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Monthly Recap: May
Recorded: May 29, 2025 Duration: 0:36:45Space Recording
Short Summary
Stellar's recent activities highlight significant growth and partnerships, including a hackathon in Mexico City, new funding initiatives through HANA wallet and Dogstar, and strategic hires like Amir at SDF, all contributing to the ecosystem's expansion and real-world applications.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Raph, are you there?
Hey, Lins.
Hey.
I was going to say I got to get J-Rom up on stage two.
Every month, I'm like, I'm going to be so prepared for the recap.
I'm going to write down things as they happen in the months to come.
And it's going to be so good.
And then every month I'm like, oh God, it's here again.
I always think that there's less that happens in a month.
And then I start writing everything that happened.
And I'm like, holy fuck. I don't know if you have to swear but yes
I think that was worth working on but yeah easy to wrap that the algorithm's gonna kick
us down now we're not gonna have any viewers are you over there spewing spewing curse words
yeah yeah it's fine I was gonna say, I want to make sure that we get the main account on in here too.
So we can boost visibility a little bit,
but yeah,
excited to be back.
I also,
every month I'm like,
you know what I should do?
Figure out how to play music for the first three minutes of this,
but we don't have to BS our way until people join.
We can sing something.
We can make a melody.
Yeah. Well, you know what I've never
done? Figure out how to play music at the beginning
of this.
We can BS it
until people join.
It can happen.
What would be our theme song? What would be our little
jingle?
Oh, God. On the spot like that?
At our All Hands meeting earlier today,
Diplo was playing to lead in, and I thought
that was fun and funky.
We should put out a little contest for a little jingle, stellar jingle.
Yeah, what jingle should we play for the monthly recaps?
I was also thinking we could lean into the Meridian theme.
There's this song by Sophie Tucker called Brazil, and it's very cute and fun.
And it's a good little samba song.
So that could be a good one anyway we have a lot to cover should we start i guess i'm starting should i start go for it
all right so the way this works is the way it's worked in months past if you're new here
raf jrome and i each do one big. And then we try to do a lightning round of all the small stuff that also happened in
the ecosystem.
My big story this month was Consensus Toronto.
We had a massive presence at this conference this year.
And someone was asking me like, oh, why did you all choose Toronto to like really show
up and show out?
And I was like, you know, what actually happened is we just kept sort of adding things. It was like, oh, you know, we're going to sponsor the main conference. So we should
do this. And like, oh, we're going to have a builder somewhere around it. So we should do
this. And then all of a sudden we wound up with 15 different things with 35 developers, with eight
different speaking slots, with multiple media interviews. And it just, it snowballed so fast.
media interviews and it just, it snowballed so fast. So consensus Toronto was the busiest
conference I've ever been a part of. It was crazy. So run through some of the big highlights.
The first one I'm going to start with is the builder summit. This was Teague who is on dev
marketing with me. It was his brainchild and just massively supported by Kim. It was our first ever kind of a working
experience summit for devs. We brought in lots of ecosystem projects. It was just magic seeing
everyone connect and get to know some of the folks from SDF and get to know each other.
It was so great. We had programming sessions with DevRel. So there was technical workshops,
there was live demonstrations and
a full demo day from the projects themselves. We had three side events, which included a dinner
with a TikTok famous chef named Su Sur Lee. And the food was out of this world. I don't think
I've ever seen J-Rome happier in my entire life. So that was really cool. And then we went go-karting,
which J-Rome also won and he has the receipts to prove it. So I've also never seen him that happy. And then we went to a Blue Jays game, which I was not at,
but it sounded fun. We had media interviews. We had community building. We just did so much
at this conference. We sponsored Multi-Chain Day. We sponsored Solana Snapshot. I'm going to be
putting out clips of some of Tomer's and Garen's best takes from the panels they were on. Really, really strong panels from them. It was amazing. I have to shout out Wrapped. Multichain
Day is always a great experience for us. And yeah, it was just crazy busy. So anything to add from
you two? Did I miss anything? My favorite element of the Builder Summit was that we had, there was two moments.
One was when we got to grill Lindsay in an interview.
That was fun.
Jay did a great job with those questions.
And then I got Jay and Linz to join me for a pickleball game against the Bonk Advisory.
