🔗 Blockchain Founder @PaltaLabs, @SoroswapFinance & @DeFindex_ 🚀 Building DeFi protocols on @StellarOrg 💸 Yield, swaps & real-world utility
Santiago - Rio de Janeiro
Joined October 2019
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Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Between the apps that hold people's money and DeFi, there is a layer. @SoroswapFinance routes the swaps, @defindex_ runs the yield, we build the infrastructure underneath.
After Rio, the night comes to Lisbon. Tomorrow, after #Meridian2026 day 1 🥑
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Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Every business that holds user money is becoming a financial company.
We build the layer that lets them offer it. Tomorrow in Lisbon, after #Meridian2026 day 1: The Layer in Between, with @SoroswapFinance and @PaltaLabs 🍷
@BuildOnStellar @StellarOrg
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Esteban Iglesias retweeted
How many people actually use DeFi on @StellarOrg?
We built an open @dune dashboard: on-chain data only, 8 protocols, weekly since Feb 2024.
📊 dune.com/paltalabs/stellar-d…
@blend_capital @AquariusDeFi @etherfuse @PhoenixDeFiHub @SushiSwap @FxDAO_io @StellarGlobal_
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Stellar's biggest hackathon is coming to Lisbon.
🌟 HackMeridian: October 25–26.
Two days, two tracks, builders flying in from everywhere.
#HackMeridian2026
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
.@esteblock_dev took the stage for @PaltaLabs at the @BuildOnStellar X @CV_Labs Accelerator, and yield was a big part of it.
The message to founders: offering yield does not mean building it yourself.
We are the infrastructure teams can leverage to keep it simple, across DeFi and RWA opportunities on @StellarOrg.
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
$180B in USDT liquidity is now live on Stellar. USDT0 unified across chains on SushiSwap, Freighter, Kraken, and 10+ partners. Emerging markets get their trusted stablecoin on a network built for it.
stellar.org/blog/foundation-…
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
The @StellarOrg x @CV_Labs Accelerator is officially underway! 🚀
Earlier this week, the selected cohort landed in Cape Town to kick off a two-week bootcamp. Over the next 10 days, participating startups will take part in workshops and learning sessions covering GTM strategy, leveraging the Stellar tech stack, navigating the legal and regulatory landscape, business development and fundraising in the AI era, how to work with leading institutions, and more.
👋 A big welcome to the ten startups joining CV Labs and the Stellar Development Foundation in Cape Town: Crebit Pay, DeFa by Invoicemate, Janus Solutions, JoonaPay, Kutana Technologies, Remi, Saleem, Sly, Sorted, and Yolat.
Created together with the @StellarOrg Development Foundation, ten high-growth startups across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the US have been selected to build the financial infrastructure layer for the digital and agentic economy.
Discover more about the Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator: cvlabs.com/stellar
@StellarOrg @BuildOnStellar
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Cape Town, we're here.
@esteblock_dev and @coderipper are on the ground as technical EIR support for the @BuildOnStellar X @CV_Labs Accelerator, ready to meet the founders shaping fintech across the region.
The view is great, but the focus is on the work.
Let's talk: cal.com/esteblock
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Next stop: Blockchain Rio 🇧🇷
Our CEO @esteblock_dev is landing at @blockchain_rio tomorrow to meet the neobanks, fintechs, and builders shaping embedded finance across LATAM.
@defindex_, the yield infrastructure built @BuildOnStellar.
Going too? His DMs are open, let's find a moment to talk.
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
We've completed @defindex_'s APY Stabilizer design and code review.
The engagement ran over two weeks, concluding in June 2026. The audit combined a design review with a manual code review, focusing on role-based access control correctness, fee-bounds and accounting invariants, and cross-contract interaction security.
DeFindex is a multi-asset yield aggregator and a top-10 DeFi protocol on @StellarOrg by TVL, built by the @PaltaLabs team.
The APY Stabilizer is an add-on that lets partner vaults offer their users a stable, predictable APY instead of one that tracks volatile strategy yields, implemented as two independent Soroban contracts coordinated by an off-chain service.
The audit identified a series of findings ranging in severity. Our team collaborated closely with the DeFindex team throughout the process, with all identified issues addressed, or acknowledged, during the remediation period.
To access the report, follow the link below 👇
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
AI agents will make investing or payments feel less technical for regular people. 🧠
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
AI as the brain, blockchain as the nervous system. @defindex_ co-founders on the future of fintech: agents handling payments and investments through chat, backed by reliable onchain execution.
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Esteban Iglesias retweeted
What is next for @defindex_? The future of finance isn’t a banking app, it is embedded, programmable, and AI-native.
Interoperable Ch. 8: DeFindex's Vision - What's next? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKkOOYww…
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Teaching kids to save is step one. Teaching their savings to work is step two 🐷
That's why @piggywallet_app integrated @defindex_!
Piggy Wallet helps families teach kids how to save; with parental controls, goal tracking, and gamified lessons. Now, the money kids save can actually grow 💫
Explore Piggy Wallet 👇
piggywallet.app/
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Piggy Wallet now lets users put USDC to work on @StellarOrg. 🐷
We integrated @blend_capital and @defindex_ so users can access yield opportunities directly through @StellarOrg infrastructure.
Want to know what powers it and where to try it? Keep reading.
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
And today we crossed 13.26M! No signs of slowing down 🦾
And the percentage movers hint at what's next: @Strato_net +1,086%, @DeFindex_ +799%, @Rain__Protocol +763%, @NestExchange +119%.
Esteban Iglesias retweeted
Every business is becoming a fintech ⚡
At The LATAM Embedded Finance Night during @WebSummit Rio, we gathered the founders, investors, and operators building this future across Latin America.
Soon, any business holding user money, retailers, payroll platforms, super-apps, AI agents, will offer savings and yield as a basic feature. Most won't build it themselves: they'll plug into infrastructure that handles the vaults, the yield, the risk, and the regulation across every chain and jurisdiction.
That's what we are building. And for one night, we brought the people building it into the same room.
Thanks to everyone who came, and to @privy_io for building it with us. This is just the beggining 🚀