Onchain monitoring is your instrument panel. Why builders and users alike need real-time visibility, and how a threat model maps directly to what to watch.

Flying blind: Why onchain monitoring is your instrument panel

Stellar's Developer Preview introduces Confidential Tokens—an OpenZeppelin contract suite adding private balances and transfer amounts to any SEP-41 token.

Developer Preview: Confidential Tokens on Stellar

Tokenization solved issuance. Distribution is the constraint that remains—and the chains that win the next decade are the ones whose assets travel into the apps people already use.

Distribution is the last constraint

Introducing the Quantum Preparedness Plan: fortifying the Stellar network for a post-quantum future. The threats, Stellar's structural advantage, and the three-stage roadmap to quantum-safe cryptography.

Introducing the Quantum Preparedness Plan

This guide is designed to help businesses and developers prepare for Zipper, Protocol 27, with key dates and release information.

Stellar Zipper, Protocol 27 Upgrade Guide

Circle CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) is live on the Stellar network. This upgrade will enhance USDC transfers to and from the Stellar ecosystem, which already supports natively issued USDC.

Circle CCTP is Live on Stellar

José Fernández da Ponte introduces Stellar's Market Development team — senior leaders driving institutional adoption across Latin America, Brazil, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and APAC.

Bringing Stellar to the Regions That Matter

Stellar’s Q1 2026 quarterly update: $2B+ in onchain RWAs, $5.5B in stablecoin payment volume, 86% developer growth, and key protocol upgrades across privacy, agentic payments, and security.

Q1 2026: Execution at network scale

Protocol 26 "Yardstick" brings precision to Stellar: a governed onchain freeze mechanism (CAP-77), checked 256-bit arithmetic, precise TTL control, and more. Live on mainnet May 6, 2026.

Yardstick, Stellar Protocol 26

Learn how Soroban on Stellar enables flexible, detachable authorization with auth trees, sponsored transactions, smart wallets, and composable DeFi contracts.

Stellar’s composable auth model

Denelle Dixon's seventh anniversary reflection on Stellar's bet that traditional finance had to be part of the work, not the target—and what comes next.

Seven years to meet this moment

CAP-77 introduces the first protocol-native, onchain account freeze mechanism on a major L1 blockchain—executed through validator consensus, auditable, and reversible.

Quorum Freeze (CAP-77): A Governed, Onchain Incident Response on Stellar

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There are moments when entire industries shift — from laying the foundation to accelerating the climb. For blockchain and digital assets, that moment is now. And the person stepping in to help lead that next chapter for Stellar is José Fernández da Ponte.

Scaling What’s Proven: José Fernández da Ponte Joins SDF as President & Chief Growth Officer

Marketing at the protocol level is no small task—especially in a space where narratives shift fast and regulation is still coming into resolution. That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome Jason Karsh as Chief Marketing Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation.

Welcoming Jason Karsh, Chief Marketing Officer at SDF

Explore the vulnerabilities of Proof-of-Stake blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, and discover how the Stellar network's Proof-of-Agreement offers a secure alternative.

Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Agreement: The Stellar Network's Security Edge

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