Hello. Hello. How are you? Great. Thank you. I see that a lot of people
out of the people is arriving. We're just waiting for a few more folks to trickle in and we'll
get started and say give us about three to five minutes. Just doing a quick soundcheck
is this thing on? Yep. Yep. Awesome. Quick soundcheck on my hands as well. Sound and clear. Soundcheck
from Esteban. Good. Hey, everyone. Quick soundcheck on my side, too. Gabby also wants to join us
picking unicorns. Yep. Hey, everyone. Soundcheck from my side, too. Perfect. Hey, also want to
check with the sound? We hear you loud and clear. Perfect. Seems like we've had some extensive
soundcheckings. Do we feel ready to start? Yeah, I think we're good. If anyone else needs
to become a speaker, we will add them as we go. Go for it, Justin. Great. Hi, everyone. Thanks
for joining this Twitter space on this momentous occasion. I'm Justin Rice. I'm VP of Ecosystem
at the Stellar Development Foundation. I'm here with Tomer Weller, who is our VP of
product, as well as people from a lot of different companies that have been building
on Stellar and specifically building products and services that make use of Sorbonne. We've
got people from Axilar, Allbridge, Beans, Blend, Cables, and Soraswap. And I'm very
excited to hear about what they're building, to have a discussion about their experience
and just to mark this moment when we're actually deploying things to mainnet and seeing this
whole ecosystem come to life. So today, in case you didn't know, it's been a while.
It's been a couple of years in coming, but basically Stellar has added smart contract
functionality. And today, validators voted to move into phase two of the rollout of
those smart contracts. The phase rollout was created in order to allow the addition
of smart contracts transactions to a very live network and to do it in a way where it was
clear that it wasn't disrupting any of the ongoing traffic. And it worked, right? Phase
zero was sort of an observed phase. Phase one, people began deploying and now we're
in phase two, which is when anyone who is ready can sort of deploy to mainnet. Like
if phase zero was, you know, ready, phase one was aim, phase two, it's fire. So validators
have now increased the sort of transactions per ledger for smart contracts. And builders
can really start opening up their Sorbon-based applications to users. We've already seen
some deploy. We're going to talk to some of them today. Very, very exciting, very big day.
But before we do that, now that phase two is live, Tomer, can you just give us like
a little bit of context, walk us through what makes Sorbon such an interesting platform?
Tell us what you can about what sets it apart from other smart contract platforms.
Sure, happy to. So yeah, I think Sorbon is unique in the sense that it comes into a live,
successful, you know, blockchain stellar that already has like great product market fit around
our own financial inclusion and building equitable access to the world's financial system. And
so we already have this, especially like the anchor network, which brings you on and off
ramps around the world, through local rails, you know, things like, and tokens in Brazil
that allows you to go from from RI to USCC or things like money grant allow you, you
know, globally to move from cash to USCC on chain through like a cash network. So we
already have that in place. And smart contracts really allow you to build on that and like
innovate using that infrastructure. And so we've built Sorbon in the past couple of years,
we've done it in the open, I think, Justin, that you like to say that Sorbon was built
in the streets, not in the lab, and I couldn't agree more. And I do think that obviously
I'm biased by I think that like the developer experience that we have in Sorbon is some
of the best developer experience in blockchain. If you are a Rust developer, then this is
a geomatic for us, you'll feel right at home. If you are, you know, just getting started
with the rusts and Sorbon is really like a great way to get started. So overall, just
like a really great platform for build products for financial inclusion. So really excited
to see what people are doing. Like you said, it's been a phase rollout. And for the past
few weeks, we've been a phase one, which has been actually like more successful than
we hoped for. We already see a lot of live products, and we can't wait for both people
Awesome. Yeah, I think it's it's again, it's a really exciting day and building it in
the streets, as Tomer pointed out doing it in preview releases where like the ecosystem
could actually build alongside the development of the platform was like a really interesting
experience. And I think it got us where we are today, which is with this whole slew
of projects that are live are pretty much ready to go live right about now. And I guess
I kind of want to turn the attention to them because I think the most exciting thing that's
happened has been like just how quickly these sophisticated and interesting projects have
like managed to bootstrap themselves, understand the technology and build something interesting.
