Side events
Your guide to the official side events in Lisbon. For all community events and ecosystem gatherings around Meridian, please visit the Luma page.
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Find all community-led meetups, dinners, social gatherings, and ecosystem happenings taking place around Meridian 2026 on our side event Luma calendar.
Padel Warm-Up: Meridian
Hosted by XOXNO, a non-custodial Lending Protocol built on a Hub-and-Spoke architecture, this event is about playing a friendly (or not👀) padel tournament and connecting with others in the Stellar ecosystem.
Padel matches will be organised by skill level.
Please indicate your actual level when completing the registration form.
Not playing?
You are still very welcome to join us for networking, good conversations, and refreshments from the club’s smoothie bar.
Limited spots available.
Marketers in the Arena: Lisbon Edition
Stellar and Myosin proudly present Marketers in the Arena: Lisbon Edition.
This edition is designed for builders and founders at every stage of their journey: Stellar ecosystem partners, teams coming from HackMeridian, and Lisbon founders from our friends at Unicorn Factory.
Hear from leading marketers on bootstrapping your early stage team, and from a VC on how to navigate your upcoming pitch. Two teams will be invited on stage for our Marketing Roast. The day also features hands on workshops, roundtables with Stellar ecosystem partners on what comes after the hackathon, 1:1 mentor sessions and founder led activations.
Badge Pick up at Convento do Beato is an 8 minute walk away, or take our shuttle there and back for running 14:00 to 17:00.
Times are subject to change.
Full program and details at https://marketersinthearena.com
Tokenize This Lisbon
On the eve of Meridian, RedStone is hosting an evening for the people bringing real-world assets onchain. Tokenized funds, treasuries and credit are live, and the next step is building real markets around them: lending, collateral, and pricing data that institutions can rely on.
The evening brings together the issuers putting assets onchain, the allocators deciding where capital goes, and the builders turning tokenized assets into working financial products.
Join us for a cocktail reception and an evening of conversations from leaders across tokenization, data and DeFi.
Riserva Lisbon | Stablecoins over wine at Stellar Meridian
Most of the best conversations at a conference happen outside the venue.
The night before Stellar Meridian opens, Range is bringing together senior finance, treasury, compliance and payments leaders for an evening over wine.
Three wines, a cocktail reception and a room of people working through the same questions around payments, licensing, treasury and the risk and compliance infrastructure behind stablecoin adoption.
The evening is designed for a more candid conversation than the conference agenda usually allows.
Spots are limited and approval-based. Register now.
DeFi x RWA: Cocktail Hour
Join XOXNO and Aha Company for an evening of cocktails, conversation, and connections in Lisbon.
Enjoy drinks and light bites while meeting founders, investors, institutions, and builders from across DeFi and RWA.
Blendy's Booze Brokerage w/ Zenex
Exchange bar!
Drink ticket prices move throughout the night!
Blendy broke into his parents' liquor cabinet again. But this time he found booze and... a fish??? In his state of confusion he grabbed his new aquatic friend by the bowl and all the alcohol he could carry. Now they're sharing their treasure with the free market to let the people decide how much a bottle is worth!
The night before Meridian 2026, drinks trade like assets. Every order moves the market. Buy a drink and its price may rise. Ignore one and it might crash. Watch the live market board all night and time your next order.
📉 Flash crashes
📈 Bull runs
🍺 Happy hour, for degens
Noah x Stellar: Drinks at Meridian
Join Noah and the Stellar Development Foundation for an evening of drinks, food and conversation during Meridian in Lisbon.
This is a relaxed gathering, not a formal programme. It’s a chance to meet the people building and buying stablecoin payments: operators running payouts to creators, contractors and recipients, treasury teams, banks and infrastructure partners. Come to swap stories, ask questions and get a closer look at what Noah has been building.
The conversation will centre on the shift happening in compliant money movement: where Stablecoin payments are working in production today, and what it takes to run them at enterprise scale.
VIP Dinner with Stellar, Boys Club, and WalletConnect
When everyone's agents are talking to each other directly, what does that mean for the people running brands, newsrooms, and the companies moving money?
On the opening night of Meridian 2026, Stellar Development Foundation, Boys Club, and WalletConnect are hosting an intimate dinner to discuss just that.
The evening
7:45 pm · doors open, mingling
8:15 pm · fireside chat: Boys Club co-founder Natasha Hoskins hosts Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, and Jason Karsh, CMO of Stellar Development Foundation
8:30 pm · dinner
The discussion
Media in the age of crypto and AI! What changes when your audience, your inbox, and half your org chart = agentic? How leaders are actually rolling out AI inside their companies, and what still only works in person (like this dinner)
