Verify RISC Zero zkVM execution inside a Stellar smart contract. Step-by-step guide to generating proofs off-chain and validating them on-chain with Stellar using Groth16.

Verifying RISC Zero Execution In A Stellar Smart Contract

Open by Default, Private When Needed: Compliance-Friendly Privacy On Stellar

Discover how IRL and Stellar’s SCF Build Award quietly onboarded thousands onchain through cultural activations at Meridian Rio and Stellar House Miami.

IRL × Stellar: Bringing Culture Onchain, Invisibly

Meridian Pay is a smart wallet built on Stellar that eliminates seed phrases and transaction fees. Using passkey authentication and smart contracts, it delivered seamless blockchain transactions to 1,000+ users at Meridian 2025.

Building Meridian Pay: A Scalable Smart Wallet on Stellar

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

Art 🤝 Smart Contracts: NFTs at Meridian 2025

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

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