatible token vault, and real-world asset (RWA) contracts with identity and compliance modules.

OpenZeppelin presents their managed Stellar Relayer service with a channels plugin for parallel transaction processing. The service enables gasless, high-throughput transactions on Stellar with automatic fee bumping and sequence number management.

Developer builds open-source Rust tool for efficient Stellar data access, combining RPC nodes and public data lake queries with REST API and command-line interfaces.

Pam and Willem from AHA Company introduce the Stellar Registry and Registry CLI, a package manager for Soroban smart contracts that enables human-readable naming, versioning, and simplified contract deployment and upgrades on Stellar.

OpenZeppelin's UI Builder tool for Stellar enables developers to quickly create interactive frontends for smart contracts on Stellar Mainnet and Testnet without extensive coding, featuring React components, form customization, and export capabilities.

Scaffold Stellar tutorial covering smart contract development on Stellar, including project setup, the guess-the-number contract walkthrough, and improvements like moving random number generation to the constructor and better error handling.

Tutorial on creating and distributing tokens on Stellar using Merkle trees for efficient airdrop verification. Demonstrates building a token contract with claim functionality, using Soroban smart contracts and a React frontend.

Tomer, SDF Chief Product Officer, outlines Stellar's privacy strategy combining blockchain transparency with user privacy through opt-in, configurable solutions. SDF is funding privacy projects, building ZK infrastructure, and developing confidential token and private payment protocols with partners like Nethermind.

Tyler from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses how AI fundamentally changes software development economics and why Stellar is uniquely positioned to secure an AI-driven future through cryptographic safeguards and zero-knowledge proofs.

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).