What You Missed at the Stellar Meridian Conference

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The sold-out Stellar Meridian conference brought together developers, enterprises and global institutions to discuss the future of money. Here are three major announcements and breakthroughs you missed from the event in Rio de Janeiro. - Watch sessions from Stellar Meridian: https://meridian.stellar.org/sessions Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/sponsored-content/what-you-missed-at-the-stellar-meridian-conference https://stellar.org/blog/foundation-news/the-blueprint-at-meridian-2025

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0:00.0	The sold-out Stellar Meridian Conference recently took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
0:04.7	The event brought together some of the top companies in crypto and traditional finance,
0:09.2	all to discuss the future of money.
0:11.5	I was there broadcasting live with my CoinDesk colleagues.
0:14.5	We were speaking to developers, enterprises, and institutions innovating from within the stellar ecosystem.
0:20.6	Here are three big highlights from the event.
0:22.6	PayPal announced its decision to expand its PYUSD stable coin
0:26.6	onto the Stellar Network.
0:28.6	Here's Stellar Development Foundation President Jose Fernandez-Deponte
0:32.6	on what it means for users.
0:33.6	Users of stellar wallets anywhere.
0:35.6	Now they have a way, if you have a POSD and a Stellar
0:39.2	in a Stellar wallet, let's say, cheaper cash or Bitcoin.com, now you can send value to millions of
0:44.4	BEMO and PayPal users. And when they go live with their pay with crypto that they have announced,
0:49.2	they will be able to pay from a stellar wallets and millions of PayPal merchants.
0:53.8	Mercado, Bitcoin, Latin America's largest digital asset investment platform
0:57.6	announced that it will be issuing $200 million of tokenized, fixed income and equity financial
1:03.4	instruments on the stellar network with the Stellar Development Foundation's chief business officer
1:08.4	Raja Chakravorti saying,
1:10.4	Latin America is a key region
1:11.8	in global finance and does more real world assets move on chain, it's critical that the
1:16.6	stellar ecosystem continues to grow in this dynamic part of the world. And Red Swan announced
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