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22 August 2025

Euro Guesser: A Stellar Oracle Tutorial Using Reflector

Reflector is highlighted as a crucial tool in the Stellar ecosystem, offering real-time, tamper-proof price feeds to Soroban-based smart contracts by aggregating on- and off-chain data. The tutorial guides users to create a smart contract that predicts Euro price fluctuations over five minutes, connecting to Reflector for real-time data access. Users place bets using XLM,Continue reading "Euro Guesser: A Stellar Oracle Tutorial Using Reflector"

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5 August 2025

Protocol 23 Update Now Set For September 3, 2025

The Protocol 23 timeline for Stellar features a key Testnet reset on August 14, 2025, which will erase all Testnet ledger entries. This includes account, asset, and contract data, requiring users to recreate necessary data. Stellar Core changes necessitate this reset, which diverges from typical procedure. Users must promptly update Stellar-related software such as StellarContinue reading "Protocol 23 Update Now Set For September 3, 2025"

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25 July 2025

Tutorial: How to Code Your First Rust Smart Contract

James Bachini explains how to create and deploy Rust smart contracts using the Soroban framework on the Stellar blockchain. The walkthrough includes writing a simple ‘hello world’ contract, modifying it to return a name, and integrating it into a web interface utilizing JavaScript and Stellar SDK. The exercise emphasizes the decentralized and transparent nature ofContinue reading "Tutorial: How to Code Your First Rust Smart Contract"

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23 July 2025

Stellar Events: Track All the Things

The blog discusses the introduction of CAP-67 on the Stellar network, providing a unified, structured event stream for tracking all token-value movements. Previously, tracking relied on separate methods for non-smart contract operations and Soroban smart contracts, requiring complex data integration. CAP-67 streamlines the process by channeling all token movements through a single event flow. ForContinue reading "Stellar Events: Track All the Things"

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20 July 2025

How to Win a Hackathon by Learning Rust in a Day, Using Stellar Unknowingly, and Handling Impostor Syndrome (Spanish)

The blog post details the author’s experience at the Casa Builder Mexico 2025 hackathon, where they joined a team and won despite lacking knowledge of Stellar and Rust. The team consisted of four individuals with varying expertise levels, learning essential Rust and Stellar concepts quickly. They faced challenges with excessive scaffoldings and complex systems onContinue reading "How to Win a Hackathon by Learning Rust in a Day, Using Stellar Unknowingly, and Handling Impostor Syndrome (Spanish)"

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19 July 2025

Introducing Mercury Light Clients: A Leaner and Open Revamp to Mercury

Mercury Light Clients represent the evolution of the Mercury ecosystem, focusing on a leaner deployment model with reduced dependency on a centralized data feed. The redesign comes after evaluating Mercury’s performance to validate its product-market fit without continuous reshaping. The light clients push execution outward, open-source the runtime, and reduce operational workload, which is expectedContinue reading "Introducing Mercury Light Clients: A Leaner and Open Revamp to Mercury"

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17 July 2025

Gear Up for Protocol 23: Join the $KALE Farming Challenge on Stellar’s Futurenet

Protocol 23 represents a significant upgrade to the Stellar network, scheduled for release in August. To test its features, participants are encouraged to join a $KALE farming competition on Stellar’s Futurenet. This event takes place on July 23rd, lasting 24 hours, where participants aim to farm as much $KALE currency as possible with a totalContinue reading "Gear Up for Protocol 23: Join the $KALE Farming Challenge on Stellar’s Futurenet"

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17 July 2025

Parallelizing Stellar Core: The First Step Toward 5000 TPS

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is working on major upgrades to Stellar Core to enhance scalability and reach a theoretical limit of 5000 transactions per second. This involves making more efficient use of existing CPU capacity, thus avoiding the need for hardware upgrades. The SDF’s roadmap includes lowering block times from 5 seconds to 2.5Continue reading "Parallelizing Stellar Core: The First Step Toward 5000 TPS"

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16 July 2025

Stellar: The Road to 5000 TPS – Scaling Stellar in 2025

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has set a goal to enhance the Stellar network’s throughput to 5000 transactions per second (TPS) by 2025. This initiative includes the adoption of Protocol 23, which introduces multi-threaded smart contract execution and caching, allowing nodes to function efficiently without new hardware upgrades. The improvements leverage increased parallelism and decoupleContinue reading "Stellar: The Road to 5000 TPS – Scaling Stellar in 2025"

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14 July 2025

Announcing the Winners of the Stellar Hacks: Blend Hackathon!

