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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.

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Protocol Upgrades

An ever-evolving network

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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 19 Upgrade Guide

A dev guide to upgrading to Protocol 19.

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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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Simon Chow

Hubble: Now Faster than Light

Data

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…

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Jane Wang

Introducing the All-New Stellar Lab

We’re thrilled to introduce the new Stellar Lab, your go-to tool for development, experimenting, and testing, as well as exploring APIs developers…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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