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Developers
• Stellar Development Foundation
Horizon just got a lot better: our new ingestion engine and other great stuff
Horizon
Ingestion
API
We made a fundamental change to Horizon’s architecture and built a completely new system for ingesting data.
Foundation News
• Stellar Development Foundation
Announcing the New Stellar.org
Brand
Website
In our most meta blog post yet, we are excited to announce the new stellar.org.
Policy
• Denelle Dixon
Blockchain Policy: Getting It Right
Policy
Regulation
Compliance
We headed to Washington, DC last week to meet with U.S. policymakers, regulators, and non-governmental organizations to talk about the Stellar…
Developers
• Nikhil Saraf
Kelp: Why We Built It — The Liquidity Problem
Kelp
Liquidity
To help market makers automate bids and manage spreads, we developed Kelp, a 100% open-source market-making and trading bot, built for the Stellar…
Developers
• Stellar Development Foundation
Why Quorums Matter and How Stellar Approaches Them
Stellar consensus protocol
Proof-of-agreement
Quorums
Today we released stellar-core v11.2, an upgrade that includes some crucial improvements to quorum set configuration and monitoring.
Foundation News
• Denelle Dixon
Where We Are Headed
Denelle Dixon
I’ve been at the Stellar Development Foundation for just over six weeks. Given “all of the time” I now have under my belt (a whole lot from the…
Foundation News
• Stellar Development Foundation
Introducing Meridian
Meridian
We are excited to announce the first SDF-sponsored conference, Stellar Meridian, which will be held on November 4th and 5th 2019 in Mexico City at…
Developers
• Stellar Development Foundation
Stellar Protocol 11 Public Network Upgrade
Protocol upgrade
SDK
Currently the planned coordination to upgrade the Stellar public network to Protocol 11 is scheduled for June 10th, 2019 at 1600 UTC.
Developers
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 11 Improvements
Protocol upgrade
In advance of that vote, we wanted to walk you through some improvements introduced in that version of the protocol, and to let you know what they…
Developers
• Stellar Development Foundation
May 15th Network Halt
Network halt
At 1:14pm Pacific time, May 15th, the Stellar network halted for 67 minutes due to an inability to reach consensus. During that time no ledgers were…
Developers
• Alex Cordeiro
A New Ticker for the Stellar Community
Ticker
API
Horizon
We're very happy to announce that Stellar Development Foundation is releasing a new ticker API to provide the freshest data about Markets, Issuers…
Developers
• Oleg Andreev
ZkVM: a new design for fast, confidential smart contracts
Smart contracts
Zkvm
We’re excited to announce ZkVM, the zero-knowledge virtual machine. ZkVM is an experimental multi-asset blockchain architecture for scalable and…