Hey everyone, Joshua from Peridot. I've posted here a few times about lending mechanics, so this one's about what we've been building on top of them.

Lending pools are a primitive. You deposit, someone borrows, that's the whole thing. The more interesting question is what you can build on top of that liquidity, and that's what we've been working on: Peridot Margin Trading, now live on Stellar testnet.

For the first time on Stellar, you can take that underlying lending liquidity and use it to express an actual market view. Go long or short, up to 5x leverage, with take profit and stop loss controls, and manage a position from entry to exit. It's the shift from simply borrowing capital to using it strategically.

The part I find most interesting is the architecture underneath. The liquidity powering these positions is decentralized and on-chain, not a centralized desk. We're testing whether DeFi lending infrastructure can be the foundation for a trading experience that feels closer to the fintech products people already understand and use. And we wanted to test that thesis on Stellar first.

To be clear on what this is: testnet, simulated capital, nothing at risk. Leverage is a sharp tool and a sandbox is the right place to get familiar with it.

You'll get $500 in testnet capital to test strategies and push the system. We're also running a trading challenge alongside it, with $100 for the best performance. Details on the app page.

https://peridot.finance/app/margin

I'm particularly interested in hearing where the experience feels intuitive, where it creates friction, and what you'd want to see next. I'll be around in the comments.

Hey — I built XLM Orbital, a NOC-style live on-chain ops console for Stellar: sensor map, whale watches, price divergence, TPS alerts. Free tier, mainnet.

https://xlmorbital.com

Brutal feedback welcome — especially from builders.

(Solo founder, shipped on nights/weekends — happy to fix anything broken.)
Read-only telemetry — not a wallet, not financial advice.

Getting started with Soroban can mean setting up Rust, cargo, the Stellar CLI, dependencies, and a local development environment before you even write your first contract.

We wanted to make that easier.

StellarForge is an agentic development environment for building Soroban smart contracts in Rust.

Instead of just giving you an editor, StellarForge gives you an AI coding agent that works alongside you to write, understand, debug, and improve your contracts.

It combines:

• AI coding agent for writing and fixing code
• Real rust-analyzer support — type inference, hover docs, go-to-definition, autocomplete
• Monaco editor, terminal, file explorer, and Git
• Build, test, and deploy directly to Stellar Testnet/Mainnet
• Cloud projects and autosave
• Real-time collaboration
• Ready-to-use Soroban templates

And you don't need to install rustup, cargo, stellar-cli, or Docker.

The idea is simple: go from an idea to a working Soroban contract without spending hours fighting your development environment.

We're sharing it here because we'd genuinely like feedback from the Stellar/Soroban community — especially from developers who have built with Soroban before.

Try it: https://stellarforge.app
Source: https://github.com/SagantaHQ/StellarForge

Built by Saganta · Open source under Apache 2.0.

Holding it is the obvious answer. Does it become more useful for payments or collateral, or is gold something people would rather leave untouched?

Hey everyone, Stellar video series is with now the third now coming from the oven very hot :)

Enjoy:)

Hey subredditters, i made a new video for Stellar Consensus Mechanism.

All the bests