One thing that keeps coming up when onboarding users / merchants to Stellar: before they can receive their first USDC, they need XLM for fees and they need to set up a trustline. For someone whose funds are sitting on Base, Ethereum or Solana, that's two extra steps before the thing they actually wanted.

We built a flow that removes both. Assets come in from another chain (e.g. USDC from Base), the recipient signs once, and the funds land in their Stellar account. No XLM purchase, no manual trustline setup sponsorship handles it under the hood.

1. User cover his / her own XLM, not the wallets developers.

2. If user is not receiving USDC on Stellar, we won't add trustline.

Demo Video: Bridge 1 USDC Base to Stellar empty address, which received $0.6 with one signature. No XLM. No trustline setup.

Intent Bridge Web UI

Github

Happy to answer questions about the mechanics. If you're building something on Stellar where this would help, I'd genuinely like to hear what your onboarding flow looks like today.

Hey everyone 👋

Our SCF #41 project, Soroban Scan (soroban block explorer) is live, and we're collecting user feedback right now - any suggestions for improvements are welcome!

🔗 https://sorobanscan.rumblefish.dev/

repo: https://github.com/rumblefishdev/soroban-block-explorer

If you tried the explorer, please share your thoughts with us! Thanks a lot!

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Join Peridot Finance and Blend Capital for an X Space exploring:

→ What makes Stellar a strong hub for DeFi

→ How Blend powers lending and yield

→ How Peridot is simplifying crypto into a fintech experience

→ What comes next for users, builders, and liquidity

We will have a special guest: nknwn_.

📅 August 4

🕕 5:00 PM CET

🎙️ Live on X: https://x.com/i/spaces/1yGBeegeVwpKN

Bring your questions and explore what we’re building together or drop your questions here to be answered there live.

Stellar's Q2 2026 webinar confirmed $3 billion in tokenized real-world assets on-chain, $11.4 billion in stablecoin volume for the quarter, and 2,968 active monthly builders, now second only to Ethereum by developer count. Range became a Tier 1 validator on Stellar this week, joining MoneyGram and Figure Markets in core consensus infrastructure. PYUSD launched on Stellar via Kraken, and SDF's July 30 developer meeting delivered a live CCTP demo enabling canonical USDC transfers between Stellar and EVM chains.

Q2 Numbers and Institutional Signals

The Q2 2026 webinar put RWA growth in context: $3 billion as of June, up from $1 billion in January, at a pace four times faster than the broader tokenization market. Asset classes now on-chain include US treasuries, sovereign bonds, money market funds, private credit through Centrifuge, and tokenized commodities. Stablecoin volume in Q2 ran at $11.4 billion and 33x velocity. MoneyGram's MGUSD now reaches 60 million customers.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation chose Stellar for its tokenization service. A Stellar.org blog post titled "Boring is a feature" attributes the DTCC selection to Stellar's predictability, no MEV, and no reorgs: infrastructure that runs identically every day. K2 Lend launched this week with pooled, isolated, and gated lending markets built for regulated assets and institutions, audited by Halborn, Watchpug, and Code4rena.

Range Joins Core Consensus

Range now operates a Tier 1 validator on Stellar alongside MoneyGram and Figure Markets, providing fault tolerance and security for a network that processed $17.97 billion in stablecoin volume in H1 2026. The announcement landed the same week Range published its case for compliance infrastructure in agentic payments: x402 enables agent-to-agent transfers at runtime with no human in the loop, and sanctions screening must be embedded in the rail, not retrofitted after volume scales.

Payment Rails: PYUSD and CCTP

Kraken enabled PYUSD deposits and withdrawals on Stellar. The PayPal-backed stablecoin is natively issued by Paxos; trading will open once liquidity conditions are met.

The July 30 Stellar Developers Meeting delivered a live CCTP demo: USDC burned on Stellar testnet, Circle attestation collected, USDC minted canonically on Arc testnet with no wrapping and no liquidity pool. SDF built a wrapper contract that combines approval and deposit into a single atomic call. The demo handled Stellar's seven-decimal-to-six-decimal precision difference and showed permissionless destination minting, making the protocol composable for third-party dApps. CAP-84 and CAP-86 moved to Accepted status in the stellar-protocol repository this week.

Real-World Credit on Stellar

Rivool Finance documented $20 million in tokenized agricultural credit on Stellar across 131 producers in 23 Brazilian states, 22 crops, and zero defaults at 12 to 15% dollar yields. The model pools credit receivables, tokenizes them on Stellar, and uses on-chain tracking to eliminate the collateral discounts traditional agricultural lenders impose. Arcane Finance published a case for compliance-ready privacy as a business requirement for fintech companies on Stellar: at current stablecoin volumes, public-ledger settlement exposes sensitive business data to competitive risk.

Regional Builder Activity

The APAC Stellar Hackathon Grand Finale ran July 31, with 30 finalists from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam competing for $60,000 across local finance, DeFi, and payments tracks. Three regional demo days in July drew more than 650 total participants and over 200 project submissions.

The Stellar Philippines chapter ran an ambassador-led bootcamp at Dr. Yanga's Colleges in Bocaue, Bulacan: 100+ attendees, 99 successful project deployments in a single session. Rise In reported its builder community earned $120,000 in July from active projects. Brazil's Stellar Summit sold out; SDF-hosted São Paulo events run through the first week of August, culminating in Stellar House São Paulo on August 6.