And so I would love to hear from all of our guests about what they're building, and
why. And so I guess it's kind of the question that I want to go through with the interview
is just like, to do that, like tell us what you're building on stellar, tell us what you're
doing with Sorbonne, and tell us what like why you chose to do that and sort of what
excites you about Sorbonne. I think I'd like to stop start with a source swap Esteban,
Hello. Hello. Thank you very much for our introduction. Yes, I can start so source up.
It's going to be a very important building block on this defy new defy ecosystem with Sorbonne.
We built a mam. So you can trade your favorite stare classic asset, but you can also trade
your new Sorbonne tokens that can represent a position in any other protocol. But we want
to go further. And we are also building an mam aggregator. And we want to do partnerships
with other protocols. So you can really have this cash to defy experience, where you can
use an on-ramp, you can let's say buy USDC. And then through source up, you can swap into
another token, and then use the protocol you want. So we want to be this building block,
and we want to work with more people in the ecosystem.
Awesome. Let's, let's hear from somebody else who's building, then we can sort of come back
and hear more about what that looks like for you and what your experience has been. But
how about one of the, how about AxlR? AxlR, can you tell us a little bit about what you're
what you built and why you chose to build it on stellar and how you're using Sorbonne?
Hey there, everybody. My name is Stephen Fluhan. I'm head of job relations working on the
AxlR network. We're integrated Sorbonne to really connect it to the 60 plus chains
that are already connected to the AxlR network. So if you haven't heard of AxlR before, the
AxlR network is a programmable interop layer platform that allows developers to kind of
build apps that exist across multiple blockchains. So giving you APIs that you connect, send
messages, interact with interfaces, smart contracts, move tokens, and build apps that
are architected to be bigger than a single blockchain. This really lets you take advantage
of kind of the rich ecosystem that already exists, tapping into users and liquidity wherever
they are and wherever you want to be. There's tons of reasons we're integrating with Sorbonne
and happy to chat about that whenever you like.
Awesome. So we've heard from a DeFi protocol. We've heard from sort of a bridging
protocol. I'd love to hear from an application. Wouter, tell us about Beans and tell us
about your sort of Sorbonne integration and what it looks like.
Yeah, sure. So my name is Wouter, founder of Beans, and with Beans we build a non-custodial
wallet on Stellar. What we realized is that international payments and escaping inflation
is a great use case for blockchain. But what we also recognized is that it's not
really usable by people that are not into Web3 or crypto. It's hard to use. People
have to use private keys. On-chain fees, for example, are pretty weird for someone like
my mom to experience. So what we built is a wallet where you don't have to manage your
private key, where it's very easy to use. You don't have to think about on-chain fees.
We sponsor these fees. So we made it very easy and we've acquired quite some users that
are basically Web2 users that use a non-custodial wallet. And what we use Sorbonne for is
a couple of things. What we want to do is integrate with Blend. We'll probably introduce
themselves later to allow users to deposit into, for example, lending pools and to earn
yield this way. But then in a really easy to use way, which means we have to be able
to abstract away all blockchain technology to the backend. We did a demo during the
last meridian, so people interested into that, we can definitely share. And then there's
another use case that we are building, and that's an API which people can use to, for
example, ask for subscriptions for recurring payments. So you can, as a webshop, say,
I want to receive $10 and a beans user that wants to pay in euros can then click a
payment link and pay in their preferred currency, which converts automatically. And if it's a
recurring payment, it will be deducted from your wallet automatically. So that's the things we
Fantastic. I mean, I think there's an interesting story there of interoperation with a
protocol that's built on Sorbonne, which you mentioned, Blend. So I'd love to hear from
Blend, tell us a little bit about what you're building and where you're at, and
anything you can about why you chose Sorbonne. Marcus.
