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            <title><![CDATA[Crypto’s next breakthrough isn’t a coin - it’s settlement]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Privacy and Openness Coexist?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Updated Mandate for a Growing Stellar Ecosystem]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prototyping Privacy Pools on Stellar]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:22:15 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This post outlines a prototype of Privacy Pools on the Stellar smart platform, using zero-knowledge proofs to enable private, compliance-aware asset transfers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cutting Cross-Border Payroll Costs by 20–25% with Airtm]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Story of Kale 🥬]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:19:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the Golang Stellar SDK]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:57:31 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on the Stellar Network]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:02:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25 Upgrade Guide]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:04:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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