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🚨 Stellar Philippines has approved $95,000 in Instawards grants across 19 domestic tech projects building on the Stellar network and Soroban smart contract platform to build out AI integrations, cross-border payment rails, and developer tooling. 👇 👉 Full Details: bitpinas.com/go/stellar-win

⚡ Another Builder Spotlight, another milestone shipped on Stellar! The Velo team shared its latest Instawards progress, showcasing new infrastructure designed to make building and operating Stellar applications easier. A few highlights from the demo: 🔹 Gas Policy Engine: New tooling to help manage transaction fee policies and simplify the payment of network fees. 🔹 Fee-Bump Relay Service: Infrastructure designed to help applications submit transactions while handling Stellar transaction fees more smoothly. 🔹 SDK & Dashboard: Developer tools and a dashboard to support integration, monitoring, and easier management of @StellarOrg applications. These updates focus on solving practical challenges developers face when taking their projects from prototype to production. Great progress from the @RunVeloDev team! 🚀 Looking forward to seeing more builders integrate and ship with these tools. #BuildOnStellar 🇵🇭

Meet our Philippines finalists. 🇵🇭 Tomorrow, these 10 teams will represent the Philippines on the final and biggest stage of the Stellar APAC Hackathon Grand Finale. Here's a look at what they've built: @stellarcelerity: A programmable disaster-disbursement rail on Stellar. When a verified typhoon signal fires, funds are released automatically to pre-registered farmers and cashed out to PHP, with every movement logged on-chain. @supportpijin: Universal Web3 liquidity powered by cellular networks, bringing digital payments to rural and underserved areas that rely on basic cell towers instead of stable internet. @paytrexure: A private treasury for Stellar payments, reconciled to fiat. It shields payments on-chain and emits one clean, accounting-ready receipt for a single payout or a full payroll run. @RunVeloDev: Infrastructure to build and operate Stellar apps without stitching the surrounding tooling together, connecting the workflows to build, verify, observe, pay, and settle. @OrizonAgents402: A decentralized orchestration layer where AI agents autonomously hire, pay, and verify each other to execute complex work. @UseSobre: A shared family wallet for overseas workers. Every deposit splits into the envelopes the household agreed on, the moment it arrives. @paiflow_xyz: A no-code Stellar surface that turns programmable payments into a drag-and-drop primitive. Sketch a flow on a whiteboard, ship it as a non-custodial Soroban contract in under 90 seconds. @pundarapp: An all-in-one decentralized financial platform on Stellar and Soroban that turns everyday spending into savings, investments, and a verifiable financial reputation. @palengkepay: Digital payments para sa palengke. Scan, pay, done, powered by Stellar. No merchant fees, no waiting times, no headaches. @PH_Pacta: A non-custodial Stellar wallet to hold, send, receive, and convert without giving up your keys. When a payment needs to be safe, send it as a Pact: staged, bond-backed, and provable on-chain. Tune in to @riseinweb3 tomorrow to show your support and watch them compete. 🚀 @PHI_Stellar @StellarOrg @BuildOnStellar

The APAC @StellarOrg Hackathon Grand Finale is here. 🌏 What started with hundreds of builders across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam now comes together as the Top 10 finalists from each country take the stage to compete for a share of the $60,000 prize pool. Join us live on July 31. 📍 @riseinweb3 #BuildOnStellar