Art 🤝 Smart Contracts: NFTs at Meridian 2025

In the latest episode of Block by Block, Denelle Dixon speaks with Ben Milne, founder and CEO of Brale, about what has constrained stablecoin adoption—and what’s finally shifting.


$100M → $1: Stablecoin Issuance on Brale

SCF v7.0 introduces faster funding, milestone-based grants, referral pathways, and post-launch support for developers building on Stellar.

Introducing SCF v7.0: Faster Paths to Funding, Higher-Quality Projects, and a Smarter Way to Build on Stellar

Redefining Everyday Payments

In 2025, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) showed that more than a decade of ecosystem support and collaboration had prepared the Stellar network to meet a seismic shift in sentiment and adoption. The 2025 roadmap was clear: improve technical performance for both builders and enterprises, expand product offerings through the Stellar Disbursement Platform, and prepare the protocol for privacy features that are configurable and compliance-friendly from the start.

Stellar 2025: A Podium Finish 

Tokenizing Real Estate with RedSwan

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?

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 🥬

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

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