And that was pretty cool.
It's fun to share your passion with other people
and people that you work with every day.
So it was cool to see them on the court.
And Lindsay talked a lot of trash before the game and held her own on the court.
Yeah, J-Roy, what was your favorite part, actually?
I mean, there was a lot, obviously, being the champion of the go-kart race event.
I talked a lot of trash and backed it up.
So that was good.
But just one thing, I mean, Stellar does a lot of trash and backed it up so that was good but just one thing i mean stellar
does a lot of events all around the world and i i know we've said it before but i'll just reiterate
you guys got to go check one of these out if you're ever close i mean this builder summit
was super super cool um even if you weren't a dev i mean there was a lot a lot going on there
um but the k1 speed event obviously super. I got a lot of fun little interview footage
from after people were done with their races. So I'll try and get that put together,
slack on that a little bit. But learn we maybe need to have like a questionnaire on driving
skills for developers before we let them get behind the wheel. Some people, I'm not sure if
they had only played a video game before and
had never driven. Also, fun fact, K1 Speedway lets you drink and drive. It says very specifically,
like you have to be not choice in, in more official terms, but I was floored. We had an
open bar. Yeah, yeah, no, it worked, but I don't think that was the reason for some of these
people's driving skills, but I mean, it was cool. It don't think that was the reason for some of these people's driving skills.
But I mean, it was cool.
It got to meet people in person, help a lot of new builders to Stellar, learn about the
ecosystem, like what it needs and what projects it can leverage to build what it's working
My man Armando was looking for something to build.
And Jane from the product team was there and she mentioned an idea and it was kind of similar to something that I had envisioned for something in the future for Luma Loop for our
project tracker to kind of so people could kind of see if a project's still active and kind of
what's going on so I shared that with him and he actually ended up building it he didn't win
anything on the stellar track at the hackathon just because I think it was mostly focused on
UX and so while this was a super cool project and needed in the ecosystem it didn't really fit the win anything on the Stellar track at the hackathon just because I think it was mostly focused on UX.
And so while this was a super cool project
and needed in the ecosystem,
it didn't really fit the title of the Stellar track
at the EZA consensus hackathon.
But it was super cool to see.
I mean, the main conference was cool.
We spent some time over there with the hackathon,
except for whoever put the uh shit coins inside stickers
next to the stellar logos on the networking lounge i will i will find you i had to take those off
um but no overall super cool it was first time kind of being in a like a developer space like
that so like seeing the teams work till like two three in the morning sleeping on the couch just
like hammering out these ideas um just super cool to see and be a part of.
Yeah. I also heard there was a fun Mario Kart tournament that I missed, a late night Mario Kart tournament with orders of pizza and beers and bottles of wine. So it was honestly, like,
it was so much fun and so much work. And I have just never done that much of a conference in my
life. These conferences are always crazy. Like, I have a joke. I mean, I think you all have seen it, but I take princess time at every conference.
And princess time is when there's no screens allowed. There's no stimulation allowed. I'm
not there. My brain is not imbibing any new information during princess time. It's not
allowed. So music is okay, but nothing else. Mostly it's silence and I don't have to stay awake for it.
There was no time for princess time. It was 16 hour days. Yeah.
This is crazy. It was very, very overwhelmed.
This one was even worse.
What are you gonna say? Raph? Sorry.
I just said it was, it was very long, very long days, but very, very worth it. Very rewarding.
Jade touched on it.
Extremely. And anyways, Raf, do you want to lead us into the next big story, which was
Raf and I basically going from Toronto to Mexico City?
Yeah, I forgot my passport in Edmonton, so I had to fly back home to go get my passport.
But we jumped in Mexico City.
This was an event during Ledger Leaders Week.
And essentially, we had a stellar hackathon during the event.
And this was kind of a different kind of hackathon.
It was related to marketing and creating content.
So we had a lot of people from Latin America and different countries jump in.
And it was like
hybrids they had a bunch of virtual virtual sessions a big like four-hour stream um so we
were able to present and assist and then pretty cool is that you know going to mexico city we're
able to connect with people in that our our ecosystem partners in that region. So we met up with Marcus from Blend
and Ernesto from Unilavio
and then potentially new partners
like Brandon from Hoops,
which is doing some really cool projects.
