Community
Unlocking our potential
The Stellar network’s community spans the globe—from independent developers in Nigeria to regulated financial companies in Germany. We work together to build an open network and transform the global financial system.
Join our Discord
The Stellar Dev Discord is a community server for events, feedback, questions, mentoring, expert guidance, and street cred.
Join the Conversation
The Stellar network’s community is always buzzing. Explore the resources below to rub virtual shoulders with devs building on the Stellar network, and stay on top of the most important ecosystem updates, and learn about upcoming workshops and events.
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Follow the Stellar Development Foundation on Twitter for the latest updates, news, and community highlights.
Updates and news with a focus on business applications and partnerships, along with articles and thought leadership pieces from industry experts.
Stellar GitHub
Unleash the Stellar network’s full potential by visiting our active hub of innovation on GitHub, the internet’s premier developer repository.
Stack Exchange
You got questions, we got answers. Find them here on our Q&A site for devs and users of the Stellar network.
Start Building
Ecosystem Programs
Stellar Community Fund
The Stellar Community Fund draws on community input to support developers and startups building on the Stellar network and Soroban.
SCF Kickstart (formerly Startup Camp)
A virtual and global bootcamp for startups wanting to submit project applications to the Stellar Community Fund.
The Latest
On-Chain updates
LIVE • Events
• Discord
Stellar Developer and Protocol Meeting
Join us every Thursday to discuss Soroban's latest and greatest features, questions and hot topics!
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• Bri Wylde
Passkeys, a Light Introduction to Improving Blockchain’s UX
Blockchain technology is often recognized and celebrated for its inherent features of transparency, security, efficiency, and decentralization, as…
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• Garand Tyson
Removing Ledger State from SQL Databases in 22.1
Starting in the stellar-core 22.1 release, SQL will no longer be supported for most ledger state and transaction history.
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• Urvi Savla
Horizon: Accelerating Reingestion Performance with CDP
This post explains how Horizon, the HTTP API to data in the Stellar network, can now reingest data 9x faster using CDP components.
Research Contributions
Grants, Workshops, and Publications
The Stellar Development Foundation supports technological and scientific research through its in-house research team and its academic grants program.
Get Involved
Explore the Stellar Social Club
The Stellar Social Club is a place to make connections with other builders, those who are crazy passionate about the Stellar network, and the people behind the scenes at SDF. Point is, trust, communication, and connection are at the heart of it all.
Podcasts & Media
Listen & Learn
Follow our weekly podcasts and videos for all the latest updates and discussions of the Stellar blockchain.
block by block
Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director at Stellar Development Foundation explores how blockchain is transforming real estate, with expert insights…
Tech Talks with Tomer
Tomer Weller, VP of Product at Stellar Development Foundation, speaks with some of the smartest engineers in blockchain about the biggest innovations…
Developers on Stellar: Elliot Voris
It’s time for another edition of Developers on Stellar — and this one’s a bit different because our spotlighted dev became a Stellar Development Foundation employee today! Elliot has been a huge part of the Stellar community for a while, and we’re so excited to have him on the DevRel team. Read on to learn about his developer journey!
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