Hey, guys. Yeah, I'm Marcus, I'm with script three, and we are kind of spearheading
Blend, which is a open source lending protocol primitive. What that means in the long
short of it is it just allows anybody, whether they're a protocol, wallet, DAO,
whatever to deploy their own instance of a lending market. And then we have mechanisms
and controllers that handle the hard stuff like risk management and interest rates and
other financial controls for you. So all you have to do is deploy the pool. And then
most of the rest of as long as your parameters, is that correct? The everything
or the management just kind of happens by itself, right? So the whole point of
building that on Sorbonne was, we have always really liked Stellar's approach of
kind of targeting, like real finance applications, like real world finance, serving
like, underserved economies and populations who don't have access to like, good financial
services with their blockchain. And still is really, really good at getting assets on and
off chain, right? But there isn't really a good way to actually move liquidity around
once it's on chain in a trustless manner. So we hope that by building a lending
primitive, that makes it really easy for people to build apps for financing remittances
or funding market makers or doing real world asset lending, or even just like general
leverage trading, which is the most common application for lending protocols at the
moment. We hope to really enable a lot more of that activity on Stellar and draw
on a lot more capital and make it actually stay on chain rather than just being Stellar
just being used as a venue to move money from one country to another.
Amazing, thank you. Allbridge, I'd love to hear from Andrea from Allbridge too, also
a bridging protocol, because I think we're starting to like see the picture come
together of like, DeFi protocols, bridging wallets. But I know that what Allbridge
does is a little bit different. So, Andre, are you here, Allbridge?
Hey, so there has been a slight change of plan, actually. So Andre, he has been flying
right now. But I am here instead of him looking to present a bit about Allbridge.
My name is Paul, and I do business development for Allbridge. And what we do,
we're also, of course, on the bridging side of things. And we allow users to access
different chains through swap and stablecoins. So with our integration of
Sorabang, which is quite a big milestone for us, it's going to be our 10th
supported chain, we are looking to onboard additional liquidity, additional user
base into the system and open up in the DeFi space.
Amazing. Last but not least, we have Ben from Cables. Ben, can you tell us a little
bit about what you're building?
Sure. Hey, everyone. So at Cables Finance, we're looking to bring the foreign
exchange market on chain and use on chain rails to lower fees and increase
speed and increase security. What we have built for Sorabang as of now is the
Cables DEX, which we view as our kind of liquidity hub on chain. We're able
to bridge off-chain liquidity and allow access to it on chain. And therefore,
bolster the available options for users looking to trade in stablecoins and the
wide range of stable asset providers that are already available on chain. And
I think why Stellar and why Sorabang? I just think the missions are very
aligned between the two teams. We're very excited to be working
directly with, like I mentioned, the large stable asset providers already on
the chain and then help bring more on by using our liquidity to help bolster
payments and everything of that sort. Thank you.
Cool. Now we sort of heard from everybody. I think it's pretty amazing that there
is this diversity of projects that I think kind of stack together to make a
pretty complete ecosystem. You can start to imagine how use cases work
together, how different options open up for people to do a lot of different
things using Sorabang and using the projects and services that are built on
them. I guess one thing I'd love to hear from, and I think I just want to
open it up and let people sort of volunteer. But what has your experience
been like building in the Stellar ecosystem? What has it been like meeting
other projects, working with other projects? Is there anything you can
tell me about sort of the community or the ecosystem and how you work together,
how you find each other and what the experience has been like? Anyone have
It has been fun. It has been a very fun experience. I think the Stellar
and Sorabang ecosystem and community, it's always willing to help and there
is no bad question to be asked. There is always someone wanting to help
you and to improve the community.
Yeah, I think I'd echo that. The nice thing about building in Stellar is
it's a much more, I think, welcoming and tight knit community than a lot
of other crypto ecosystems out there. Most people are here because they believe
in a greater mission for blockchain than just an unregulated casino. So
everybody has a lot of passion when it comes to building real products
and trying to help other people build real products. So they're always very
happy to talk to anybody else who is trying to accomplish the same thing
and talk about integrations or offer advice. I mean, generally it's
just very, very welcoming, very easy to get advice, very easy to just hop
into Discord and talk to the core devs and get help with Rust from Graden,
you know? So, yeah, it's been a really good experience. I have really
nothing bad to say about the community.
