On October 20, 2025, a DNS configuration error at Amazon Web Services cascaded into a 15-hour outage affecting 113 cloud services and over a thousand companies. For most businesses, this meant inconvenience. For institutions running critical financial operations on affected systems, it meant something more serious.

The legal case for open blockchain networks

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

Enterprises can now adopt blockchain with confidence—ZK tools deliver financial privacy without sacrificing public ledger transparency. 

Your Paycheck Is Private. So, Why Isn’t Your Blockchain Payment?

Redefining Everyday Payments

Zero-knowledge proofs enable private, compliant, scalable blockchain applications. Discover zkTokens, zkLogin, zkKYC, zkVoting, and zkVM innovation on Stellar.

5 Real-World Zero-Knowledge Use Cases

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 

Learn how composability on Stellar works in practice, with a real DeFi case study using Soroban smart contracts, wallets, and yield protocols.

Composability on Stellar: From Concept to Reality 

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?

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.

An Updated Mandate for a Growing Stellar Ecosystem

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This week at Davos, representatives from traditional payment networks and open blockchain protocols shared a stage—not to debate replacement, but to discuss coordination.

The interoperability imperative: how traditional payment networks and open protocols will (finally) work together

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