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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SDF hosted a webinar on Central Bank Digital Currencies covering policy and technical considerations. Panelists from BIS, Alliance for Financial Inclusion, Atlantic Council, and BIT discussed CBDC adoption trends, financial inclusion goals, and implementation challenges across retail and wholesale use cases.

Enterprise leaders from Finclusive, AirTM, and Bitso discuss regulatory trends, liquidity gaps, and use cases for blockchain payments in Latin America and emerging markets at Meridian Conference.

Ada Vaughn from the Stellar Development Foundation explains how Stellar enables financial inclusion through tokenization, asset issuance, wallets, and cross-border payments. She covers use cases including NFTs, securities trading, stablecoins, CBDCs, and remittances, highlighting partnerships with companies like MoneyGram, D-Stock, and RealtyBits.

A panel debate on stablecoins versus CBDCs featuring experts from Circle, Stablecorp, BIT, and the Atlantic Council, exploring financial inclusion, privacy, regulation, and whether both can coexist in the digital currency ecosystem.

MoneyGram and Stellar Development Foundation announced a live pilot enabling cash-in and cash-out of USDC through MoneyGram's 200+ country agent network, with plans to expand to multiple wallets in 2022.

SDF's Q3 2021 quarterly call covered major developments including a $40M investment in Tala, MoneyGram partnership for cash-in/cash-out via Stellar, Protocol 18 AMM upgrade, and 148% year-over-year growth in network payments.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an ecosystem panel on fintech in Africa featuring leaders from Chipper Cash, DFS Lab, ClickPesa, and Leaf Global. Panelists discussed building blockchain-based financial services, navigating fragmented regulatory landscapes, and the critical need for interoperability across African fintech platforms.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Danelle Dixon leads a panel discussion on diversity and inclusion in fintech and tech, featuring leaders from Dropbox, Avantis Consulting, and the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain. Panelists discuss barriers to diversity, the business case for inclusion, and actionable steps for building more representative organizations.

Dr. Jim Kim, former World Bank president, discusses how blockchain and Stellar can address global challenges like financial inclusion, remittances, and poverty reduction. He shares insights on global governance, policy-making, and the importance of engaging multilateral institutions to advance blockchain adoption.

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discusses financial inclusion, digital payments, and blockchain technology's role in addressing global inequities. She emphasizes the need for inclusive financial architecture, mobile money adoption, and inter-African payment systems to enable sustainable growth.

SDF's Q1 2021 quarterly call covered major milestones including Stellar USDC launch, three enterprise fund investments totaling $6.5M, Horizon 2.0 release, and significant network growth with 160% increase in payments and 2,798% growth in relevant asset transactions.

LightNet and Interstellar announced a partnership leveraging Stellar to enable fast, low-cost remittances across Asia Pacific. Backed by major conglomerates including CP Group and Seven Bank, the network connects 40,000+ convenience stores and 5 million agents to serve unbanked populations and reduce remittance costs from 6% to under 1%.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, discusses Solid, a decentralized protocol for data ownership and control. He draws parallels between early web principles and current blockchain/Stellar efforts, emphasizing the importance of open standards, user agency, and avoiding centralization.

Panel discussion on tokenization and financial democratization featuring executives from Securrency, eStock, and WisdomTree. Speakers explore how blockchain-based tokenized securities can expand global access to financial markets, reduce costs, and enable compliance at scale while addressing regulatory challenges.

Danelle Dixon, SDF CEO, showcased how Stellar-built companies are solving real-world financial inclusion problems across Africa, Latin America, and the US-Mexico border through remittances, cross-border payments, and access to global markets.

Howard Chen from SDF presents Vibrant, a non-custodial wallet built on Stellar for Argentina that uses protocol 13 and 15 features like fee sponsorship and sponsored reserves to eliminate user friction around transaction fees and minimum balances.

SDF COO Jason Chilpala moderates a panel discussion with IMF senior financial expert John Kiff and EmTech CEO Carmel Kadett on how central bank digital currencies and stablecoins can coexist, exploring CBDC design, programmable money use cases, and financial inclusion opportunities.

Stellar Development Foundation concludes 2020 virtual Meridian conference, highlighting 2 billion network operations, 25 live anchors, and 2021 priorities including DEX liquidity improvements, a private sidechain, and expanded anchor partnerships to drive financial inclusion.

Stellar Development Foundation board members discuss network effects as a growth model, exploring how blockchain and open networks can achieve critical mass for adoption, particularly in emerging markets and financial inclusion.