The Stellar Hacks: Blend hackathon showcased 39 innovative projects aimed at enhancing DeFi composability on the Stellar network, with 136 developers competing for a prize pool of $6,000 in XLM. The first place was awarded to Segwithy’s Blend Pool Creator, a web app that simplifies deploying custom lending pools on Stellar. This innovation makes sophisticatedContinue reading "Announcing the Winners of the Stellar Hacks: Blend Hackathon!"

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14 July 2025

Not Just Another L1: Stellar Combines Real-World Impact with Developer Simplicity

Stellar has evolved into a globally active blockchain, facilitating billions of transactions and supporting cross-border payments in over 70 countries. With a volume of $17 billion and $522 million on-chain, it’s a key player in on-chain real-world assets. Recent enhancements, such as increasing throughput to 5,000 transactions per second, are designed to meet real-world applicationContinue reading "Not Just Another L1: Stellar Combines Real-World Impact with Developer Simplicity"

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9 July 2025

Scaffold Stellar | A Boilerplate For Stellar Developers

Scaffold Stellar, by AHA Labs, is a robust project designed to simplify Stellar blockchain development. It includes several key components such as the Stellar Scaffold Client for project initialization and workflow management, and the Stellar Registry CLI for on-chain contract management. Significant focus is on the ease of use with tools like Stellar Build forContinue reading "Scaffold Stellar | A Boilerplate For Stellar Developers"

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9 July 2025

Stellar Ecosystem Highlights – June 2025

June saw Stellar’s active engagement across Europe, spotlighting events like Berlin Blockchain Week, where Stellar Europa’s ambassador chapter launched. In Istanbul, a 36-hour hackathon offered $25,000 in prizes, sparking innovative blockchain projects. Major product launches such as Beans Earn and Defindex simplified the cash-to-DeFi experience. PayPal announced plans for its $PYUSD stablecoin on Stellar, aimingContinue reading "Stellar Ecosystem Highlights – June 2025"

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26 June 2025

Stellarbeat.io Transitions Users to OBSRVR Radar and Stellar Atlas

Stellarbeat.io has begun redirecting its services to OBSRVR Radar and Stellar Atlas, both offering APIs that serve as replacements for the existing Stellarbeat functionalities. Users of Stellarbeat’s APIs must update their URLs to transition smoothly to these new services, ensuring continued monitoring capabilities within the Stellar network. For those relying on Stellarbeat for email notifications,Continue reading "Stellarbeat.io Transitions Users to OBSRVR Radar and Stellar Atlas"

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25 June 2025

Stellar Assets SDK: A Library to Easily Handle All Kinds of Stellar Asset

The Stellar Assets SDK by Creit-Tech is crafted to simplify handling multiple Stellar assets in the Soroban smart contract ecosystem. It addresses the challenge of fetching balances for multiple addresses without needing to use multiple simulations or relying on external services. Users can install the ESM library depending on their development environment. The SDK isContinue reading "Stellar Assets SDK: A Library to Easily Handle All Kinds of Stellar Asset"

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16 June 2025

How to Create a Wrapped Stablecoin Using OpenZeppelin Contracts On Stellar

The tutorial walks through creating a custom stablecoin named JUSD on the Stellar using the OpenZeppelin contracts. The creation involves using a SEP-41 token that accepts USDC deposits to mint the new stablecoin at a one-to-one conversion rate. The video covers the process of setting up a permissionless contract and performing mint and burn functions,Continue reading "How to Create a Wrapped Stablecoin Using OpenZeppelin Contracts On Stellar"

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3 June 2025

Lobstr Now Supports Sending to Contract Addresses

Lobstr’s new feature enables sending tokens to Stellar Soroban smart contract addresses through its mobile app, making the process seamless for power users and builders. When a Soroban contract address is pasted in the Send screen, Lobstr identifies it, confirming the interaction with a smart contract rather than a wallet. The user interface remains intuitiveContinue reading "Lobstr Now Supports Sending to Contract Addresses"

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3 June 2025

Formally Verifying Soroban Smart Contracts with Certora Sunbeam

The video explains how formal verification functions and its application to Soroban smart contracts through Certora’s Sunbeam. Formal verification, historically considered theoretical, proves essential in software like decentralized finance applications and smart contracts. It should be initiated early in the development pipeline to simplify designs and prevent bugs. Sunbeam translates code and specifications into mathematicalContinue reading "Formally Verifying Soroban Smart Contracts with Certora Sunbeam"

