Meridian 2021
who it's for
blockchain protocol engineers, payments engineers, fintech product managers, crypto compliance officers, venture investors and enterprise partners, ecosystem and community managers, exchange and wallet integrators
topics
Protocol 18 in-protocol AMMs; USDC on Stellar integration; MoneyGram cash in/cash out pilot; Horizon 2.0 API performance; anchor onboarding tooling (anchor-in-a-box); liquidity pools, TVL and AMM analytics; SpeedX parallel batch exchange design; CBDC pilots and national regulation; validator outage and network resilience; community grant programs (Stellar Community Fund); trust-minimized bridges and sidechain proposals
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How the Stellar Network Grew | Candace Kelly, David Mazières, Denelle Dixon, Karen Chang, Tomer Weller | 35m |
2021 on Stellar centers on concrete wins: Circle’s stellar usdc goes live and sparks integrations (exchanges, wallets, MoneyGram pilot for near‑instant… | ||
| Bridging Digital Assets and Local Currencies | Alex Holmes, Denelle Dixon, Lin-Hua Wu | 35m |
MoneyGram and Stellar connect wallets to MoneyGram’s retail agent network so cash converts to USDC and back; a pilot is live using the Lobster wallet with… | ||
| The Global Impact of Strategic Investors | Amr Shady, Ioannis Giannaros, Andrea Lo, Shivani Siroya | 39m |
Stellar’s Enterprise Fund funds Tribal Credit, Wyre, Inc., and Tala and helps them co-create product roadmaps and run joint project plans that turn blockchain… | ||
| Investing in the Stellar Community’s Vision | Anke Liu, Frederic Kyung-jin Rezeau, Markus Paulson-Luna, Tori Samples | 41m |
Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open, community‑voted grant program that has awarded over 350 projects and distributed more than 100 million XLM to… | ||
| Liquidity: AMMs on Stellar | Justin Rice, Phil Meng, Dima Gmyza | 32m |
Stellar deploys AMMs at the protocol level with Protocol 18 enabling path payment smart routing between order books and AMM pools, producing over 1,500 pools… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Denelle Dixon, Jed McCaleb | 30m |
USDC is live on Stellar and already easing cross-border flows, AMMs land on the network (launched two weeks ago) to boost liquidity, and a MoneyGram pilot is… | ||
| National Approaches to Regulation | Seth Hertlein, Kristin Smith, Erik Bethel, Olayinka David-West, Oleksandr Bornyakov | 46m |
Ukraine passes virtual‑assets law with 267 parliamentary votes and builds a multi‑stakeholder sandbox; El Salvador legalizes bitcoin, rolls out the Chivo… | ||
| Public and Private Digital Currencies | Alex McDougall, Dante Disparte, Josh Lipsky, Simon Chantry, Candace Kelly | 46m |
Private stablecoins process nearly $3 trillion in H1 2021 and projects like USDC claim one-to-one backing with cash and short-term treasuries while Stablecorp… | ||
| Growth of Stellar What Happens Next | Patrick Campos, Meinhard Benn, Mary Saracco, Boris Reznikov, Seth Melamed | 48m |
Stellar upgrades to Protocol 18 native AMMs on Nov 3, so liquidity pools sit in-protocol alongside the DEX and require no smart contracts; Pendulum raises $5M… | ||
| Crystal Ball Predictions | Amit Sharma, Santiago Alvarado, Matthew Castricone, Ruben Galindo Steckel, Lisa Nestor | 47m |
Predicts regulators shift from labels to actions with sector-driven guidance and activity-based rules, plus privacy credentials and inclusion mandates; names… | ||
| Stellar's Future A Technical Perspective | Tomer Weller | 09m |
Stellar reports concrete results: protocol AMMs launch yields more than $14 million TVL and consistently routes 40–50% of swaps, while 99% of ledgers close… | ||
| Charting the Course | Denelle Dixon | 23m |
Stellar Development Foundation lays out a 2022 roadmap that builds on 2021 metrics: an enterprise fund investing $70M across 11 companies, relevant transaction… | ||
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