So very, very cool trip.
Shout out to the winners of that hackathon.
I'm Ankrita Tulana Digital
and the Ether2's baby podcast
and the cinematic video by bastion
so the the content that we got from the hackathon was really creative we had some mascots we had
some baby podcasts uh it was it was cool it was it was different to see everyone's take on it and
it was cool that it was centered around real products built on seller like ducaf and etherfuse yeah i had a lot of fun with this it came together so quickly i cannot thank myosin
and stuff from grow with guava enough coolest part for me was that there was about four to five
hours of programming every day on web3 marketing and and growth marketing in general a lot of that
like probably 70 to 80% was done in Spanish.
And so that's kind of the first time that those resources have been available in a different
language and seeing folks get really excited and learning in their native language and just having
access to this material was so cool. And then also having an event where it was hybrid online
and in person, which was great. So a lot, a lot of access, but then also working with ether fuse to actually come up with marketing ideas.
So something concrete that folks could walk away with, or like give to a project, like
these lots of times hackathons end and the projects end. And this was like a way of doing
a hackathon where you're actually making an impact on something that exists while you're
getting to learn. And so I just think Steph did an incredible job
of thinking about how people can learn
and walk away with real things.
And it was so much fun.
She pulled it together so quickly.
It was so, it was just,
I was blown away by how much fun it was.
So massive, massive shout out to them.
Raph and I had a great time in Mexico City.
Y'all should go visit.
It's a great place to be.
I made him go to the same cafe multiple days in a row because I loved it so much.
The pastries and coffee there are unbeatable.
It was great.
I'm jealous.
But yeah, it's funny hearing Raph trying to pronounce some of these Spanish words.
I bet that was interesting with the Canadian down there trying to speak some Spanish.
The French Canadian.
I speak no Spanish.
Yeah.
His pronunciation and understanding of Spanish is just messed up from multiple different lingual perspectives.
We've established even his take on the English.
Some English words are not quite correct.
Yeah, Raph actually doesn't have a native language.
Yeah.
That's what I've learned.
I have two second languages.
Yeah.
That's how you say it.
But yeah, so lots of travel.
So my story for the month or something a little bit longer to talk through that I wanted to
mention was there are some, I guess we could call them
user acquisition competitions and incentives going on right now. So the two I wanted to
highlight are, I'm going to say HANA wallet. Lindsay, would you say it HANA or HANA? We
just made fun of Raf, so I don't want to get this wrong.
It's HANA wallet.
HANA. Okay, cool. Yeah.
I would say HANA.
Yeah, I know. I feel like I've been saying HANA, but now I. Okay, cool. Yeah. I would say HANA.
Yeah, I know.
I feel like I've been saying HANA, but now I looked at it and I was like, I'm pretty sure that should be HANA.
So, okay, yeah.
So HANA wallet in partnership with Balanced is offering up to 30K of rewards. And how it works is you participate in various tasks to earn points or XP.
Things like connecting your HANA wallet,
you do daily check-ins, referring people,
like the normal type stuff,
but then they have this tie-in with Balanced
where you can earn a lot of XP
by depositing XLM as collateral
and then using that to mint their BNUSD,
which can go across many different chains that they support. And then you can deposit that BNUSD, which can go across many different chains that they support.
And then you can deposit that BNUSD into a savings account and earn over 14% APY.
So you don't get XP for that part, but you do get that nice juicy APY.
So it's a real cool way to kind of get introduced to the balanced product and using the HANA
wallet.
I set mine up.
I'm in there i'm not going to
tell you how well i'm doing in this competition but um you know it's a pretty cool process if
you're familiar with fx dao like that whole process of depositing xlm and kind of minting
a stable coin from that it's very similar it's just now when you mint that uh that stable coin
there's now a savings uh vehicle that you can deposit that to to earn that 14% APY.
So if you guys want to check that out, that is at rewards.hanawallet.io. And they're calling that
the Stellar Summer Rewards Program. So I guess we're officially in summer. I don't know. I relate
that to when my kids get out of school and today's the last day of school. So that's like the official
launch of summer for me. So besides Hana, there is Dogstar.
