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New guest piece from @DrBones67, a long-time voice on Stellar RWAs. His argument: Stellar was running the tokenization playbook a decade before the industry had the vocabulary for it: lumenloop.com/research/stell…

YLDS, a yield-bearing digital dollar from @figure, is now available on @CopperHQ's institutional custody platform with Stellar settlement. copper.co/en/insights/co…

Threat modeling identifies what could go wrong with your smart contract. Continuous monitoring keeps watch when it's live. @StellarOrg's guide: why onchain monitoring is essential for builders. stellar.org/blog/developer…

Introducing Arcane Pay. Arcane Pay enables private payments on @StellarOrg. Claim test funds and send them to your contacts. Now available on Testnet ⇩

🏁 That's a wrap on Stellar Hacks: Real-World ZK! 678 builders registered, 380+ projects submitted. Live circuits, on-chain verifiers, and real working demos taking ZK from whitepaper to production on Stellar. After some very tough judging, here are your winners 👇

@EtherfuseDave The future of finance never looked so good.

Onramping the world

SDF is joining the x402 Foundation as a Premier member 🤝 The @linuxfoundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation, an open-governance body stewarding x402, the open standard for internet-native payments over HTTP. 🧵for more info. stellar.org/x402

TUSST started as a gamified way to learn Rust → Soroban on @StellarOrg. It now ships Forge: a full in-browser IDE. Write, test and deploy contracts with zero setup. Open source power. Link: tusst.xyz Demo 👇

x402 Foundation launches with 40 member organizations, including @StellarOrg, to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents. linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-fo…

Another day not finding what I wanted, another day @BuildOnStellar it myself 😎 A tool to visualize all your wallets at once with some nice perks like an interactive graph and even something fun with a mapping to know constellation 😝 skychart.dev

Where that leaves Stellar today: $3.01B in RWA value across 70 products ~19,290 holders, up 14% in 30 days $5.53B in 30-day stablecoin transfer volume 95% of BENJI holders still on Stellar

The receipts: 2015: anchors moving fiat-backed value across borders 2017: IBM World Wire, bank-issued tokens 2021: @FTI_US' BENJI, the first regulated fund to use a public chain as its system of record 2026: DTCC picks Stellar

New guest piece from @DrBones67, a long-time voice on Stellar RWAs. His argument: Stellar was running the tokenization playbook a decade before the industry had the vocabulary for it: lumenloop.com/research/stell…

Contributing to the security of @StellarOrg takes a “village” and we’re proud to play a small role across different formats. Here's how it's been playing out lately: • Our auditors were engaged on 4 Soroban reviews at one point in June, spanning a variety of Stellar projects. • One of these audits lead to an investigation of small optimizations within the Rust SDK for developing Soroban contracts. These are now part of Zipper, the newest Stellar protocol upgrade! • We continued building an interactive, breakpoint-style WebAssembly debugger for the Stellar ecosystem, grounded in formal semantics. We’ve now entered into the last milestone (3/3) for the SCF #41 award that makes this possible. • The first steps in organizing highly-interactive initiatives for the @BuildOnStellar community are under way. We believe security starts before any line of code is even typed. Finally, we’re looking forward to the 2026 edition of Meridian later this year and already brainstorming another fun event for everyone coming to Lisbon 🇵🇹 Stay tuned!

To gain exposure to real-world payments and newly expanded DeFi ecosystem, have a look at $XLM. @StellarOrg and @BuildOnStellar have been helping build an ecosystem that focuses on practical applications for tokenized RWAs. Now supported with trade and custody.

Monday metrics 🧪📊 blend.capital

Here's the upcoming shows this week on Rise Up! On Wednesday we will be joined by friend of the show @tomerweller of @StellarOrg in the morning. Then tune back in the evening where we'll be joined by fellow creator Adrian Mancino for Rise Up After Dark! (All shows will be cancelled Monday and Tuesday)

50+ Vietnam projects have joined the APAC Stellar Hackathon. The response from our builders has been strong. Submissions stay open until July 15, and we are ready to welcome more quality teams into the program. Get your entry in, then see you at Demo Day on the 18th!🫵

The smart account kit has also been updated and refreshed to 0.4.x. Lots of big juicy updates from @OpenZeppelin and @BuildOnStellar's Zipper protocol release. Go get it! github.com/kalepail/smart…

Vietnam Chapter is live on the official Stellar Ambassador Program. From now on, we are going all in on finding builders who represent our values and culture, and who can help us onboard more Vietnamese to Stellar. And if you are coming to the Hackathon Demo Day, take a look beforehand. It just might come in useful. 😉