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• Anuhya Challagundla
Sorobanathon Road to Mainnet: A Retrospective.
Developers
Soroban
Sorobanathon Road to Mainnet was a month-long virtual hackathon organized by the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) that ran from September 1st to…
• Bri Wylde
Protocol 20: Preparing for Smart Contracts on Stellar
Smart Contracts
Developers
Discover the upcoming Protocol 20 upgrade on the Stellar network, introducing Soroban smart contracts. Learn about the development process, impact on…
• Bri Wylde
RPCiege: Axe & Ember | Get Set Up!
Soroban
Rpciege
RPCiege: Axe & Ember is a text-based adventure game created with smart contracts on Soroban. Anyone can play, even non-coders, and we’re here to show…
• Taylor Murrell
Tokenizing Securities on the Stellar Network
Asset issuance
Tokenization
Learn about the benefits of tokenizing securities on the Stellar blockchain network for both new and existing asset issuers.
• Bri Wylde
Sorobounty Spectacular: Dapp Tutorials You Can Use!
Sorobanathon
Soroban
dapps
The Soroban community has created some amazing dapp tutorials as part of the Sorobounty Spectacular content bounty program. Enjoy!
• Dana Bernard
Explore the Open-Source Solution for Bulk Payments: the Stellar Disbursement Platform
Stellar disbursement platform
Open source
Aid
The Stellar Disbursement Platform is a fully open-source solution that provides anyone with the ability to make bulk payments to recipients around…
• Dana Bernard
Welcoming Zodia Custody as a Technical Host of the Stellar Disbursement Platform
Stellar disbursement platform
Open source
Zodia Custody is the first organization to facilitate technical hosting capabilities for the Stellar Disbursement Platform, serving organizations…
• Taylor Murrell
The Anchor Platform: Creating Access Through On and Off-Ramps
Stellar anchor platform
API
Cross-border payments
Companies can now access not only cross-border payments on the Stellar network, but also two on and off-ramp standards all pre-packaged in the Anchor…
• Taylor Murrell
Introducing the New and Improved Stellar Asset Sandbox
Stellar asset sandbox
Asset issuance
Tokenization
The Stellar Asset Sandbox, a starting point for institutions to explore asset tokenization on the Stellar network with no code required, receives…
• Taylor Murrell
Announcing the Stellar Wallet SDK: Build on Stellar Faster Than Ever Before
Wallet SDK
Learn about the new Stellar Wallet SDK and how it enables faster development on the Stellar network. Discover tools and solutions for building on…
• Bri Wylde
RPCiege Siege 4, Prepare for a Deeper Menace
Learn all about Stellar Quest's latest coding challenge, RPCiege Siege 4.
• Justin Rice
Soroban is Feature Complete
Soroban now has all of its core functionality in place. It is, in other words, feature complete.
Protocol Upgrades
An ever-evolving network
Article
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 23 Upgrade Guide
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 23, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release…
Article
• 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.
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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.
Article
• 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…
Article
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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,…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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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