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Web3 development should be simple. Stellar’s tools and grants make it easy to deploy and scale.

Quick start

Dev Tools

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

Smart Contracts

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

Dev Docs

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

Validators

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

Stellar Lab

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

Tutorials

Start with the basics

Intermediate

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dApps

Code Walkthroughs

Build a Soroban Payments dApp | 8/9/2023

Build and Deploy a Payments dApp in the Latest Soroban Dapps Challenge. Learn more about developer challenges at…

Intermediate

25:53

Developer Workshop

NFT

Build an NFT Ticketing Platform on Soroban | 12/12/2023

Build an NFT Ticketing Platform on Soroban: Create your first NFT application using Okashi.dev's online smart contract playground. This step-by-step…

Intermediate

13:23

Developer Workshop

dApps

Build and Deploy a Crowdfunding dApp in Rust | 6/28/2023

Build a Crowdfunding dApp on Soroban: Create a complete decentralized crowdfunding application using Rust on Stellar's smart contract…

Intermediate

54:36

CLI

Smart Contracts

Developer Workshop

Compile, Test, Deploy and Call Smart Contracts w/ Net2Dev | 1/1/2024

Learn to set up your Soroban development environment from scratch! This comprehensive guide walks through writing, compiling, testing, and deploying…

Metrics

Committed to scale

*in the last 30 days

$0.0007667

Average cost of a Stellar transaction

Commits

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January 12, 2026

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Last week

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26,855

Online

1272

TVL

$146M

and counting

TVL over time

175.9M USD

January 24, 2026

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Stellar Core Concepts

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

Stellar Network Architecture

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

Consensus Protocol

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

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