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3 June 2025

Migrating Contracts from Solidity to Soroban

The video presents a comprehensive guide on migrating a smart contract written in Solidity to Soroban, a smart contract platform on the Stellar blockchain. It starts with a practical transformation of a Solidity-based perpetual futures contract, originally designed after the FTX collapse, to work on Soroban, using Rust and WebAssembly. James Bachini explains the useContinue reading "Migrating Contracts from Solidity to Soroban"

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2 June 2025

Stellar X Draper University Founder Residency 2025: Kickstart Your Web3 Project

The Stellar X Draper University Founder Residency 2025 is an in-person program in Silicon Valley designed to support early-stage Web3 projects with a $20,000 equity-free grant. Scheduled from July 14, 2025, the program covers accommodation and flights while providing technical and growth workshops. Participants will refine pitch decks, learn fundraising strategies, and present their projectsContinue reading "Stellar X Draper University Founder Residency 2025: Kickstart Your Web3 Project"

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31 May 2025

Intro to Scaffold Stellar

The video highlights the development and purpose of Scaffold Stellar, led by Chad from AHA Labs, underlining its importance in improving developer experiences on the Stellar network. Drawing inspiration from similar frameworks like Scaffold ETH and Ruby on Rails, Scaffold Stellar is designed to provide a starting point for developers building apps on Stellar. EmphasizingContinue reading "Intro to Scaffold Stellar"

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16 May 2025

Stellar Dev Diaries: Episode 2 – Becoming Fundable

The second episode of the Stellar Dev Diaries series chronicles the Freelii team’s journey of creating and launching their product on the Stellar Network. It captures the process from idea to product, detailing how they expanded their initial concept to win hackathons and secure funding through the Stellar Community Fund. This episode gives insights intoContinue reading "Stellar Dev Diaries: Episode 2 – Becoming Fundable"

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15 May 2025

Creating NFTs using @OpenZeppelin Stellar Soroban Library

The video provides a step-by-step guide to creating an NFT using OpenZeppelin’s libraries tailored for Soroban smart contracts, and deploying it to the Stellar testnet. It starts by navigating through OpenZeppelin’s GitHub repository and explains how to modify contracts to include minting limits for the NFTs. The process uses Rust for compiling and deploying theContinue reading "Creating NFTs using @OpenZeppelin Stellar Soroban Library"

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15 May 2025

Who Can Sign What: How Blockchains Handle Authorization

The article explores the authorization mechanisms of Ethereum, Stellar, and Solana blockchains, focusing on transaction structures and how different chains handle authorization. Stellar’s structured authorization model is highlighted, offering more flexible transaction handling, such as fee sponsorship and multi-party authorization, compared to Ethereum’s more linear approach. Solana’s account model allows for permissions to be inheritedContinue reading "Who Can Sign What: How Blockchains Handle Authorization"

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12 May 2025

Introducing OpenZeppelin Contracts for Stellar v0.2.0: Enhancing NFTs and Contract Upgradeability

OpenZeppelin has introduced Contracts for Stellar v0.2.0, offering significant advancements in smart contract development for the Stellar blockchain. Key features include a new NFT base contract with plug-in extensions such as batch-minting to rapidly deploy collections, and enumerable functionality for token auto-indexing. Additionally, upgradeability is unlocked through a structured framework allowing contract updates without redeployment,Continue reading "Introducing OpenZeppelin Contracts for Stellar v0.2.0: Enhancing NFTs and Contract Upgradeability"

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10 May 2025

Axal: Beyond Stellar Kickstart

The conversation between Raph from Lumen Loop and Ash from Axal delves into Axal’s journey from humble beginnings in hackathons to building a sophisticated automation platform leveraging Stellar blockchain. Initially focused on treasury management automation, Axal evolved to providing verifiable agents for task execution. Through the Stellar Community Fund, Axal aims to expand its automationContinue reading "Axal: Beyond Stellar Kickstart"

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9 May 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: Chatting the Stellar Idea Bank

In the meeting, Boxy discusses Stellar Light, a platform developed to help showcase projects built on the Stellar blockchain and facilitate the onboarding of new developers into the ecosystem. Raph covers the similarities between his work with Lumen Loop and Boxy’s initiatives, particularly in focusing on project discovery and onboarding. The session highlights the creationContinue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: Chatting the Stellar Idea Bank"

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7 May 2025

Privy.io Integrates Stellar for Enhanced Crypto Wallet and Onboarding Services

Privy.io’s latest integration of Stellar into its Tier 2 support aims to improve its crypto wallet and onboarding services. This integration facilitates core transaction functionalities essential for utilizing the Stellar blockchain effectively. Key features include curve-level cryptographic signatures for transaction signing, basic wallet functionalities like key export, and integration with chain-specific libraries. Additionally, users benefitContinue reading "Privy.io Integrates Stellar for Enhanced Crypto Wallet and Onboarding Services"