If you're not familiar with Dogstar,
it's kind of like a gamified trading experience on Stellar
to try and teach people about the various parts of the protocol,
whether it be lending pools or just the built-in decks,
stuff like that.
So they launched a $20,000 prize pool
and they've added a lot of
new stuff recently. So even if you've participated in the past in a dog star round, they start new
rounds periodically. Go check it out. They've got a lot of new stuff going on. And that runs now
through June 21st. So that's a pretty cool way. It's no, it's different from the Hana one in that no,
there's no element of your own assets that you need to put up. They basically kind of sponsor
you some assets and then you use those within the network to try and basically earn more money.
And then you actually do get paid out real asset by the sponsor at the end. But so this is a
competition with 20 K on top of that
existing stuff so pretty cool stuff you can go check that out at dogstarcoin.com so those are
my two for some cool user acquisition stuff going on in the stellar ecosystem dogstar is kind of
interesting because it gives free money every week like essentially it's like a no there's no risk
for you you literally jump in and you participate and you get a, if you do well,
you get a spot or a portion of the prize pool.
So 20 K for participating throughout the month is a massive price full and
hoping to see more people be able to jump into these, these new protocols.
Yeah.
And the, the honor rewards program program does have you don't earn any
extra credits or anything but they do have a tie-in to aquarius um and then dog star and then also
token tails um so you can check that out on the honor rewards part but yeah they're all kind of
in one kind of program together to try and try and spur some for some adoption so they're
lining up promotions at the same time because i I also saw that Token Tails is doing a Tails
airdrop during this time.
Yeah, and they're part of kind of the same thing.
The same, yeah, same with Aquarius.
They have their own thing going on.
It's just not a, you know, a big 30K
or 20K prize pool thing in your face.
So I didn't, they are involved,
but I didn't have time to go to go through all of
those you know the the 30 000 20 000 usdc you know people people jump at the chance for that stuff so
i figured i'd mention those yes that is part of the wider user acquisition pilot so trying to make
it fun and engaging to actually do do things in defy on stellar i think that's the overall goal
and this is kind of a fun way of doing that.
So yeah, everybody's all about the points.
You know, here's a, here's a points program.
Very easy tasks to do.
So yeah, go check it out.
Yeah.
Raph, are you participating in that at all?
Or is it just you?
Are we participating in it together?
As in you and J-Rome or you you and me because i'm not sure i'm
allowed to compete we should we should do a live session next week and and do the see if we can do
the user acquisition together oh i would love to do that yeah we've been talking about that actually
just doing more stuff live so that folks can see how to participate um because that's fun for us
and fun for you hopefully you as in the collective you listening
not you as in raf and jrome everything's fun for them yeah excited to see what happens with the
the user acquisition program stuff yeah please join but don't don't join too much because i want
my share of that yeah that's what i was wondering when jrome when you're like i want to talk about
this to get people involved i was like do you really want to get people involved?
No, I do it for the greater good of the ecosystem. Oh, he's a giver. That's so nice.
Well, we are actually on time. Ready for lightning round? Thunder round as Raf calls it.
I'm going to lead off with the first two.
And they're actually kind of in their nice segue from the user acquisition pilot because it's more ways to earn money.
The first is an Aquarius security competition. Aquarius is offering 110K for finding bugs in its stellar based AMM.
The audit contest runs until June 18th. If you'll remember,
we just recently did one of these to secure Blend B2. This is in a similar vein to that.
So if you are a security person or a researcher or in general interested in bug bounty competitions,
go compete in that. And speaking of, OpenZeppelin is also announcing a bounty program that one is on immunify it is
looking for critical vulnerabilities in the smart contracts library the bounty for that is 25k usd
so there is opportunities for you out there for those of you that are into cyber security into
the research side to hop in to make things on the network better, and also to
get a little bit of cash. So again, Aquarius is 110K, OpenZeppelin is 25K. Links to both
will be in the Build On Stellar channel and tweeted regularly. Yeah, go find, go compete,
go have fun. Raph, you're up.
I was going to say the OpenZeppelin's been on fire. They released their NFT standard two weeks ago.
I think it's ERC 721 compatible or something of sorts.
But you can go and mint your own NFTs within the contract wizard.
