“The goal is to be customer focused.” @_therealjosh on the principle @anthonysoohoo pushes every day, and why our long-standing partnership with @StellarOrg naturally led to expanding across @solana and @tempo to meet customers where they are. From The Future of Money Podcast with @HenriArslanian 👇

SCF #45 is in: 40 projects funded, ~$4.04M in XLM Confidential finance, RWA tokenization, cross-border payments, and agentic payments tooling, with builders like ZKELLA, Astrolabe, @pollar_xyz , Sorted, BWB, Rail402 and more. medium.com/stellar-community…

In this article, I explain the design choices behind our confidential token work at @OpenZeppelin and how this architecture addresses the practical needs of stablecoin issuers. ⤵️ ⤵️

Lebo pride! I feel like someone like @mcuban might be interested. For years, blockchain hasn’t produced enough applications that are materially better than what existed before. I think something changed. It’s not about crypto - it’s about financial infrastructure. Banks are issuing money on public chains, @Visa transactions are settling in stablecoins, and regulated securities are becoming programmable. That’s what’s happening on @StellarOrg . Here’s sample of some of the exciting things that have happened on Stellar lately: @BVNKFinance , a payments company now owned by @Mastercard , plugged into Stellar. Now a business can now pay suppliers or staff in 130+ markets using digital dollars, without having to stitch together a different system for every country. @usbank sent its own digital dollar across borders between North America and Europe on Stellar. It’s a sign that one of America’s biggest banks sees blockchain as a way to move money internationally in seconds, while keeping the safeguards customers expect. Nuvanté built a prototype that links Stellar to the @bankofengland core settlement system. It points to a future where digital dollars can be as safe and final as money moving between banks today. @tether ‘s digital dollar @USDT0_to , the most widely used one in the world, is now live on Stellar. It means more people can hold and send dollars on the network, which matters most in places where the local currency is unstable. And @MoneyGram launched a Stellar powered Visa card in Colombia. If your family sends you money from abroad, you no longer have to stand in line to pick up cash. It lands in your app as digital dollars, and you can spend it anywhere Visa is accepted with a tap of your phone. Businesses, banks, central banks, and everyday people are all getting better access to the same financial system. That’s the whole point of what we are building, and it’s all here.

I don't think you understand just how unbelievably busy the @StellarOrg network is moving real value every single second of every single day. machine.stellar.buzz/

Rewards on the public Merkl campaign for Stellar earnXLM and earnUSDC will now be distributed much more frequently. Thank you to @merkl_xyz for their responsiveness and expertise in making this happen. Merkl now automatically detects settlement events on the vaults and, at each settlement, distributes the top-up based on the performance shortfall needed to reach the target APR.

Trustless Work V2 is live in beta on Stellar Testnet! - Multi-party roles - Quorum approvals - Better disputes - Batch operations. New contracts. New Core API. React + JS SDKs. New Indexer! Get an API key in the BackOffice, try the Lab, then build with the SDK or API. This is a beta. We want you to break it. Learn More: 👇 trustlesswork.com/escrow-tim…

Gotta get wlad in there!

a lil teaser to SDF DevRel's new sitcom: DevReality. featuring @0xkaankacar @kalepail @ElliotFriend full episode coming soon.

Pix meets @StellarOrg. 🇧🇷 Pods is now enabling Pix → Stellar, connecting Brazil’s instant payment rails directly to one of the world’s leading blockchain networks. This integration makes it easier for wallets, fintechs, and neobanks to move users from BRL into onchain financial products with a seamless experience. Local rails. Global infrastructure. One integration. Another step toward making onchain finance invisible to the end user. Get access: pods.finance/products/ramp

Build faster on Stellar with AI. 🤖 Tomorrow we start our four part Stellar Developer Session series with the SDF Developer Team: Raven × @BuildOnStellar. See a live prompt demo, learn to build and debug with AI, and get your setup ready for #HackMeridian2026 Register below ↓

Spectra is now live on Stellar with several markets facilitated by the orderbook! Spectra is the first yield tokenization protocol on the Stellar network. It can support a wide range of assets issued on Stellar, from the popular ones to the expanding RWA sector. One of the first markets is deJTRSY, the Janus Henderson treasury fund tokenized by @centrifuge. The order book underpins this deployment, bringing efficiency to the Spectra protocol and positioning it for further growth, no longer bound to the AMM Curve. One can post a limit order straight from a wallet at whatever rate they want, and it just sits there until someone takes it. No price impact at any size and nothing gets locked up while the order rests in the book. market creation becomes much easier with the OB in place. RWAs are a big part of Stellar's direction, with @The_DTCC connecting its tokenization service to the network next year. Fixed-term markets fit that direction. Great to see Spectra positioned for this

Spectra is now live on @StellarOrg → app.spectra.finance/stellar Trade PT and YT through an order book from day one. First markets seeded by @GamiLabs, including deJTRSY, the Janus Henderson treasury fund tokenized by @centrifuge. New use cases for the Stellar community ↓

🌟 The first Stellar Community Growth QF Project Showcase is happening today! @BuildOnStellar is hosting the Space, with projects from the round joining to share what they’re planning for November. Come meet the teams, hear their ideas, and find projects you want to support. Set your reminder 👇 nitter.net/i/spaces/1aJbdEPMWkXKX…

NEW: @BVNKFinance integrates @StellarOrg into its stablecoin payments platform as a rail for cross-border payments, merchant payouts, and treasury disbursements. Raja Chakrabarti (@rajachak75), Chief Business Officer at Stellar Development Foundation, described on @_TalkingTokens the issue that onchain payments are trying to solve: "The cost on a remittance traditionally has been upwards of 10% or more. There's this whole correspondent banking network, and at each and every place there's a toll that's taken. There's friction, there's timing, all these different issues. And that cost structure and that friction structure hits the most vulnerable people where it hurts the most."

HackMeridian 101 Livestream nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1yJAPwNyl…

On the @redstone_defi podcast, @rajachak75 says tokenizing an asset is the easy part. Distribution, secondary liquidity, privacy, and a risk framework institutions trust are what's still missing, even with $4B in RWAs on the network. piped.video/watch?v=sU--FZal…

Stellar is now part of @BVNKFinance's stablecoin infrastructure. $39B in annualized volume meets a network that cleared $55.6B in payments last year. bvnk.com/press/bvnk-expands-…

Stellartember hits keep hitting. Enjoyed this chat with our friends over at @redstone_defi . Come check it out! @StellarOrg