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• Bri Wylde
Composability: More connections = More possibilities
Composability is the ability to combine or integrate different components in various ways to create larger, more complex systems. People often use…
• James Bachini
How to Use the OpenZeppelin Contract Wizard to Create a Fungible Token
OpenZeppelin's Contract Wizard now supports Stellar’s smart contracts platform making it easier than ever to generate secure and standardized smart…
• Leigh McCulloch
The Definitive Guide to Testing Smart Contracts on Stellar
Stellar is one of the OG blockchains, online since 2014, and launched smart contracts to Mainnet in 2024. When Stellar added smart contracts, the…
• George Kudrayvtsev
CDP and RPC? More like EZ and PZ.
A blog detailing how the Stellar network's recently released and announced the Composable Data Platform can be used to add backfilling support to…
• Bri Wylde
Passkeys, a Light Introduction to Improving Blockchain’s UX
Blockchain technology is often recognized and celebrated for its inherent features of transparency, security, efficiency, and decentralization, as…
• Garand Tyson
Removing Ledger State from SQL Databases in 22.1
Starting in the stellar-core 22.1 release, SQL will no longer be supported for most ledger state and transaction history.
• Urvi Savla
Horizon: Accelerating Reingestion Performance with CDP
This post explains how Horizon, the HTTP API to data in the Stellar network, can now reingest data 9x faster using CDP components.
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 22 Upgrade Guide
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Soroban
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 22, which introduces constructors and host functions for BLS12-381 to the Stellar network.
• Bri Wylde
Announcing Protocol 22
A new protocol is on the horizon. On December 5, 2024, Stellar public network validators will vote on whether to upgrade the network to Protocol 22,…
• Bri Wylde
Announcing the Stellar i³ Award Winners
During Meridian 2024, the Stellar Development Foundation launched the Stellar i³Awards! 🎉 Powered by the Stellar Community Fund, the awards…
• Simon Chow
Hubble: Now Faster than Light
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Hubble
Learn how Stellar ETL, which has been refactored to use the full suite of benefits from the Composable Data Platform (CDP), the next generation…