Adapter (Protocol 28) is a builder-focused Stellar upgrade: faster consensus, atomic upgrades for contract fleets, and migration-friendly contract data.

Introducing Adapter, Protocol 28 on Stellar

Prepare for Adapter, Protocol 28 on Stellar: key dates, release links, preparation steps for SDKs, infrastructure, and validators, and a summary of breaking changes.

Adapter, Protocol 28 Upgrade Guide

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Stellar's Q2 2026 quarterly update: $3B in real-world assets, $11.4B in stablecoin transfer volume, 2,968 monthly active developers (up 125% YoY), and a product roadmap spanning privacy, AI agents, and post-quantum security.

Q2 2026: What Stellar was built for has arrived

The Stellar Ambassador Program is a global, four-tier program for the builders, educators, and community leaders growing the Stellar ecosystem from the ground up.

Introducing the Stellar Ambassador Program

In financial infrastructure, boring is the highest compliment. Why Stellar’s twelve years of stable protocol guarantees—safety over liveness, no MEV, no reorgs—are exactly what an institution needs before putting a balance sheet onchain.

Boring is a feature

SDF's security and risk standards for DeFi protocols on Stellar: audits, bug bounties, economic modeling, governance, incident response, and transparency.

Stellar DeFi Security Standards and Best Practices

A hands-on tutorial for setting up onchain monitoring on Stellar with Hypernative, from large XLM transfer alerts to Blend pool utilization monitoring.

Monitoring Stellar with Hypernative

Onchain monitoring is your instrument panel. Why builders and users alike need real-time visibility, and how a threat model maps directly to what to watch.

Flying blind: Why onchain monitoring is your instrument panel

Stellar's Developer Preview introduces Confidential Tokens—an OpenZeppelin contract suite adding private balances and transfer amounts to any SEP-41 token.

Developer Preview: Confidential Tokens on Stellar

Tokenization solved issuance. Distribution is the constraint that remains—and the chains that win the next decade are the ones whose assets travel into the apps people already use.

Distribution is the last constraint

Introducing the Quantum Preparedness Plan: fortifying the Stellar network for a post-quantum future. The threats, Stellar's structural advantage, and the three-stage roadmap to quantum-safe cryptography.

Introducing the Quantum Preparedness Plan

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There are moments when entire industries shift — from laying the foundation to accelerating the climb. For blockchain and digital assets, that moment is now. And the person stepping in to help lead that next chapter for Stellar is José Fernández da Ponte.

Scaling What’s Proven: José Fernández da Ponte Joins SDF as President & Chief Growth Officer

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Welcoming Jason Karsh, Chief Marketing Officer at SDF

Explore the vulnerabilities of Proof-of-Stake blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, and discover how the Stellar network's Proof-of-Agreement offers a secure alternative.

Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Agreement: The Stellar Network's Security Edge

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The company you keep

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Stellar DeFi Security Standards and Best Practices

Monitoring Stellar with Hypernative

Flying blind: Why onchain monitoring is your instrument panel

Developer Preview: Confidential Tokens on Stellar

Distribution is the last constraint

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