Yeah, maybe to add on that is that it's really cool to see indeed that there's a
lot of focus on solving actual problems instead of the focus on more the hype
side of blockchain indeed. And what makes that easy is that Stellar has been
building the toolset to do that really easily as well. So, for example, on our
side, it is possible to sponsor the fees of our users so that we can
abstract away unchained fees. It is very easy to use one integration to have
many on-off rams all around the world. And so there are many of these
standards in place already on Stellar, which makes it even easier to onboard
Sorbonne, for example. So that's really cool as well, that this focus on
actual problem-solving not only is in the community, but also in the toolset
that is available. Yeah, Stellar has kind of spent a lot of time as an ecosystem
solving the boring problems, which is really nice for application developers
and surprisingly rare in the blockchain ecosystem. It's kind of funny. And I'll
time in just one piece on the technical side, which is that even though Sorbonne
is still so new, it benefits from this rich, rust ecosystem, right? There's so
many libraries out there. There's so many tools for development that you can just
rely on, that we've been relying on already. Yeah, that's an interesting
point. And I'm curious if what Tomer said rings true to you earlier, because
I think one of the things that we've found in talking to people that are
building on Sorbonne is that there is a lot about it that's sort of technically
sweet. There's a lot about it that benefits from second mover advantage,
from looking at what other blockchain platforms have done right, and what
they've done wrong, and trying to actually build a developer experience,
and even like fundamentals that are really good for projects and good for
the health of the network in the long term. And I'm curious if anyone has any
like experience they can share, I don't know, using any of those tools. Does it
ring true? Are there things about building on Sorbonne that make it
like that sort of distinguish it from building on other blockchain ecosystems?
Is there something about your developing experience that you can share, your
I think that one, like I think the main one is really just being able to
develop and rest like was brought up earlier, but I think some of the less
stated ones that you wouldn't really think about unless you started
actually building an application, are the fact that you don't have to worry
about like a native token, like the way that Sorbonne was set up, like XLM kind
of works out of the box, and Sorbonne contraction is not like weird,
weak, eath, dynamic. And then one thing that I've never thought about that I
heard from, I don't remember who it was, but I was talking to someone that's
the most of the development in the Ethereum ecosystem, and they just brought
up how nice it is that you can just use, like go to sort of like Stellar's test
net and just fund your wallet with XLM, and the test net works incredibly well
versus having to deal with like buying Gorillie or something, because it's just
impossible to get these days. So I think something that like we don't really
recognize in the Sorbonne ecosystem that is actually a really large advantage
and eliminates a surprisingly large pain point from blockchain development. And
there's like a bunch of other ones, but I just wanted to touch on some of the
smaller ones that I think it brought up less.
For us, our developers were really happy with the CLI, and they were saying like
this is the most exceptional thing ever, and the guys who are engaged with the
development should be given a medal. They also mentioned that the documentation
was really cool and illustrated a lot of examples, and it was really, really
helpful for them. That's my share on the development process.
I think I'm going to try to figure out how to get some medals made. That's
pretty amazing to hear. And I'm sort of floored. I can't wait to tell
anyone who's not listening who has been working on Sorbonne. I hope that
like this message gets back to you because it's pretty amazing to hear
that, especially from anyone, but definitely from a protocol that has been
building across ecosystems. It's pretty awesome.
One other thing to add, just kind of on that line of thinking, the Sorbonne
development team did a really good job eliminating foot guns that you see
in a lot of other ecosystems that have been around for longer. It's just a
lot harder. Part of this is also just DDS using Rust, but it's a lot harder
to make silly mistakes and mistakes that you wouldn't normally recognize.
So something like re-entrancy, for instance, you don't really even need
to think about in Sorbonne because it's disabled by default. And then
other things along those lines. The team thought about that before putting
Sorbonne out there and made it so that we're going to have a much safer
ecosystem out the gate than a lot of other ecosystems have had.