And they have new functions like upgradable contracts and batch minting and auto indexing that it supports.
batch minting and auto indexing that it supports aquarius dal the uh there's some new proposals
Aquarius DAO.
from the aquarius team that look to kind of change significantly how aquarius rewards are structured
so the one thing is there's something to change how bribes work so it's going to fund bribes
directly from amm fees so essentially as an AMM generates fees,
a portion of those fees generated would go to incentivize people to vote for
specific pools.
So that's kind of interesting.
And then there is a new proposal for a dampening curve that reduces vote,
vote boost multipliers as bribes increases,
just to make sure that projects aren't king making the
aqua wards and looking to give opportunities to everyone so those are two new proposals from the
Aquarius team there is another one that came out today from someone else I'm not sure what it is
anyways go check out the Aquarius governance site for more information. Privy started the month integrated Stellar. These are,
this is a team that I got to meet in at Stellar house in New York. Very interesting. Essentially,
they allow you to tie in a wallet and to kind of your, your email or your, your, your, your email
or your Google off. And then now you can sign transactions with your email,
your phone number or your Google Auth.
So again, it helps abstract wallet signing
and then gives really cool ways for developers
to get people to use their applications
without having to understand the underlying wallets
and the tech needed specifically for Stellar.
So chain abstraction is definitely one of their fortes. Something else that we've built this week,
sorry, this month was the Stellar Idea Bank. And you can find it in the developer discord.
It's a whole list of different ideas that can help you launch your next hackathon idea,
or maybe your next project for the community fund. Just kind of if you have an idea, put it out there. And if you want to
look through ideas that others have put as well, there's tons there. Join the discussion.
This one, this part of news I had to ask for permission to say because they haven't made an
official announcement yet. kind of announcement.
They did it in their Discord that they kind of published today.
But the Orbit CDP team has hit mainnet.
And Orbit CDP allows you to issue stable coins that are backed by collateralized assets.
So the peg is maintained by smart contracts
and Oracle price feeds.
Think kind of like something like MakerDAO.
Right now you can participate, is maintained by smart contracts and Oracle price feeds. I think kind of like something like MakerDAO.
Right now you can participate, start to participate within their blend pool.
And that can be accessible through the blend.capital website.
But yeah, these stable coins allow for, you know,
simple swaps on Stellar AMMs.
You know, you can deposit these stable coins
into yield apps or spend them on
Chimes for FX or on an off ramp through partners. So again, allows you to have less risk and
participate with these kind of synthetic stable coins. Nor Nor is a ZK language that kind of abstracts the complexities of building on ZK, on zero knowledge.
So we actually participated,
I'm assuming the foundation helped fund this,
but essentially we are, there's a 200K pool
to help fund open source tooling for the Noor ZK language.
And there are submissions that are currently there for stellar
uh the selected projects for that 200k uh grant funding will be selected by may 30th which is
tomorrow so hopefully more that we see here especially with protocol 23. um so yeah zk unlocks
a lot of new cool tools for developers.
Something that just like hot off the press from like 10 minutes ago,
it just passed through, it was very interesting.
I'll publish it to Twitter in a sec,
but there is a crypto card provider called the rain
that just added supports for Stellar.
So Stellar stable coin link Visa card.
So something that I am excited about for Stellar this year is more cards access.
So essentially you can spend your Stellar USCC anywhere.
That's it for me.
Are you tired?
That was a lot.
We should have broken those up more, I guess.
It's one to the next to the next.
Lightning round, but it's just Raph actually doing the thunder thing.
Yeah.
You just having princess
time over there on mute and like all the rest of us yeah exactly i didn't get to have it a
consensus my princess time is happening live yeah um so more kind of on that payment side of things
there's a company called blind pay and they do payment infrastructure for dell for devs and they launched stellar usdc
support so these guys were in toronto super super slick product and i could go you know i could try
and explain this uh via words on this twitter space and it wouldn't really make a bunch of
sense to you but uh we get a lot of payment companies on stellar but this one's going to be
one of the special ones i think So they have like lightning quick settlement
into a ton of different local payment rails,
built-in compliance controls, US virtual accounts,
like all the normal stuff,
but it's a super, super slick interface.
And it's made for devs.
It's not just like a UI that you go use.