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5 May 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: Protocol 23 CAP Follow-up and Q&A

The meeting focused on various CAPs related to Stellar’s Protocol 23, with a strong emphasis on CAP 70, which introduces new network configuration settings aiming to enhance consensus timing by allowing configurable values rather than hard-coded ones. This proposal aims to gradually lower block times towards higher throughput in a controlled manner. Participants raised concernsContinue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: Protocol 23 CAP Follow-up and Q&A"

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2 May 2025

Stellar Build Better Hackathon Results

The Stellar Build Better Hackathon concluded with 220 registered developers and 84 approved projects, targeting practical applications using Stellar’s smart contracts. With a $25,000 USDC prize pool, categories included Better Finance, Better Creativity, and Better Access. Developers worked on DeFi tools, creator economy platforms, and identity solutions, facilitating networking with global peers and leading cryptoContinue reading "Stellar Build Better Hackathon Results"

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30 April 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: Developer Spotlight with Tupui

The video showcases a Stellar Developer Meeting featuring Pamphil, known as Tupui, a prominent community member. Tupui talks about his journey into blockchain development and his active involvement with Stellar over the past two years. He describes the inception and goals of Tansu, a platform that seeks to improve governance and transparency in open-source projectsContinue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: Developer Spotlight with Tupui"

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29 April 2025

Guestbook Demo DApp Walkthrough

This walkthrough covers the guestbook demo DApp developed on the Stellar blockchain, highlighting the functionalities and architecture of the application. The guestbook allows users to read and write messages, with authentication handled via passkeys for a wallet-less experience. The smart contracts include functions for writing, editing, and reading messages, using utility functions to store dataContinue reading "Guestbook Demo DApp Walkthrough"

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11 April 2025

Introducing OpenZeppelin Monitor: Elevate Your Stellar Development With Real-Time Blockchain Insights

OpenZeppelin Monitor provides a vital tool for Stellar developers, enabling them to monitor blockchain activity with real-time notifications. It supports multiple chains including Stellar and offers configurable monitoring schedules, flexible triggers, and extensible architecture for additional chains. The service is designed to track specific on-chain events and trigger notifications through platforms like Slack, Email, andContinue reading "Introducing OpenZeppelin Monitor: Elevate Your Stellar Development With Real-Time Blockchain Insights"

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2 April 2025

Charlas Stellares | De Idea a MVP: Cómo Crear un Producto Viable – Bastián Koh (Spanish)

Bastián Koh outlines how to turn an idea into an MVP using design thinking, emphasizing the importance of validating an idea efficiently. The video describes the linear yet cyclical nature of design thinking: empathizing with users, defining the problem, brainstorming solutions, creating prototypes, and evaluating through feedback. Koh distinguishes between proof of concept, prototyping, andContinue reading "Charlas Stellares | De Idea a MVP: Cómo Crear un Producto Viable – Bastián Koh (Spanish)"

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18 March 2025

SCF #33 Round Recap: Stellar Community Fund Overview

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) Round 33 featured 92 submissions, with 62 newcomers, leading to 14 projects awarded a total of $1,033,620 in XLM. This round introduced SCF 6.1 in preparation for Round 34, simplifying the application process with a new submission method focused on brief project overviews, video introductions, and team details. This changeContinue reading "SCF #33 Round Recap: Stellar Community Fund Overview"

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18 March 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: CAP-67 Discussion

This meeting addresses proposed updates to CAP-67, aiming to bring functionality to transactions in Stellar Classic, particularly for batch payments. The focus is on incorporating memos into the Stellar protocol through functions like ‘transferWithMemo’. Various proposals explore using muxed addresses and the integration of their support within the Stellar network, with concerns about complexity forContinue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: CAP-67 Discussion"

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18 March 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: CAP-66 and CAP-67 Discussions

The Stellar Developer Meeting highlighted two proposals, CAP-68 and CAP-69, aimed at enhancing Soroban’s functionality. CAP-68 proposes a host function to determine executable types associated with various addresses, enabling differentiation between classic accounts, Terra asset contracts, and WASM contracts. This function is significant for developers needing to verify contract types or perform token operations reliably.Continue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: CAP-66 and CAP-67 Discussions"

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4 March 2025

Stellar Developer Meeting: Blend’s $125K Security Challenge & Formal Verification Insights