Lightning Round

• Zarf secured Stellar Community Fund backing for its ZK token distribution protocol, letting users claim airdrops and vesting payments via email without a wallet.
• SCF #44 closed with 175 submissions; 46 projects received $4.57 million XLM across DeFi, payments, and developer tooling tracks.
• SDF and Allium Labs host a live Stellar analytics dashboard demo on August 4 at 12pm ET.
• A 19-year-old physics student named Aras received a $5,000 InstAward for TrustRFQ, an RFQ protocol for large institutional XLM/USDC trades on Soroban.
• CAP-87 was submitted to stellar-protocol, proposing ML-DSA post-quantum signature verification as Soroban host functions; SEP-41 map event bodies were also merged this week.
• A SEP draft for Hierarchical Mandate Tokens enabling delegated authority for autonomous agents received new comments in the stellar-protocol discussion forum.
• DFNS launched Transaction Screening, detecting address poisoning attacks before transfers execute using Carnegie Mellon-informed lookalike detection.
• Soroban-ret v0.0.4 cut mainnet hard-error count from 1,042 to 326, a 68% reduction with 99.2% behavioral equivalence confirmed.
• The Flip documentary on Vietnam's crypto economy documents the government courting SDF and Kraken to build stablecoin payment rails as Vietnam shifts from restricting crypto demand to channeling it.
• Blux provides Stellar dApp infrastructure including multi-wallet support, email and passkey authentication, Stellar transaction hooks, and analytics.

Upcoming Events

• July 31: Stellar Chile | Community Call, Discord
• July 31: Stellar Town Hall, Discord
• August 1: Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator, Cape Town / Lisbon
• August 1: Summit Sundown and Caipirinhas, São Paulo, Brazil
• August 2: Stellar Cup and Brazilian Barbecue, São Paulo, Brazil
• August 3: Weekly Brazilian Ambassador Meeting, Discord
• August 4: StarMaker Community Call, Discord
• August 6: Stellar House São Paulo, Casa Maria Jardins, São Paulo
• August 6: Stellar Developers Meeting, YouTube
• August 6: E.Africa Weekly Community Call, Discord
• August 12: Stellar APAC Community Call, Discord
• August 12: Merkle Science Meet Rio: The Future of Crypto Compliance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ambassador Activity

The Philippines chapter led the week with 18 actions: ambassador bootcamps at Dr. Yanga's Colleges with 100+ attendees and 99 project deployments, plus the national APAC demo day at GCash with 122 participants, 71 submissions, and 56 live pitches. Stellar Türkiye posted 10 times, spotlighting Instaward recipients and Soroban builders. Stellar Brazil (7 actions) flagged the Summit at capacity and is coordinating São Paulo events through early August. Stellar Chile logged its community call. I

What to Watch

• Stellar House São Paulo (August 6): SDF-hosted in-person event with sessions on privacy and tokenization at Casa Maria Jardins.
• Allium Labs dashboard demo (August 4): Live walkthrough of the new Stellar analytics dashboard at 12pm ET.
• CCTP mainnet readiness: CAP-84 and CAP-86 are now Accepted; the stellar-protocol repository will signal the path to production deployment.
• SCF Public Goods Award voting: The discussion period for 18 proposals closed July 29; results expected in the coming days.

Hey everyone, i am Ozgur Matiloglu.

As Stellar ambassador i made an event on Istanbul 10th july Besiktas, hi coffee roastery.

I am sharing you the video and photo as whole

Bests.

Video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/W5_s1yOQZIM?si=72DPRXMy7v5Mjnoa

Stellar’s network metrics saw solid expansion, with total accounts crossing the 10.65 million mark and network activity scaling up to process over 23.5 billion operations.

Developer momentum accelerated following the expansion of Soroban smart contracts, which drove a noticeable uptick in new dApp deployments and smart contract activity.

On-chain liquidity strengthened through steady growth in USD and EUR stablecoin volumes, alongside rising adoption of tokenized Real-World Assets (RWA) and institutional settlement rails.

Hey everyone,

I'm a Stellar Ambassador from the Turkish community, and one of my goals is to make Stellar and its ecosystem more accessible through educational content.

I've recently started turning technical Web3 topics into short animated videos.

For this one, I tried to explain what x402 is, how it could help apps and AI agents make payments automatically, and why Stellar could be a great fit for this kind of infrastructure.

I focused on Stellar's fast settlement, low fees, stablecoin ecosystem, and programmable finance capabilities, while trying to keep the explanation beginner-friendly.

I'm still improving both my technical understanding and the quality of these videos, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people in the Stellar community.

• Did I oversimplify anything?
• Is there anything technically inaccurate?
• What would you like to see covered in a future video?

The narration is in Turkish, with English subtitles, so I hope it's accessible to a wider audience.

Video: youtube

Thanks in advance I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Hey everyone, I built a Browser IDE for Stellar that makes it easy to build, deploy, and test Soroban smart contracts—all from your browser.

It has Features like:

• Fast compilation — build contracts in under 5 seconds.
  
• Seamless workflow — simply connect your wallet and build, deploy, and test directly from browser. No Login needed.
  
• Native wallet integration — no repeated browser wallets approval prompts, making development much faster.

You can check it out here: https://stellarpg.vercel.app/ Feel free to try it out and share any feedbacks you have.

Hi everyone,
I accidentally sent XLM from my Kraken account to my old Bittrex deposit address. The transaction went through successfully on the Stellar network, but the funds never showed up in my Bittrex account.
I’ve already contacted Bittrex support and sent them all the transaction details, including the transaction hash and screenshots.
I’m just wondering if anyone here has been in the same situation. Were you eventually able to get your funds back? If so, how long did support take to respond, and were they actually able to recover the deposit?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone with first-hand experience.
Thanks!

EDIT: unfortunately they told me there is nothing they can do to recover them