You know, devs can build on top of this.
So definitely worth checking out.
Like I said, the team, top-notch.
They were in toronto super cool
guys and great products so you can check that out at blindpay.com and then i've got one that's kind
of hilarious to to talk about so tomer tomer made a tweet about the uh the max tps on stellar
increasing by almost 2x and this is kind of funny and ironic coming from Tomer.
I mean, he just kind of posted a link to the discussion on GitHub or something that kind
of had the proof of the test.
But I think the quote from Toronto from like his hot take and excuse my language if there's
any young people, it was like, TPS is shit.
Your TVL is shit. It was kind of like TPS is shit. Your TBL is shit.
It was kind of like his everything is shit take,
hot take on everything.
So it was kind of funny for him to post something about TPS.
But alas, Stellar Core can now process
almost two times the transactions it could before.
But I think there's more coming on that front.
We've talked a lot about kind of increasing throughput
on Stellar a lot recently.
So I think that's just kind of the tip of the iceberg.
But always good to see that we could bump that up if we need to.
So and another thing, Ralph kind of hit one thing that was hot off the press.
Another thing hot off the press is Hot Wallet integrating Blend.
is Hot Wallet integrating Blend.
So Blend, of course,
kind of the golden child
lending and borrowing protocol on Stellar right now.
It was just announced today.
So Hot, of course, popular Telegram-based wallet.
They announced support for the Blend pool
so you can go directly into lending and borrowing on Blend
right from your Hot Wallet.
Normally, I would hesitate to mention something like this
before trying it myself, but the hot team has been doing a great job adding features at a killer pace.
So kudos to them. I've got confidence that that's going to work great. And of course,
that takes advantage of stuff that came in Blend V2 that allows wallets to easily integrate with
that. So we're kind of seeing the fruits of the Script3 team's labor with Blendv2
kind of come to life with that hot wallet integration.
And I can't say who I was talking to earlier
on Discord and DMs,
but I think there's some more coming soon
with other wallet integrations with Blend.
So Blend on the come up for sure.
We love to Blend.
Blend one, Blend. So couple more foundational side announcements meridian 2024 2025 sorry wow 2025 registration is live it is september 17th
and 18th in rio de janeiro so we are headed to brasil developer and student discount is $50 and early bird tickets are $150. You can pay
in cash or USDC. The other thing that was published this month was a case study on GIZ.
GIZ, which is the German government alongside Syrian hospital workers, used Stellar to replace
a slow, costly, and manual payroll system with fast, low-cost digital
payments.
So it's actually a blockchain in the real world.
Over $1 million in salaries were dispersed to 900 hospital workers using USDC and saving
an estimated 400K euros monthly.
And employees now receive on-time payments with 100% preferring the new system over the old cash-based process.
And that's across several metrics.
This came out of a pilot project with 30 employees and is now expanded to 1,000 employees.
And my favorite part about this case study is it details how it uses local money transfer services,
transfer services, aka hoalas, to allow that cash out process to be seamless. What this points out
aka Hualas, to allow that cash-out process to be seamless.
is that it's possible to use local solutions and build things on the ground in communities
where it really matters. So really cool. Check out the case study. Last thing from the foundation
side, at least in this part, is we had the Q1 quarterly report. There was real growth in Q1 with 942K active wallets.
So we're getting so close to the 1 million mark
and 3.4 billion in RWA related payments
across healthcare, payroll, and finance.
A lot of that, of course, led by Franklin Templeton,
who we love.
So yeah, check out the quarterly report.
Back to you, Jay.
All right, let's rip into these real quick. So we got a new website for everyone's favorite healthy meme on
Stellar. Of course, that is Kale. We have kale on Stellar.com. Shout out to Boxy for getting that
up for us. And we also got a new thing coming out from Enrique. Enrique is always cooking.
He teased something called crypto.farm. And he described that as,
let me, let me get this right. Teased it as farming on autopilot. So today in discord,
he also dropped another tidbit about other projects, being able to integrate it for their
users and earning a portion of the fees. So some pretty cool sounding stuff there. Enrique's always got
some cool stuff in the works. And then one more for you, Lindsay. Then we have one of the most
important ones to go to last. Yes, I want to shout out Danielle, who is our new ambassador growth
lead. She's going to work with the ambassador program and the presidents of each chapter to build those communities on the ground. So we're excited to have more going on across the
world in our different chapters and to get more support happening. There's going to be some new
ones launching soon that I'm pumped about. And yeah, just a lot of growth in that arena. So
we're excited to welcome Danielle. Yeah. And on that same note, we have some huge news for the ecosystem.
