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Stellar Community Fund-backed IRL check-ins let attendees create Stellar wallets via Privy or Meridian Pay and earn onchain IRL Points. IRL logged 1,320 Checkpoint photo booth portraits at Meridian 2025 in Rio with rewards tied to Stellar onboarding. Stellar Community Fund (SCF) supported IRL during the SCF Build Award period to run cultural activations that linked in-person attendance to onchain rewards on the Stellar network. The work focused on venues and art-led events where fast entry, mobile use, and simple onboarding determine whether participants engage. IRL operates across festivals, art spaces, nightlife venues, and community events, with a network that exceeds 73,000 people across multiple cultural hubs. The team targeted onboarding that would fit real-world event conditions, including long lines, limited time at entry points, and audiences that prefer non-technical language. The challenge: onboarding culture at scale, without talking about crypto. The approach: @privy_io wallets and @refraction_irl Touchpoints® on Stellar. Learn more about our partnership with Refraction at Meridian and Stellar House Miami 👇https://t.co/uW14ih6csk — Stellar (@StellarOrg) February 10, 2026 The activations used IRL Touchpoint check-ins to create wallets and record participation. Attendees either set up a wallet through Meridian Pay or created a Privy-powered Stellar account through an email or social login. The process had three steps as attendees scanned or tapped at the entrance, created an account, and then earned IRL Points recorded on Stellar.  Also, the onboarding process took under 30 seconds, enabling usage without interrupting venue operations. Earlier this year, we covered that Stellar launched SCF Growth Hack Cohort 1 to help mainnet teams run user acquisition campaigns aimed at real-world adoption.  Stellar Check-ins to Onchain Rewards At Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, IRL ran a photo-based activation with Checkpoint using Meridian Pay photo booths. The experience combined entry check-ins with artwork and a printed keepsake. IRL reported that attendees created a Meridian Pay account, took a portrait at a Future Primitive Checkpoint booth, received a physical print, and unlocked a small gift.  Across three stations featuring artwork by Filipa Aurelio, IRL recorded 1,320 portraits during the event. Each portrait supported onboarding into IRL through Meridian Pay and Checkpoint. In Miami during Art Basel, IRL ran a check-in and reward flow at Stellar House. Attendees created a Privy-powered Stellar account, checked in through the IRL Touchpoint, and earned IRL Points recorded on Stellar. The activation connected onboarding to a gallery experience curated by Refraction and to event programming for visitors on site.  IRL also enabled artwork collection through Meridian Pay for event attendees, linking digital access to in-person participation through the same onboarding channel. It cited Stellar’s transaction speed, low fees, and reliability under higher traffic as operational reasons for selecting the network for venue-based onboarding and rewards.  Additionally, IRL is expanding to other cities, including New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, Berlin, Singapore, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. CNF previously reported that the Stellar Development Foundation moved 2.7 billion XLM from its Growth 3 account to an Assets and Liquidity account under a new allocation framework. Growth accounts still hold 6.3 billion XLM, while product and innovation accounts hold 4.5 billion XLM. At the time of writing, XLM price was trading at $0.1532 , down 2% over 24 hours, with $123.2 million in trading volume.

By aggregating collective intelligence, this tool is able to capture real-time sentiment fluctuations and predictive tendencies of market participants, providing investors with unique market insights. The launch of this tool marks Intercontinental Exchange's further expansion in the fintech sector, aiming to help traders grasp the pulse of the market more accurately. By analyzing a large volume of user-generated prediction data, the Polymarket tool can identify potential trend reversal points and provide data support for investment decisions. The platform places particular emphasis on rapid response to unexpected events, enabling real-time tracking of how social hot topics impact market sentiment. Its dynamic visualization interface makes complex data intuitive and easy to understand, allowing users to analyze and compare long- and short-term cycles to grasp the evolution of market sentiment. Intercontinental Exchange stated that this tool will focus on serving institutional investors and individual traders with high sensitivity to market changes, helping users find certainty in volatile markets by providing differentiated sentiment indicators. The algorithm model will continue to be optimized in the future to improve prediction accuracy.

According to ChainCatcher, citing Jinse Finance, traders have fully priced in the possibility of a Federal Reserve rate cut in July, after the market previously expected the rate cut to occur in June.