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The Stellar Developers Meeting introduces Raven, an AI assistant for builders navigating the Stellar ecosystem. Kaan from SDF and Themes from Guava Global discuss how Raven helps with documentation, context, and checking what's already been built. The meeting covers Hack Meridian details: a two-track hackathon (Oct 25-26 in Lisbon) with workshops and mentorship, plus 20+ activation events across European cities.

SDF's Sean Lippincott explains InstaAwards: $1k-$5k grants for early-stage builders in ambassador chapters working on 30-day sprints. The program scales to $15k total across three rounds. Funds prototyping and infrastructure costs, not marketing or user incentives.

Hack Meridian (Oct 25-26, Lisbon) is Stellar's two-day hackathon with mentorship, office hours, and prizes. Two tracks: Genesis for new builders with ideas, Scale for lifting existing projects. 20+ European regional events running now to prepare.

Stellar developer meeting featuring Nethermind on the Stellar Private Payment System: live Q&A with cryptographer Antonio Arriba covering privacy architecture, zero-knowledge proof design, compliance rules via association sets, and how SPP compares to other privacy solutions.

Nethermind on building private, compliant payments for Stellar. The Stellar Private Payment System (SPP) allows users to transact privately while pool operators maintain configurable compliance controls for regulators. Built on Soroban with ZK verifiers for Noir and RISK-Zero proof systems.

The Stellar Journey to Mastery program wrapped its initial 6-month run with a demo day showcasing 10+ builders who shipped live products to mainnet. The belt-based progression system, which scaled from 5,000 applicants to 4,849 active participants across 32 countries, proved extended support produces shipped goods—not abandoned hackathon projects.

Kaan shares his journey from law degree to Web3 developer advocate at Stellar Development Foundation. After years in legal practice, he discovered blockchain's pace was a better fit. Now at SDF following Risein bootcamp, he encourages others to make the transition.

Turkish blockchain educator Aybars discusses his career path from founding blockchain education initiatives to becoming a Stellar ambassador and AI identity builder. He shares insights on ecosystem support mechanisms and his vision for scaling AI agents in e-commerce on Stellar mainnet.

Bento is a security layer for AI agents accessing DeFi yield on Stellar. Co-founder Trey discusses how the platform helps agents safely navigate Stellar's fragmented DeFi protocols and real-world asset opportunities, leveraging behavior-based security to prevent unauthorized transactions. A serial hackathon winner, Bento previously shipped on Solana but sees Stellar's regulated stablecoin infrastructure as the ideal foundation for agent-powered payments.

Stellar Developers Meeting focuses on confidential token transfers. SDF's Frontier Labs team (Khan, Brie Wild) demonstrates Who Ate Gerald, a social deduction game built to teach privacy mechanics on testnet. OpenZeppelin built the circuits and Noir proofs; Nethermind built the ultra-honk ZK verifier.

Stellar Private Payments developer preview is live on testnet via Nethermind. The zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses using Groth16 proofs. Web and Rust SDKs, a CLI tool, and demo app are available for developers.

Stellar Private Payments is available on testnet as a developer preview. Built by Nethermind, it's a zero-knowledge privacy pool protocol that breaks the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses while maintaining compliance readiness. Web and Rust SDKs are live.