In the Stellar Developer Meeting, the team from Blend introduced their security initiative designed to safeguard the Stellar ecosystem, focusing on Blend V2. The initiative includes a groundbreaking $125,000 USDC competition, marking the first open competitive audit and verification contest within the Stellar realm. Alex from Script3 delved into the architecture of Blend, a universalContinue reading "Stellar Developer Meeting: Blend’s $125K Security Challenge & Formal Verification Insights"

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4 March 2025

Stellar Builder Residency | Fundamentals Workshop

The Stellar Builder Residency, led by Lavenda, welcomes developers to explore the Stellar blockchain through a structured cohort program. The initiative emphasizes the integration of Soroban smart contracts, using Rust programming language, within the Stellar ecosystem. Participants gain knowledge on fundamental blockchain concepts, including accounts and assets, and advanced elements like cross-border payments and decentralizedContinue reading "Stellar Builder Residency | Fundamentals Workshop"

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19 February 2025

Franklin Templeton Brings Stellar Tokenized U.S. Treasury Fund to European Investors

Franklin Templeton has introduced the first fully tokenized U.S. Treasury fund registered in Luxembourg, making it accessible for institutional investors in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. This initiative is part of the company’s strategy to leverage blockchain technology, specifically the Stellar Lumens network, to enhance the fund’s transaction efficiency, transparency,Continue reading "Franklin Templeton Brings Stellar Tokenized U.S. Treasury Fund to European Investors"

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12 February 2025

Stellar: The Definitive Guide to Testing Smart Contracts on Stellar

The blog emphasizes the significance of testing in the development of Stellar smart contracts, drawing from the scientific method to ensure reliability and safety. Different testing strategies are discussed, including unit tests that focus on specific contract functionalities, integration tests using the Soroban Rust SDK for testing across components, and fuzzing for random data testingContinue reading "Stellar: The Definitive Guide to Testing Smart Contracts on Stellar"

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11 February 2025

The Stellar Community Fund Evolves to Bring More Projects to Mainnet – The Defiant

The Stellar Community Fund is undergoing significant changes to better facilitate projects reaching the Stellar mainnet. These changes include providing increased support and resources to developers, streamlining the process for bringing ideas to fruition. The evolution of the fund is geared towards encouraging innovation and expanding the number of projects successfully launching on the blockchain.Continue reading "The Stellar Community Fund Evolves to Bring More Projects to Mainnet – The Defiant"

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6 February 2025

Impact Panel: A Real-World Impact – Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges

This panel explores how blockchain is harnessed to tackle critical issues like poverty and climate change. Notable examples include Partizia’s use of privacy technology in philanthropy and UNHCR’s use of Stellar blockchain for efficient aid distribution in Ukraine. Emphasizing collaboration, leaders from Positive Blockchain and others highlight partnerships with governments as crucial for scaling impacts.Continue reading "Impact Panel: A Real-World Impact – Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges"

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5 February 2025

OpenZeppelin Announces First Release Candidate of Stellar Library for Community Feedback

OpenZeppelin has introduced the first release candidate of the Stellar Library, seeking feedback from the Stellar community. This initial release includes key modules such as Pausable, which provides stop mechanisms for contracts, and Fungible Token, offering essential functionalities for balance and allowance management akin to ERC‑20 or SEP-41 standards. The design follows best practices withContinue reading "OpenZeppelin Announces First Release Candidate of Stellar Library for Community Feedback"

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4 February 2025

View from the Stellar Development Foundation: Opening the Door for Africa’s Growth

The discussion focuses on the efforts of the Stellar Development Foundation in enhancing Africa’s creative economy using blockchain technology. The Acuna Wallet, a digital wallet developed with collaboration from Idris Elba, aims to help creators in West Africa efficiently receive global payments and reduce transaction fees. This initiative is part of a larger movement toContinue reading "View from the Stellar Development Foundation: Opening the Door for Africa’s Growth"

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2 February 2025

What Is Stellar? A Developer’s Guide to Web3 Payments & Soroban Smart Contracts

Stellar functions as a scalable Web3 blockchain, facilitating instant global payments with extremely low transaction fees and rapid settlement times of 2-5 seconds. It supports multi-currency transfers and provides developers with Soroban, a lightweight smart contract platform built on Rust, ensuring secure, efficient Web3 application development. Stellar’s ecosystem includes robust SDKs and APIs for buildingContinue reading "What Is Stellar? A Developer’s Guide to Web3 Payments & Soroban Smart Contracts"

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30 January 2025

Solving State Bloat with State Archival: Risks and Mitigations | Garand Tyson (Stellar)

Garand Tyson presents a solution for state bloat on the Stellar Network using state archival. In this approach, each piece of ledger state is assigned a TTL (time-to-live), which can be extended through rent payments that recapture storage costs. Upon TTL expiration, data is archived and can be deleted from active databases, reducing redundant storageContinue reading "Solving State Bloat with State Archival: Risks and Mitigations | Garand Tyson (Stellar)"