It's kind of funny that this CLI was amazing because we were also
implementing, we were deploying our contracts with the CLI, but then we
turned into using the JavaScript or Diccript Stellar SDK, and it was much
more amazing, even more than before. And I think what was very good for
us is that the Stellar Development Foundation team was really responsive,
always. At some point, I suggested to do some changes in some libraries
and they say, okay, please open an issue. Okay, I will open an issue.
And then in a couple of days, the issue was resolved and a pull request
was made and the pull request was merged. It's very difficult to imagine
other blockchain to have this fast experience with official libraries.
So imagine opening an issue in Ethereum, you wouldn't have a fast response
here. Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
I do want to also say thank you for opening that issue. It's pretty amazing
that we have this open source community that is actually willing not only to
raise issues, but when someone says, please open an issue that they're
willing to actually get in there and do it. And I think that we've seen a
real increase in participation across repositories. We've seen a lot more
people that are raising issues, that are creating PRs, and even that are
contributing across different project code, which is pretty awesome.
I guess that is a question maybe I have for all of you. What are the benefits
and challenges you've found working in just open source in general,
like working on open source projects, for most of many of you, that are built
on top of an open source protocol? Do you think that there are benefits
to building that way? And if so, what are they?
I think the benefits there come down to purely just like the increased
collaboration and the ease it comes with, with being able to find
different partnerships and synergies. I think that's something that our team
really enjoyed, along with the responsiveness of the stellar team in
the community at large in Discord. Everyone was very open talking about
what they were building, and that made it very easy to solve different
problems and find unique partners to help make your product better
and everything done that way.
I'll chime in a little bit. I've been working in open source for over
a decade at a bunch of different teams. Open source, people, a lot of
people think, oh, it's easier. You just make your project open source
and everyone's going to come and contribute, but it's actually the
opposite. It's actually harder to be an open source project and actually
serve the community in a way that welcomes contribution, welcomes
everyone in. And so doing that right is harder, but it has huge
benefits in terms of ecosystem momentum, in terms of giving every
customer that you have security and a sense of inevitability that the
project is going to continue to survive and thrive because everything's
happening in the open. You can see what's going on.
I think we learn. We learn a lot from each other. We haven't had
much contribution from the community into our repositories, but we do
look into other people's repositories. For example, we do look at
Blends repositories. We implemented this address book to deploy smart
contracts. It's amazing. I think it's a very good moment to share
everything we are doing. This is the beginning and we should be letting
other people read our code. It's much easier when someone asks a
question. You just say, OK, check this code instead of explaining
everything from the beginning.
I am curious to learn a bit more about some of you guys have already been
through an audit and building on open source means that your code is out
there in the open and anyone can see what's going on there. And so
there is an aspect of friction and surface area for
vulnerabilities. And I know that some of you folks have already worked with
auditors through the audit bank that we announced in Meridian. How has that
experience been and tell us a bit about your security journey? So I think
we have Blend and we have Esteban and Cables. I know you've all been
through audits. We'd love to learn a bit about the process.
Yeah, I didn't kick it off. I mean, it was good. We worked with Sertora and
Ottersec for Blend and they both really were very helpful. They had a lot of
tips, not just for the protocol, but also for just general optimal rust
usage. So that was really helpful. And then they were just very engaged and
interested. And it was kind of cool. They were asking questions about the
protocol, not just from a security standpoint. They just thought it was
neat. So yeah, I don't know. It was just a good experience overall.
In the case of Sorswap, for us, it was a fun experience. It was a moment to
learn, to learn together, and also a moment to share the things we learned
with the community. So we are soon releasing an audit blog post about
our experience. We released the audit, the audit itself yesterday. We work
with Ottersec and we are very happy that we learned a lot through this
experience and we have our smart contract saves.
