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• Julian Martinez
Learn Soroban As Easy as 1-2-3 With Community-Made Tooling
Soroban
Ecosystem
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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 20 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
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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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• Garand Tyson
Introducing State Archival: The Solution to State Bloat on Stellar
This article is part of a deep-dive series on the industry’s state bloat problem, which must be solved for blockchains to remain inexpensive, deliver…
• Garand Tyson
Scalability with State Archival on Stellar vs. Solana’s Avocado
A deep-dive on State Archival’s scalability features on the Stellar network and analyzes Solana’s less efficient version of State Archival called…
• Stellar Development Foundation
Soroban: The Smart Contract Platform Designed for Developers
Smart contracts
DeFi
Soroban
The Stellar smart contract platform, focuses on three critical pillars: Performance, Sustainability, Security. These factors are crucial for building…
• Bri Wylde
Protocol 21 is Live on Stellar Mainnet
On June 18th, 2024, Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade the network to Protocol 21, which activates five new Core Advancement…
• Bri Wylde
Announcing the Deep Dive Docs Bounty
Starting May 29th through August 7th, 2024 get awarded for contributing to the Stellar Developer Docs as part of the Deep Dive Docs Bounty (it’s…
• Bri Wylde
Announcing Protocol 21
Soroban, the smart contract platform on Stellar, launched on Mainnet following a successful validator vote on February 20, 2024. And after almost…
• 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…
• Garand Tyson
Upcoming Database Changes in Protocol 21
In Protocol 21, Soroban is getting its first big upgrade with the implementation of five new CAPs that introduce some exciting features, such as…
• Stellar Development Foundation
The Soroban Audit Bank: Fostering a Secure Smart Contract Ecosystem
The Stellar Development Foundation Security Audit Bank will distribute up to $1M in security audit credits in coordination with six top-tier audit…
• Nicole Adair
Smart Contracts Made Simple: Dogfooding Soroban at the SDF
Last month, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) ran a dogfooding experiment with a core question: can we get every single employee, no matter…
• Bri Wylde
Auth (-entication) and (-orization) in blockchain
Blockchains are public ledgers that individuals use to create, store, and move value in the open, and devising methods to ensure security is critical…
• Julian Martinez
EVM to Soroban Understanding Data Types | Solidity to Rust Series Pt. 2
Data types are critical in programming, serving to define the kind of data we deal with. They ensure data integrity, consistency, and efficient…
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