Meridian 2022
as the organisers put it
Registration is now LIVE for Meridian 2022, a conference for experts in finance, policy and technology from our Stellar community and beyond. Join us in Rome, Italy for 3 days of learning and discussions. Meridian 2022 is an in-person event and is free with registration for everyone.
who it's for
smart contract developers, blockchain engineers, payments product managers, compliance officers, fintech founders and operators, humanitarian and financial inclusion practitioners, regulators and policy makers
topics
Soroban smart contracts platform; Rust WebAssembly smart contracts; transaction footprints for concurrency; state archiving and expiration; custodial versus noncustodial wallets; cash to crypto bridge networks; stablecoins and CBDC coexistence; cross-chain interoperability; AML and continuous KYC monitoring; digital identity for financial inclusion; blockchain sustainability beyond Bitcoin; humanitarian crypto use cases (Ukraine)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Founders Fireside Chat | Jed McCaleb, David Mazières | 28m |
Thirty-minute conversation that explains why Stellar avoids mining, how the Stellar consensus protocol uses quorum slices to secure non-cryptocurrency assets… | ||
| Crypto We Have a Diversity Problem | Adam Minehardt, Katerina Furtak, Karen Chang, Anino Emuwa | 30m |
LinkedIn data show crypto hiring is 70% men, 30% women (2018–2021) and women’s share falls to 25% last year; a study finds only 5 of 121 founders were women… | ||
| The Urgency of Doing Part 1 | Denelle Dixon | 24m |
Claims Italy becomes the first country outside the MPA to seat streamers in the national film industry association and explicitly names Netflix, Amazon Prime… | ||
| The Urgency of Doing Part 2 | Denelle Dixon | 19m |
Claims that the United States is leading a diplomatic push, coordinating with the African Union and partners via a special envoy who shuttles between Pretoria… | ||
| Outsider or Insider: Is Crypto Now Part of the Financial System? | Ronaldo Lemos, Ada Vaughan, Scott Beck, John Hensel | 37m |
Panel traces concrete moves: the SEC approves WisdomTree to issue 40 Act funds as digital securities on Stellar Ledger and Ethereum, and the first wtsy token… | ||
| Custodial vs Non-Custodial Wallets | Candace Kelly, Geoff Goodell, Alex Zinder, Kiel Dowlin | 42m |
Compares concrete tradeoffs: Ledger reports 5 million devices holding roughly 15–20% of crypto, while Wirex runs custodial rails in 40 countries plus a MPC… | ||
| The Strategic Importance of Cash for Crypto: Enabling Financial Access | Ronaldo Lemos, Denelle Dixon, Alex Holmes | 39m |
MoneyGram and the Stellar Development Foundation launch a cash⇄crypto bridge that turns physical dollars into USDC on Stellar at over 400,000 agent locations… | ||
| Soroban: A New Smart Contracts Platform | Tomer Weller | 13m |
Soroban is a Rust-written smart contracts platform native to Stellar with a WebAssembly runtime, a local sandbox for offline development, and built-in host… | ||
| Soroban Origins | Denelle Dixon, David Mazières | 29m |
Soroban is presented as a fresh on‑chain smart‑contracts platform built atop Stellar without changing consensus: WASM‑based contracts, separate “execution… | ||
| Hope or Hype: How Digital Innovation Will Unlock Economic Opportunities | Robin Newnham, Arunjay Katakam, Olayinka David-West, Marco Dell’Erba | 41m |
Panel argues specific wins and real limits: Nigeria rolls out e-Naira (Oct 2021) plus USSD and instant payments but uptake needs trust and literacy; M-Pesa… | ||
| Emerging Stronger from Crypto Winter Part 1 | Candace Kelly, Justin Rice | 21m |
Claim: the current downturn weeds out speculators and raises the ratio of builders, producing higher-quality Stellar Community Fund submissions and more… | ||
| Emerging Stronger from Crypto Winter Part 2 | Candace Kelly, Elisabeth Carpenter | 21m |
Claims that Circle doubles down on mainstream adoption and trust, citing major partnerships with Block Stripe and Robinhood and moved billions of dollars of… | ||
| Understanding MiCA: What's Next for the EU's Landmark Legislation | Ondrej Kovarik | 24m |
MiCA is now adopted after two years of negotiation and a confirming vote, with entry into force expected early next year and phased application later; it… | ||
| Interoperability = Cross-Chain | Yuriy Savchenko, Torsten Stüber, Luis Vaello, Jason Ma | 38m |
Panelists lay out concrete systems and numbers: a message-passing network that already connects 24 chains supported and enforces a $5M/day rate limit for… | ||
| Regulation: Crypto Killer, or the Key to Its Future | Candace Kelly, Caroline Pham | 33m |
A US regulator recounts six months of global meetings (Singapore, Seoul, London, Rome, IOSCO) and argues most crypto falls under commodity law, notes there are… | ||
| Creating a Digital Identity: Addressing Other Barriers to Financial Inclusion | Gabriel Bizama, Amit Sharma, Olayinka David-West, Victor Mapunga | 37m |
Report cites 1.4 billion unbanked and argues identity plus infrastructure are the real bottlenecks; biometric foundational ID and a policy that ties national… | ||
| Responding to Crisis with Urgency | Denelle Dixon, Carmen Hett | 16m |
UNHCR is piloting a financial gateway built on Stellar that moves USDC on Circle through a payout API into portable wallets hosted by the Stellar disbursement… | ||
| Crypto's Utility in Crisis: Ukraine Use Case | Denelle Dixon, Oleksandr Bornyakov | 18m |
Ukraine reports nearly 20 million users on Diia and deploys an offline digital ID that lets displaced people cross borders with a phone; an e-electronic aid… | ||
| Meeting the Humanitarian Need Through Digital Tools | Tori Samples, Shashank Rai, Emily Barnes, Jorge Fernandes | 39m |
Aid agencies report concrete outcomes: Building Blocks moves from a 100-person pilot to serving over 1 million people monthly, transferring more than $400M and… | ||
| Understanding Blockchain Sustainability Beyond Bitcoin | Jordan Edelstein, Kurt Fields | 18m |
A PwC-built framework applies a bottoms-up measurement of hardware, node networking and data transmission to quantify Stellar Core and Horizon energy use… | ||
| What It Means to Be Trusted and Trustless | Denelle Dixon | 18m |
Argues that a real system can be both trusted and trustless and cites concrete evidence: an open source public blockchain built for speed, low fees and… | ||
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