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A comprehensive collection of resources, utilities, and development frameworks for building on the Stellar Network.

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Complete tools and documentation for creating, testing, and deploying smart contracts on the Stellar Network.

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Detailed technical documentation including API references, SDK implementations, and comprehensive CLI guides.

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Introduction to validators - learn about Stellar Core validator nodes, setup procedures, operations, and maintenance tasks.

Validators

A comprehensive testing environment for experimenting with Stellar features and network capabilities.

Stellar Lab

Detailed step-by-step visual guides covering fundamental to advanced Stellar concepts and implementations.

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Unpack the essential principles and technical foundations of the Stellar network.

Stellar Core Concepts

Understand the fundamental structure and components that power the Stellar network.

Stellar Network Architecture

Deep dive into the consensus mechanism that ensures network security and efficiency.

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Enterprises can now adopt blockchain with confidence—ZK tools deliver financial privacy without sacrificing public ledger transparency. 

Your Paycheck Is Private. So, Why Isn’t Your Blockchain Payment?

Zero-knowledge proofs enable private, compliant, scalable blockchain applications. Discover zkTokens, zkLogin, zkKYC, zkVoting, and zkVM innovation on Stellar.

5 Real-World Zero-Knowledge Use Cases

Learn how composability on Stellar works in practice, with a real DeFi case study using Soroban smart contracts, wallets, and yield protocols.

Composability on Stellar: From Concept to Reality 

We’re consolidating our Golang developer tools - including the Horizon and RPC clients, Ingest SDK, and key utilities - into a single, unified Go SDK for Stellar. This change simplifies the developer experience, improves discoverability, and aligns the Go ecosystem with the structure of other Stellar SDKs.

Introducing the Golang Stellar SDK

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol X-Ray, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release information, a changelog, and more.

Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25 Upgrade Guide

A new protocol upgrade is coming up for the Stellar network: X-Ray! This upgrade begins laying the groundwork for developers to build configurable, compliance-forward privacy applications using zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography without compromising the transparency that defines Stellar.

Announcing Stellar X-Ray, Protocol 25

Stellar Core v24.1.0 ensures complete network history replay from genesis, capturing all token movements and fulfilling Stellar Events' original promise after a recent state archival issue caused some events to be omitted. 

Reconciling Stellar Events

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Access complete documentation, tools, and tutorials to build on Stellar. Start developing Soroban smart contracts or create powerful blockchain applications today.

The Stellar network is an open-source blockchain used for a variety of payment and remittance applications. Learn about the non-profit Stellar Development Foundation and the fundamentals of how the network works.

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The Stellar network is an open-source blockchain for payments & asset tokenization. Stellar offers tools and a global ecosystem of developers, entrepreneurs & enterprises.

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