The 1st Stellar Conference, November 4th–5th in Mexico City

A new financial future is coming. We talked about it at Meridian.

At Meridian, we took payments to the next level.


Meridian was the first Stellar conference. It brought together everyone in the Stellar universe, alongside major financial institutions and industry experts, for two days of networking, learning, drinks, food, and fun. Attendees met talented, passionate people from around the globe in sessions designed to facilitate collaboration, creativity, and connection. It was a place to share new initiatives, new ideas, and new products. And it all happened in an incredible venue: the lush Proyecto Público Prim in Mexico City.

The Stellar network has been live for five years and has seen incredible growth, in both bull markets and bear. Operations on Stellar are up 25× since January 2018, and accounts are up over 10×. Together, we’re building a better, more accessible economic model. At Meridian, we celebrated the work we’ve all done, and laid the groundwork for the exponential growth still to come.

On the agenda: we addressed fundamental questions facing the network, like inflation and transparency. We discussed big challenges around adoption and marketing. We learned from economists and other experts, as well as from each other, in focused discussion groups and technical workshops. We announced new programs and services, and we did it all surrounded by the best and brightest in the Stellar ecosystem. 

The Stellar community brought its biggest ideas to Meridian. It’s the first step in building the future together.

Ideate

At Meridian, participants collaborated and shared ideas with other Stellar ecosystem stars in targeted discussion groups.

Connect

This was the first time that we brought together the global Stellar community.

Innovate

The brightest minds from around the world shared their visions of the future. We allowed plenty of time to talk through turning ideas into action.

Speakers

Frederic Rezeau

Founder, Litemint LLC

José Rodriguez

Director, Blockchain Land

Marco Montes Neri

CEO, Saldo.mx

Nitin Gaur

Director, IBM WW Digital Asset Labs

Denelle Dixon

Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation

Pavel Matveev

CEO, Wirex

Meinhard Benn

Founder, Satoshipay

Shakib Noori

CEO of M-Paisa, Roshan Telecom

Reuben Godfrey

Co-founder, GoodCash

Jed McCaleb

Co-Founder, Stellar Development Foundation

Carlos Hernandez

Venezuelan Economist & Author

Jaroslaw Nowotka

CTO, BitBond

Ifeoluwa "IO" Orioke

Chief Revenue Officer, Flutterwave

Marco Muñoz

Co-founder and CEO, Blockchain Academy Mexico

Arianna Simpson

Founder and Managing Partner, Autonomous Partners

Alberto Navarro

Head of Product, Arkangeles.co

Cole Diamond

CEO, Coinsquare

Scott Freeman

Co-Founder and Partner, JST Capital

Ernest V. Mbenkum

Founder and CEO, Interstellar Wallet and Exchange

Jase Wilson

CEO, Neighborly

V. Gowribalan

Co-Founder, GRIP Investments

Francisco Rivadeneyra

Senior Research Advisor, Bank of Canada

Maria Gaitanidou

Head of Compliance, Coins.ph

Tyler van der Hoeven

Founder, Tiny Anvil

Eric Kryski

CEO, Bidali

Austin Trombley

Vice President -- Blockchain & AI, Franklin Templeton

Amit Sharma

CEO and Founder, FinClusive Capital

Sergey Yusupov

Founder, Apay

Teck Chia

Head of Binance X

Orbitlens

Dan Doney

CEO, Securrency

Roeland de Jong

Founder, WYCKX

Lisa Nestor

Senior Strategist, Stellar Development Foundation

Fernando R. Vera

CEO & Co-Founder, LUMIT

Oscar Elizondo

Co-founder, BICCOS

Konstantin Richter

CEO and Founder, Blockdaemon

Thomas Scaria, CFA

Strategy Lead, Wyre

Hugo Cuevas-Mohr

CEO, The Platinum Network

Wouter Arkink

Stellar Torch | A Stellar Day

Saulo Santos "b1tcc"

Lumenaut

Gabrielle Patrick

CEO & General Counsel, Knabu.me

Nicolas Girard

CEO and Founder, OXIO

Nic Bayerque

Co-founder, Settle Network

Ian McAfee

CEO, Shift Markets

Pablo Perez

General Partner, Leap Global Partners

Craig McGregor

Co-Founder and CEO, DSTOQ

Sergio Mello

CEO, Tangem

Danny Tamez

Founder and CEO, Ilmatic

Laszlo Giricz

Founder and CEO, Poseidon

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Proyecto Público Prim

This was not your typical conference space—the architectural details and cascading greenery are inspiring.

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