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30 January 2025

Stellar SDF Partners with OpenZeppelin to Enhance Stellar Smart Contract Development

The Stellar Development Foundation announces a partnership with OpenZeppelin from January 2025 to December 2026 to enhance the Stellar network’s smart contract capabilities. This collaboration introduces OpenZeppelin’s security expertise to Stellar’s Soroban platform, creating the Stellar Library. The library will offer foundational smart contracts, advanced token standards, and cryptographic utilities, crucial for secure application development.Continue reading "Stellar SDF Partners with OpenZeppelin to Enhance Stellar Smart Contract Development"

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28 January 2025

Meet the Stellar Development Foundation’s Devrel Team

The Stellar Developer Meeting features the entire DevRel team discussing last year’s highlights such as Protocol 20, Soroban smart contracts, and the Meridian conference. Team members share their excitement about smart contracts, describing how tools like passkeys and LaunchTube enhance user experience. Future goals include increasing developer activities and smart contract usage, alongside better documentationContinue reading "Meet the Stellar Development Foundation’s Devrel Team"

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27 January 2025

United Nations Development Programme and Stellar Development Foundation Join Forces to Advance Blockchain Solutions for Financial Inclusion

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have announced a collaboration to leverage blockchain technology in advancing financial inclusion. This strategic partnership will focus on the development of scalable blockchain solutions that foster equitable economic growth, particularly in emerging countries. By utilizing the Stellar network’s open-source tools, the partnership aims toContinue reading "United Nations Development Programme and Stellar Development Foundation Join Forces to Advance Blockchain Solutions for Financial Inclusion"

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27 January 2025

United Nations Development Programme and Stellar Development Foundation Join Forces

On January 27, 2025, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central Asia announced a partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) to advance blockchain solutions for financial inclusion. This strategic alliance focuses on using the Stellar network and open-source tools to improve access to digital financial services in developing regions, targeting economicContinue reading "United Nations Development Programme and Stellar Development Foundation Join Forces"

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22 January 2025

Stellar RPC Has Arrived

Stellar RPC, a rebranded version of Soroban RPC, has been introduced to provide developers with real-time access to the Stellar network, superseding the need for the extensive Horizon infrastructure. Unlike its predecessor, Stellar RPC is not limited to just smart contracts but aims to serve as a comprehensive data access point for all Stellar applications.Continue reading "Stellar RPC Has Arrived"

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22 January 2025

January 22 Stellar Network Upgrade – Increasing Smart Contract Limits

The Stellar network is set to undergo an upgrade on January 22, 2025, with the implementation of SLP-0001 by validators. This proposal aims to enhance Soroban smart contracts by increasing the number of ledger entries per transaction to 100 read and 50 write, and doubling the event size limit to 16KB. These changes will facilitateContinue reading "January 22 Stellar Network Upgrade – Increasing Smart Contract Limits"

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20 January 2025

Stellar Development Foundation’s Participation in Davos Week 2025

The Stellar Development Foundation will participate in Davos Week, engaging in events focusing on blockchain’s role in global finance and economic growth. Key sessions include discussions at #WEF25 and co-hosted events with Financial Times and SEMAFOR. The foundation intends to highlight blockchain’s potential for sustainable development, including collaborations on the Akuna Wallet project.

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17 January 2025

Soroban Token Deployment + React dApp Tutorial (Stellar SDK)

The blog post guides readers through deploying a fungible token on the Stellar network using Soroban smart contracts and building a React-based decentralized application to interact with it. It includes steps for setting up the development environment, creating a wallet, and ensuring token transfers. The tutorial provides code examples and best practices for secure handlingContinue reading "Soroban Token Deployment + React dApp Tutorial (Stellar SDK)"

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17 January 2025

Soroban Tokens 101 | Deploying Tokens & Building dApps

The video demonstrates how to deploy a fungible token on the Stellar network using Soroban smart contracts. It involves building a decentralized application (dApp) to interact with the token, performed through a command line interface, and incorporating tools like Rust and the Stellar Client. The process includes token minting, deploying contracts, and managing them withinContinue reading "Soroban Tokens 101 | Deploying Tokens & Building dApps"

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6 January 2025

Let’s Get Soroban: Constructor

The video covers the use of constructors in Soroban contracts on the Stellar blockchain. Constructors are special functions called only once when a contract is deployed. The tutorial includes declaring a constructor in Soroban, setting storage, and deploying contracts.

