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2025-10-09

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

OpenZeppelin UI Builder demo

We are meeting with the OpenZeppelin team again to catch up on the latest developer tooling work they are doing.

This time Steve will demo UI Builder, an easy way to spin up a front-end for any contract call in seconds. UI Builder allows you to select a function and then it auto-generates a React UI with wallet connect and multi-network support, and exports a complete app.

OpenZeppelin UI Builder

Protocol Discussion

In this Core Advancement Proposal discussion CAP-0075 (Host functions for enabling Poseidon and Poseidon2 hash functions) is presented.

This CAP proposes adding host functions for cryptographic primitives enabling Poseidon family of hash functions, which are widely-adopted hash choices in efficient zero-knowledge proof systems. Supporting these as host functions in Soroban can facilitate adoption of ZK applications and interoperability with other ecosystems.

Link to CAP-0075

2025-08-07

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

In this meeting we talk to Flashback founder Brieuc Berruet, who participated in the DraperU x Stellar incubator program last year, to get an update on his project (spoiler alert - it's live!).

Learn more about the project, and see a cool demo!

Flashback Website

2025-07-24

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

In this meeting we are talking to Esteban and Francisco from PaltaLabs. Stellar Hacks is currently running a hackathon in collaboration with PaltaLabs, where the goal is to build using their projects Soroswap and DeFindex.

Let's see how the hackathon is going, and some advice if you are still considering entering, there's still time to enter!

Links:

2025-07-17

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

In this meeting the Nomyx team will give us an introduction to their advanced smart contract architecture (an implementation of the Diamond Pattern) and the Nomyx Diamond proxy viewer interface, that facilitates inspection of deployed diamonds and makes them a bit easier to work with.

They will also be showcasing a live deployment instance of the diamond proxy standard currently used for the Nomyx platform which removes limitations related to the upper contract size limit, allowing developers to launch complex products.

Nomyx Website

2025-07-10

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

In this call we are getting an update on the exciting Scaffold Stellar project by Fifo from Aha Labs.

Scaffold Stellar is a great way to fast-track new projects built on Stellar. It has starter smart contracts, frontend, plugins and tooling built-in.

Scaffold Stellar Repo

2025-05-22

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

At this Stellar Developer Meeting we are having a chat with Bram Hoogenkamp from OpenZeppelin about the OpenZeppelin Monitor - providing monitoring and alerting for smart contracts.

2025-05-01

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

We are close to completing the implementation of Whisk, Protocol 23 CAPs, the next step in the CAP lifecycle is voting by the Core CAP team. In this protocol meeting an update was provided on the CAPs and any final questions from the community was answered.

Read up on the CAPs here:

CAP-0062 - Discussion

CAP-0063 - Discussion

CAP-0065 - Discussion

CAP-0066 - Discussion

CAP-0067 - Discussion

CAP-0068 - Discussion

CAP-0069 - Discussion

CAP-0070 - Discussion

2025-04-17

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

This week we’ll dive into one of the most overlooked tools - Quickstart.

Quickstart is a local Stellar network environment (node) that allows developers to run a local version of the Stellar network for development and testing.

Learn about Quickstart, see how to install it and how to deploy the Hello World sample dapp on Quickstart.

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2025-04-10

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

Pamphile (better know as tupui) is a senior software engineer working at Bitpanda. Previously he worked in the team who brought Flight Simulator 2020, and he created a consulting company to work on open source software.

Now he is building his project named Tansu on the Stellar blockchain. Tansu is a decentralized system which aims to secure the software supply chain and break siloed communities by using a DAO.

Link:

2025-04-03

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Carsten Jacobsen
Senior Developer Advocate

First we take a look at look at Stellar Lab, a lot of features and improvements have been added since we did a Stellar Lab presentation last year. Stellar Lab is a powerful tool for everyone developing on Stellar.

We are looking for community feedback on the Upgradeable Contracts SEP, and will present the details of this proposal.

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