{"id":559,"date":"2022-05-04T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/?p=559"},"modified":"2022-05-04T06:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:15:42","slug":"stellar-blockchain-upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/stellar-blockchain-upcoming-events.html","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Financial System of the Future with Stellar Blockchain: Upcoming Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) will hold a discussion on May 6 at 2:00 pm Central Time about how companies are developing blockchain solutions in Latin America and how they are managing the ecosystem, democratizing access to financial services for users, developers and local entrepreneurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, blockchain technology in Latin America has moved from being a concept and a potential idea to supporting companies and start-ups that are creating solutions with positive effects to deal with problems related to inflation, expensive remittances and financial exclusion in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who isn&#8217;t aware of it yet &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/event.techstars.com\/event\/ISjgGSOvif\" rel=\"dofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Techstars Blockchain Startup Weekend<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Mexico City will take place the weekend of May 20-22. The SDF-sponsored event offers a unique opportunity for startups, entrepreneurs and developers to join forces with the blockchain community and drive innovation for businesses in Latin America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Stellar Development Foundation and other participants<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahead of Startup Weekend, register <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stellar.org\/events\/construyendo-el-futuro-del-sistema-financiero-con-blockchain\" rel=\"dofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in time to join the next SDF event on May 6, featuring startup teams:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AirTM, a Mexican financial services company (recall that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/stellar-development-foundation-airtm.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stellar Development Foundation invested $15 million in AirTM<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2021<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">);<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-561 \" src=\"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stellar-event-intext-picture-1024x282.png\" alt=\"airTM logo\" width=\"861\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stellar-event-intext-picture-1024x282.png 1024w, https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stellar-event-intext-picture-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stellar-event-intext-picture-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/stellar-event-intext-picture.png 1524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Settle, which operates cryptocurrency payment infrastructure in several countries;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vibrant, a cryptocurrency wallet widely used by Argentines.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Built on Stellar - Vibrant\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WL1zgBMAFxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) will hold a discussion on May 6 at 2:00 pm Central Time about how companies are developing blockchain solutions in Latin <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/stellar-blockchain-upcoming-events.html\" title=\"Creating the Financial System of the Future with Stellar Blockchain: Upcoming Events\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-wallet.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}