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6 January 2025

Soroban Data & State Management

This video explores how data is managed on Stellar’s Soroban smart contract platform, focusing on state management to prevent state bloat. Soroban utilizes a rental system for persistent storage, ensuring data is efficiently managed with XLM tokens for extending data’s lifespan. Various storage types are introduced for different use cases, including persistent, temporary, and instanceContinue reading "Soroban Data & State Management"

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19 December 2024

Stellar Aid Assist Used to Deliver $4.6 Million in Aid

Stellar Aid Assist is an aid disbursement solution launched two years ago, delivering $4.6 million to about 2,500 households in Ukraine. The program is expanding beyond Ukraine, reaching Argentina to support refugee entrepreneurs. It leverages blockchain technology for transparent and efficient aid distribution.

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18 December 2024

Stellar Developer Docs Now Available in Spanish

The Stellar developer documentation has been translated into Spanish, enhancing accessibility for Spanish-speaking developers. This project has been underway for an extended period and is released before the holiday season. Feedback is encouraged to improve the translation.

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15 December 2024

Stellar Talk with Jayrome and Raph 12/12/2024

The video discusses a recent Stellar marketing event in Prague, highlighting the experiences of Jayrome and Raph, including travel mishaps and meeting Stellar executives. They talk about the emergence conference organized by The Block, comparing it to previous Stellar events and the significance of connecting with multiple blockchain ecosystems. They also share updates on theContinue reading "Stellar Talk with Jayrome and Raph 12/12/2024"

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11 December 2024

The First Modular Confidential VM Network Implementation on Stellar Testnet

A new modular implementation of confidential virtual machines (CVMs) called rs-modular-dstack has been launched on the Stellar testnet. This implementation allows customizable dstack setups for sharing secret states. It introduces a more accessible way to participate in trusted execution environments using dummy quote generators instead of actual SGX hardware.

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28 November 2024

CyberBrawl and Stellar Chit-Chat

The video discusses the new features and rebranding of litemint.io to CyberBrawl, focusing on leveraging Stellar’s smart contracts for improved gaming experiences. CyberBrawl will feature enhanced graphics and new in-game currencies, allowing crafting and trading on the blockchain. A tournament for CyberBrawl is planned to start next month, signaling greater interaction and engagement within theContinue reading "CyberBrawl and Stellar Chit-Chat"

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24 November 2024

Release 1.0.0 · Lightsail Network Java Stellar SDK · GitHub

The release of version 1.0.0 of the Java Stellar SDK marks a milestone in the project’s development, focusing on community feedback since previous alpha and beta versions. Users upgrading from older versions should review prior changelogs due to significant updates. This release also introduces semantic versioning for more predictable future updates.

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21 November 2024

Stellar | A Peek at Meridian’s Dev Underground, the Hyper-Speed Stage

The inaugural day of Meridian 2024 in London featured the Dev Underground stage, hosting over 80 Stellar Community Fund winners showcasing their projects. In a lively atmosphere marked by the use of pom-poms and cowbells, quick project pitches fostered collaboration and innovation among developers. The event highlighted Stellar’s potential to transform the financial system throughContinue reading "Stellar | A Peek at Meridian’s Dev Underground, the Hyper-Speed Stage"

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20 October 2024

Tansu Now Offered Over IPFS

The blog post discusses serving a decentralized application (dApp) on IPFS, an open-source platform for decentralized data management. It also describes the role of different gateways and a specific Stellar gateway, xlm.sh, which resolves Stellar addresses and Soroban Domains. The post highlights future possibilities of linking metadata to Soroban Domains with IPFS and the ongoingContinue reading "Tansu Now Offered Over IPFS"

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17 October 2024

Stellar Ecosystem Implements Blockaid Security Features

Blockaid has integrated its Onchain Detection and Response (ODR) technology into the Stellar blockchain, starting with the Lobstr and Freighter wallets. This partnership will enable real-time threat monitoring and response capabilities for these wallets, with more integrations planned. In the first half of 2024, Blockaid plans further collaborations, including a notable integration with Coinbase Wallet.

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12 October 2024

Sorobuild: Streamlining Soroban Smart Contract Development With No-Code Solution

SoroBuild is a no-code tool designed to simplify Soroban smart contract development and deployment. It provides a user-friendly interface for building, testing, and deploying contracts, allowing developers to interact with them without needing to create a frontend. The tool is available on TESTNET, FUTURENET, and the PUBLIC network, with special offers for the first 50Continue reading "Sorobuild: Streamlining Soroban Smart Contract Development With No-Code Solution"

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9 October 2024

Stellar+IPFS Websites Using xlm.sh

The blog post explains how to access websites hosted on Stellar and IPFS by using the xlm.sh gateway. Users can set IPNS or IPFS records in their Stellar/Soroban names and access the site by appending ‘.sh’ to their ‘.xlm’ name. Additionally, users can register a domain on Soroban Domains to enhance access to their websites.