Everybody knows him. Everybody loves him. Our boy Amir is now an official part of SDF. He is the
community support manager. He's going to be doing pretty much the same stuff he's been doing for a
long time, and now he just has the SDF label, but he's also our man on the inside now. But he's been doing for a long time and now he just has the SDF label, but he's also our man on the inside now.
But he's been a part of the stellar community for a long time,
similar to Raf and I,
and he'll get to kind of deepen the community support and work on growth from
within SDF itself.
So I know we could all say something about Amir and I actually,
I pinged him on discord.
He says he's in an ecosystem meeting right now.
So he probably is on,
has the space on mute.
But we all got love for Amir.
And we're happy to see him finally get a role.
Yeah.
It's great that he's getting paid for the late night calls, right?
We, the Friday night messages about, does this work for SCF?
does this work for scf and now he's he's salaried so let's go amir
And now he's salaried.
So let's go, Amir.
uh finally wanted to shout out the community demos that happened this morning if you want
to go check them out they're on the stellar org twitter um we'll also be in istanbul at the end
of june here for istanbul blockchain week so if you want to come to the conference and come say hi or participate in the hackathon,
we'd love to see you.
Same with Cairns.
We'll be in Cairns.
Also, a special shout out
to the Stellar West Africa conference.
It's happening May 31st.
It seems like it's a whole lineup
of really cool speakers.
Really cool seeing what you guys are doing
and looking forward to seeing the pictures
and the talks posted on social.
So yeah, I think that's it. Lads, we did it. We did it. Four minutes over.
I'm so proud. Perfect timing. Cause it's like kids last day of school is about to get out.
So I'm about to hop on my bike and go pick up kids from school. So we're going to pick up kids
on your bike. Well, I mean, they have their bikes come on it's not like i don't have pegs on the front and back this isn't like the 90s that's actually what i was picturing
no one of those little um cart things with the no no e-bike with with like seats on it no no
like an actual amish style bicycle that's so gross yeah yeah good stuff yeah rap venture we got a lot of cool stuff coming up in
june so i'm excited it never the fun never stops can we also start promoting maybe we uh i guess
it's kind of finalized now can we maybe talk about the hackathon stuff we're doing next three months
or no we can make a separate space for that well i mean we can, we can talk about, I'm going to be at Berlin Blockchain Week.
I'll be at the Funding the Commons Hackathon.
At Istanbul Blockchain Week,
our DevRel team alongside Raf and J-Rome
and DevMarketing is going to be doing
a full-on hackathon.
Huge shout out to Ryzen for organizing that, by the way.
And then in ETHCC,
we'll be doing a hands-on workshop
for the OpenZeppelin tooling.
So if you're a dev and you're in Europe, please come say hi and find us.
Yeah, for sure.
Especially for the CAN event.
If you're anywhere near there, Multi-Chain Day, we'd love to see you there.
Come by the booth.
We'll have a booth at Multi-Chain Day.
We'd love to see you there for sure.
Yeah, I'm going to shout it out.
Just like we are working with SCF
and launching some virtual hackathons
for each month of June, July, and August.
And these are composability hackathons,
so essentially building on projects that already exist.
So we will announce the projects
that we've been working with soon.
But if you are a hackathoner and are looking for virtual opportunities,
these are going to be two-week-long hackathons
to build on what's there on Stellar.
So looking forward to share more with you soon.
Yay.
Okay, are we done for real for real now?
Yeah, we are done now.
Okay, you're not going to continue making J-Rome
spend time away from his children, Raph?
That's right.
I can pedal real fast.
Thanks, y'all.
We'll see you next month.
I'll probably be exactly as prepared as I was for this one, for being honest.
Exactly.
It comes together either way.
We got this.
It does.
And we have fun, and that's what's important.
Yeah.
All right.
Bye, everyone.
Thanks, guys thanks see you later
