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• Julian Martinez
Learn Soroban As Easy as 1-2-3 With Community-Made Tooling
Soroban
Ecosystem
Projects
The thriving Soroban ecosystem of over 70 projects has demonstrated consistent commitment to fostering developer growth by way of educational…
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• Bri Wylde
A Developer’s Guide to Soroban Adoption Fund Programs Pt. 2
Soroban
Programs
Smart contracts
Here's the latest updates on the Soroban Adoption Fund Programs, including: the Stellar Community Fund, RPCiege, the Sorobounty Spectacular, and more.
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• Julian Martinez
The Essential Guide to Rust Development
Soroban
Rust
Your essential programming guide to developing on Rust.
Protocol Upgrades
An ever-evolving network
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• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 22 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Soroban
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 22, which introduces constructors and host functions for BLS12-381 to the Stellar network.
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• Nicole Adair
Protocol 21 Upgrade Guide
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 21, which introduces secp256r1, improvements to state archival, and fee optimizations to the Stellar…
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• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 20 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Soroban
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 19 Upgrade Complete!
Today, June 8, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 19! If you're having trouble with your Stellar…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 18 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
AMM
Liquidity
Today, November 3, 2021 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 18. It's a big day and a big upgrade because it…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 18 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
AMM
Liquidity
Protocol 18, which enables the creation of AMMs on Stellar, is coming! If you develop on Stellar, you need to install up-to-date versions of all…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 17 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Asset clawback
Regulation
Today, June 1, 2021 at 1500 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 17, which introduces a new feature designed to make it…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 17 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Asset clawback
Regulation
If you develop on Stellar, you need to prepare for the June 1, 2021 Protocol 17 network upgrade by installing up-to-date versions of all…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 16 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Network halt
Today, April 10, 20201 at 1500 UTC, Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade the network to Protocol 16. This special network upgrade was…
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• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 16 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Network halt
We just released a new version of Stellar Core that will resolve the issues many nodes experienced this week. If you run a Stellar node of any kind,…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 15 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Sponsored reserves
Claimable balances
On 11/23/2020 at 1600 UTC, Stellar validators voted to upgrade the public network to Protocol 15. Two new features — Claimable Balances and Sponsored…
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• Justin Rice
Announcing...Stellar Protocol 15
Protocol upgrade
Claimable balances
Sponsored reserves
It turns out we're skipping the public network upgrade to Protocol 14. Instead, we're going straight to Protocol 15, and rescheduling the vote to…
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• Danny Gamboa
Smart Contract Wallet Origins and The Future of Crypto Management
On and off-ramps
Wallets
Soroban
Smart Contracts
A look into the history of storing value. How wallets have evolved over time and what makes a smart (contract) wallet something builders and users…
• Stellar Development Foundation
Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge Winners
The winners of the 6 week Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge included gamified recycling dApps, epic video tutorial series and even…
• Anke Liu
Introducing Stellar Community Fund v6.0
The Stellar Community Fund enters its sixth iteration with a renewed focus on strategic ecosystem growth. Leveraging Stellar's new smart contract…
• Urvi Savla
Introducing Galexie: Efficiently Extract and Store Stellar Data
Data
Developer Tool
Galexie is the first component of the Stellar Composable Data Platform, the next generation data-access platform. Galexie is a lightweight…
• Molly Karcher
Composable Data Platform: A New Way to Access Data on Stellar
Developer Tool
Data
This article is the first in an expansive series on the Composable Data Platform, the next generation data-access platform on Stellar. The Composable…
• Danny Gamboa
Introducing: Anchor Network Interactive Map
On and off-ramps
Stellar anchor platform
Discover how to Bridge Traditional Finance and Digital Assets in over 180 Countries.
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