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Make some noise for the ecosystem 👏 Here’s what y’all got up to this week ⬇️

SCF Public Goods Award Q2 proposals are live. Join the open office hour tomorrow at 9am ET to discuss, ask questions, or show support for current votes. luma.com/qtes73oh

MoneyGram 🤝 @StellarOrg We’re extending our five-year partnership with SDF, continuing to turn stablecoin potential into real-world utility and financial inclusion. Building on our success in Colombia, the MoneyGram app’s stablecoin balance is now live in El Salvador. Read more: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Much respect to the OG @AquariusDeFi team that keeps pushing the envelope on what's possible on Stellar.

Generate secure smart contracts in Solidity, Cairo, and Stellar from your terminal, with zero setup. That's the promise of Contracts CLI, @openzeppelin's new command-line tool built for developers and AI agents. openzeppelin.com/news/introduci…

Mastering Threat Modeling on Stellar: A Step-by-Step Security Blueprint for Soroban Smart Contracts x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

.@Certora's guide walks Stellar builders through audit prep: define invariants, threat model with STRIDE, write verification-friendly Rust, fuzz test, run static analysis, then submit with full documentation to the Stellar Community Fund's Audit Bank. certora.com/blog/roadmap-t…

.@K2_Lend's @code4rena audit competition is live. K2 is an upcoming lending protocol on Stellar featuring pooled, isolated, and gated lending markets. 40-day competition, with the biggest prizes for the most unique and severe vulnerabilities found.

Talking Reflector V3 tomorrow at the @StellarGlobal_ Town Hall. What's new, what's coming, and the use cases it unlocks across Stellar. See you there: 4PM ET ⏰ discord.gg/VTPymHQX?event…

March had a lot going on. Catch the Monthly Recap this Friday @ 10 AM PT. @lumenloop runs through all the highlights from the Stellar ecosystem. Set your reminders! x.com/i/spaces/1AxRn…

Just over a week left to participate in the Stellar Agentic Hackathon. x402, MPP, AI Oh my! ⏰ Submission due Monday April 13th. dorahacks.io/hackathon/stel…

Agentic Hackathon Office Hours | Tuesday, 1PM PT. Pull up with your questions for @Must_be_Ash from @CoinbaseDev and @0ceans404 from @StellarOrg Set your reminder 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1mGPa…

Glad to contribute to @dynamic_xyz's Agentic Finance & Stablecoins Report. TL;DR - agentic finance is as good as the payment rails underneath it. With x402 on @Stellar, payments are instant, low-cost, and embedded directly into the application flow. Agents can discover services, transact, and settle value within the same execution loop where decisions are made. Open, permissionless rails. Any participant can build on them. Go build on open chains. Build on Stellar.

.@wirexapp with @ultrastellar launch native payment infrastructure on Stellar, combining global payment rails with Stellar-native capabilities. Includes stablecoin bank accounts, card issuance at 80M merchants, and up to 6% APY yield. wirexapp.com/post/wirex-and…

Stanford study of 41M USDC transactions on Stellar shows stablecoins already crushing G20's 2030 payment goals. 96% settled in under an hour; 42% were under $10. The future of payments isn't coming, it's here. x.com/DenelleDixon/s…

Stellar's connecting AI agents to payments. April 2 in Rio: learn how autonomous agents transact on-chain, then build for the Stellar Agentic Hackathon on Dorahacks. @Stellar_Brazil luma.com/s4uxvygq

1/ 🏛️ Major RWA Expansion Live on Stellar! Templar just added 6 new real-world assets to lending markets on Stellar, spanning tokenized treasuries, investment-grade debt assets, and Bitcoin-backed collateral. @StellarOrg