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8 October 2024

Announcing Stellar Protocol 22

On November 19, 2024, Stellar validators will vote on upgrading to Protocol 22 which includes new CAPs: CAP-0058 for simplifying Soroban contract initialization, and CAP-0059 for BLS12-381 host functions facilitating advanced cryptography. The Stellar testnet will be upgraded on October 22, 2024, and preparation is advised for developers building on Stellar.

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23 September 2024

Retroshades: Redefining Stellar Smart Contract Indexing

The blog introduces Retroshades, a new technology for smart contract indexing on Soroban-supporting chains. Retroshades offers a simpler alternative to Zephyr, allowing developers to create fully-featured indexers quickly by leveraging the Mercury network. It functions through parallel execution and custom event emission, significantly enhancing data accessibility.

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22 September 2024

Stellar RiseIn Turkish Bootcamp Oct 2-13th

The Stellar Fullstack Bootcamp in Turkey offers a free, project-based, beginner-level program focusing on blockchain technologies like Stellar and Soroban. Participants will receive a certificate and have the chance to win prizes from a $4000 pool. The next cohort application deadline is September 28, 2024.

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20 September 2024

Stellar & OnlyDust Team Up to Boost Open-Source Contributions

Stellar Development Foundation and OnlyDust are collaborating to attract more developers to the Stellar ecosystem, aided by the recent launch of Stellar’s smart contract, Soroban. Their partnership includes onboarding 15 Stellar projects to the OnlyDust platform, participating in monthly open-source week ODHacks to increase visibility and engagement. This initiative aims to accelerate Stellar’s growth byContinue reading "Stellar & OnlyDust Team Up to Boost Open-Source Contributions"

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12 September 2024

Galexie: Efficiently Extract and Store Stellar Data

Galexie is a lightweight application designed to efficiently export Stellar network data to a cloud-based data lake, supporting tools like Hubble and Horizon. It decouples data extraction from transformation, enhancing data processing and reducing hardware requirements. Future expansions aim to support other object stores and integrate new transformation tools.

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6 September 2024

Introducing Stellar Community Fund 6.0

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) version 6.0 introduces significant enhancements, including leveraging Stellar’s smart contract capabilities, streamlined support for project development, and improved funding avenues for high-impact projects. Key components include the Kickstart bootcamp with applications closing on September 15, the SCF Build Award with a submission deadline on September 18, and collaborations with DraperU’sContinue reading "Introducing Stellar Community Fund 6.0"

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29 August 2024

Mercury Community Indexes and Dashboards: Powering Next-Gen Network Data Charting and Collaboration

Mercury by xyclooLabs introduces new functionalities for Stellar developers, enabling the creation of community indexes and dashboards for more robust data charting and collaborative efforts. Publicly accessible tables and custom dashboards can now be created and accessed, enhancing data analysis and visualization on the network. This update allows for greater discoverability and simplicity in creatingContinue reading "Mercury Community Indexes and Dashboards: Powering Next-Gen Network Data Charting and Collaboration"

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24 August 2024

Indexing the Blend YieldBlox Pool in 125 Lines of Code and 8 Minutes

This blog post discusses building an indexer and API for the YieldBlox blend pool, leveraging Mercury’s cloud execution environment to achieve this without the need for infrastructure or complex adapter logic. The post highlights the efficiency of event-based indexing for capturing pool actions such as borrow, repay, and collateral movements, and details the ease ofContinue reading "Indexing the Blend YieldBlox Pool in 125 Lines of Code and 8 Minutes"

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24 August 2024

It’s Time to Distribute $FXG | FxDAO

The FxDAO protocol is set to start distributing its governance token, $FXG, with the launch of locking pools. Distribution begins on August 31st, with reward calculation starting from August 5th. Participants who lock their shares early can accumulate rewards until the first distribution, followed by daily distributions thereafter.

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22 August 2024

Stellar: Composable Data Platform – A New Way to Access Data

The Composable Data Platform (CDP) introduces a new architecture for data access within the Stellar ecosystem, aiming to make data storage and access more distributed across participants. It is a collection of open-source tools and libraries designed for customization and flexibility in data handling, enabling developers to tailor data access patterns to their application needs.Continue reading "Stellar: Composable Data Platform – A New Way to Access Data"

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