In the latest block by block episode, Denelle Dixon sits down with Austin Campbell, founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and a professor teaching digital assets at NYU Stern. Campbell’s background spans TradFi and crypto, including leading portfolio management at Paxos and time at JP Morgan and Citi. He brings a perspective that is equal parts practical and blunt.

Crypto’s next breakthrough isn’t a coin - it’s settlement

Can Privacy and Openness Coexist?

In pursuit of that mission, in 2019 the SDF adopted a formal mandate to use the XLM entrusted to us to build, promote, and strengthen the Stellar network and ecosystem. That core mandate hasn't changed. Six years later, the tools, strategies, and focus areas necessary to fulfill it have evolved significantly as Stellar's real-world usage has grown. Today, we're updating our mandate framework to reflect how we're allocating resources in 2025 and beyond.

An Updated Mandate for a Growing Stellar Ecosystem

This post outlines a prototype of Privacy Pools on the Stellar smart platform, using zero-knowledge proofs to enable private, compliance-aware asset transfers.

Prototyping Privacy Pools on Stellar

This block by block conversation with AirTM CEO Ruben Galindo looks at the real costs of cross-border payroll and how open, interoperable financial rails are changing them. With more than $1 billion in stablecoin payments processed and workers paid in 150+ countries, the episode focuses on reducing fees, improving last-mile conversion, and why enterprises are turning to stablecoin payouts as operating infrastructure rather than experiment.

Cutting Cross-Border Payroll Costs by 20–25% with Airtm

Explore the rise of KALE, the playful on-chain farming game that became a major driver of smart contract activity, innovation, and composability on Stellar.

The Story of Kale 🥬

We’re consolidating our Golang developer tools - including the Horizon and RPC clients, Ingest SDK, and key utilities - into a single, unified Go SDK for Stellar. This change simplifies the developer experience, improves discoverability, and aligns the Go ecosystem with the structure of other Stellar SDKs.

Introducing the Golang Stellar SDK

U.S. Bank, PwC, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) unveiled a major step forward in making programmable money bank-grade: U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on the Stellar network.

U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on the Stellar Network

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol X-Ray, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release information, a changelog, and more.

Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25 Upgrade Guide

A new protocol upgrade is coming up for the Stellar network: X-Ray! This upgrade begins laying the groundwork for developers to build configurable, compliance-forward privacy applications using zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography without compromising the transparency that defines Stellar.

Announcing Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25

Permissionless infrastructure generates exponential value through three compounding mechanisms: unexpected builders create breakthrough value, unknown use cases deliver asymmetric returns, and velocity enables rapid discovery. The question isn't whether open wins—it's how much value you're leaving on the table by building closed.

The Permissionless Premium: How Open Systems Create Exponential Value

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open-application grants program that provides the support, community, and funding for founders to launch their projects on the Stellar network. In this content series, we’re shining a light on some incredible builders and entrepreneurs who have received SCF awards, exploring their projects, and showcasing the real-world impact they’re creating with blockchain technology!

SCF Spotlight: Pavel Matveev of COCA

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