Yeah, and Arset, I think just echoing what everyone else has been saying just
we worked with Halborn and Sartora, and I think it was a real benefit
working with them and their interest in the business logic and kind of using
that to help inform their knowledge and different flows and finding any
potential vulnerabilities on that path just beyond just a simple code check. I
think it was a great experience all around.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome to hear. I know that it's been a real sort of
emphasis from the ecosystem as a whole to try to think about how do we make
the Sorbonne ecosystem and the Stellar ecosystem have really high standards
for security, and it's pretty awesome that all these audits are happening and
that they're happening so soon and that they're such a core part of just
everyone's development process. And as a few people have alluded to, part of
that is happening through an audit bank like the Stellar Development
Foundation has set up these audit credits that projects, when they're
ready for mainnet Sorbonne launch, can qualify for, they can get these audits
paid for through this audit bank, this bank of credits that we offer. And we're
sort of putting that out there as part of the overall series of programs that
we're trying to use to support the development of smart contracts to help
projects get going and to help create the ecosystem that can really piece
together to create real world use cases and that can do it in a way that like
meets these high standards of safety and security. And so I, one of the
biggest programs that we've had that has sort of done this a lot over the past
year is the Stellar Community Fund, which I would actually, I think Anka is here,
so rather than sort of telling us about that, I would love to sort of talk a
little bit about the Sorbonne Adoption Fund, about the Stellar Community Fund,
and about sort of the support systems that exist to help developers and their
projects get to the place where many of the projects on this call are today.
Anka, can you tell us a little bit about the SCF, where we're at, where it's going?
Yes, for sure. I mean, thanks so much for everything. This was an awesome
conversation and so aside from some of the unique design features that set Sorbonne
apart that were mentioned here, as well as exponentially growing impactful and
purpose-driven ecosystem, projects building on Sorbonne can actually take
advantage of end-to-end support from SDF building on Sorbonne. And so last year
we've announced the Sorbonne Adoption Fund, where we've dedicated a hundred
million dollars to put towards supporting growth of the ecosystem of Sorbonne. And
this was not just all talk. Last year we actually awarded over 10 million dollars
in excellent via the Stellar Community Fund to over 150 projects building on
Sorbonne. And so this ranges anywhere from financial protocols to oracles to
indexers to IDEs, all sorts of application tooling and infrastructure to
really build the foundation of this emerging smart contracts ecosystem. And so
it's actually super exciting just seeing all these projects now move to Maynet.
And many of even of the folks speaking here today have gotten funding through
SCF to build their projects. I see SoraSwap, Scriptry, Albridge, Beanlab.
Let's see, I see Fred from Lightman. I see like Morgan from Akashi. See lots of
people here in the audience as well. So super excited that you're here. And so
now like smart contract functionality is on Stellar Maynet. A lot of projects are
able to deploy. Our ecosystem growth programs will also add this additional
support to really meet the needs of this evolving ecosystem. And this
includes like what you mentioned earlier about furthering other credit support but
also funding to support liquidity needs, credits for RPC infrastructure,
accelerator programs and more. We have tons of ideas and things in the
making currently and would love to share more very soon. So yeah, I mean
overall if this info, if this conversation really piqued your interest, take a look at
our docs, our educational content. There's also great community-built tooling
such as the Akashi smart contract playground to get people started super
quick as well as tutorials to migrate from other ecosystems, gamified
challenges to hone your smart contract skills and build end-to-end example
apps. And so as I mentioned already, these so if once you're kind of like
learning Sorbonne and you really have a grasp upon it, we highly encourage any
project to submit to the Stellar Community Fund which is an open
application awards program that draws on community input to support developers and
startups building on Stellar and Sorbonne. And a little bit about it, so qualified
submissions may actually be eligible to receive awards up to $100,000 worth of
excellent at a time. And so these award rounds actually run really frequently.
They're run every four weeks now. SCF 26 started today with an April 15 deadline,
but as a face-to-special, we've added the early deadline of April 3rd.
So if you wanted to get your project in earlier and earlier.
And so for these SCF awards, like the requirements are mainly to
have a ready to build projects that brings or will bring significant value to
the ecosystem, either through creating entire new use cases, tooling or
infrastructure, or having bringing a whole new market or user base to the ecosystem.
And so let's say you're still ideating, you would like more support.
We highly encourage you to apply to participate in the SCF
startup camp, which is a virtual four-day boot camp to just transform your ideas
into a well-defined proof of concept, ready to submit for SCF awards.
The next deadline is April 10th. So a lot of cool April deadlines if you're
interested. And again, if you missed a few details here, don't fret.
You can find anything that you need on communityfund.stellar.org.
We're gathering some of these programs.
There's tons of information available on stellar.org and storefund.stellar.org.
Again, if you have any questions, we have a super engaging and awesome
Discord community that's always ready to help, as Marcus pointed out earlier.
So, yeah, thanks so much.
And I hope lots more folks start building ends at the point of Maynet.
So, yeah, I mean, it's pretty exciting.
Here we are, what is really like sort of the big day one launch, deploy every
smart contract to Maynet.
We already have all these projects that are pretty sophisticated, that are pretty
far along, that are actually doing really cool things.
And obviously, there's support for new projects to sort of help continue to
bootstrap the ecosystem, help them enter, help them get developing.
And I really encourage anyone who's out there listening to like think of that
like right. This is this ecosystem is like sort of launched as a body in
motion, right? Like Sorbonne is not is not a platform that is ready to be
built on. It's a vibrant ecosystem that already has all these building blocks
that you can use today to keep building.
And there's all these support programs to help you do it.
There's a community to help you do it.
All the people on the call are sort of available, wonderful people.
And I think that there's just like these great opportunities for projects
to interoperate and really change the world.
And it's it's a big launch day.
I know that we also have the CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation.
Danelle Dixon is on the line.
And I really I think I just want to pass it to her.
Danelle, what are your thoughts today?
Well, there were so many amazing phrases used body in motion in the streets,
not the lab. This is not an unregulated casino.
All these things are awesome.
But mostly I just want to say I've never smiled so much during a Twitter
spaces or frankly, during any event that I've sat through listening,
because this is such an amazing thing to hear that all of you totally get
You get the fact that we're here for the reasons that we want to see
the world be more seamless and the world to not have the barriers
and the borders that exist with respect to the exchange of value
and the use of this technology.
And to hear you guys all talk about the work that you're doing and the work
that the internal team at the SDF is doing and the community together is doing.
And to hear it basically echo the mission and the strengths
that the SDF and that Stellar really are all about
has just been like one of the most amazing things.
So thank you guys for understanding what we're here for
and why we want you to be here.
We want to all come together to solve these real challenges in the world
and to solve them and meet people where they are,
not tell people what they should do.
And listening to all the different pieces that are already on Saurabhan
really shows us that this kind of an ecosystem with the ease of use
of the tools that are built not just by the folks at the SDF
but by everyone in the community really demonstrates the real growth
of how you come together to make things better.
This is such an exciting day for us to sort of achieve this
after several years of working together.
I know that it's been that we didn't start with smart contracts on Stellar
and to get to the place where we are today where I think it's better
and brighter and more remarkable.
Because we did wait and we got to this place where we wanted to hear
what people's needs were and we created this awesome opportunity
for all of us to be able to achieve the goals that we want.
Thanks to everyone who is here.
Thanks to everyone who is building.
Thanks to everyone who cares about the notion of really getting
to those everyday financial services for everyone,
no matter where they were born or what they have or what they don't have.
So that's what makes me so happy to be listening to this
and grateful for everyone, including the internal team,
but mostly the ecosystem who cares so much about what their passions are
and what their mission is.
Amazing. Yeah, thanks to Nell.
And thanks to everyone who joined this call,
both as a speaker and as a listener.
Again, it's a really exciting day.
I'm so happy that we're all here.
And it was really amazing to hear what everyone's up to.
I mean, it's just great to like sort of hear the voices,
hear the words, hear the projects, hear all about everyone's experience.
And I know that we'll have lots of opportunities to talk again in the future.
But I really appreciate you all being here.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Thanks, everyone. See you next time.