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• Julian Martinez
Learn Soroban As Easy as 1-2-3 With Community-Made Tooling
Soroban
Ecosystem
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The thriving Soroban ecosystem of over 70 projects has demonstrated consistent commitment to fostering developer growth by way of educational…
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• Bri Wylde
A Developer’s Guide to Soroban Adoption Fund Programs Pt. 2
Soroban
Programs
Smart contracts
Here's the latest updates on the Soroban Adoption Fund Programs, including: the Stellar Community Fund, RPCiege, the Sorobounty Spectacular, and more.
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• Julian Martinez
The Essential Guide to Rust Development
Soroban
Rust
Your essential programming guide to developing on Rust.
Protocol Upgrades
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• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 20 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
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Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 19 Upgrade Complete!
Today, June 8, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 19! If you're having trouble with your Stellar…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 18 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
AMM
Liquidity
Today, November 3, 2021 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 18. It's a big day and a big upgrade because it…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 18 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
AMM
Liquidity
Protocol 18, which enables the creation of AMMs on Stellar, is coming! If you develop on Stellar, you need to install up-to-date versions of all…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 17 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Asset clawback
Regulation
Today, June 1, 2021 at 1500 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 17, which introduces a new feature designed to make it…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 17 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Asset clawback
Regulation
If you develop on Stellar, you need to prepare for the June 1, 2021 Protocol 17 network upgrade by installing up-to-date versions of all…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 16 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Network halt
Today, April 10, 20201 at 1500 UTC, Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade the network to Protocol 16. This special network upgrade was…
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• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 16 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Network halt
We just released a new version of Stellar Core that will resolve the issues many nodes experienced this week. If you run a Stellar node of any kind,…
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• Justin Rice
Protocol 15 Upgrade Complete!
Protocol upgrade
Sponsored reserves
Claimable balances
On 11/23/2020 at 1600 UTC, Stellar validators voted to upgrade the public network to Protocol 15. Two new features — Claimable Balances and Sponsored…
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• Justin Rice
Announcing...Stellar Protocol 15
Protocol upgrade
Claimable balances
Sponsored reserves
It turns out we're skipping the public network upgrade to Protocol 14. Instead, we're going straight to Protocol 15, and rescheduling the vote to…
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• Stellar Development Foundation
The Soroban Audit Bank: Fostering a Secure Smart Contract Ecosystem
The Stellar Development Foundation Security Audit Bank will distribute up to $1M in security audit credits in coordination with six top-tier audit…
• Nicole Adair
Smart Contracts Made Simple: Dogfooding Soroban at the SDF
Last month, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) ran a dogfooding experiment with a core question: can we get every single employee, no matter…
• Bri Wylde
Auth (-entication) and (-orization) in blockchain
Blockchains are public ledgers that individuals use to create, store, and move value in the open, and devising methods to ensure security is critical…
• Julian Martinez
EVM to Soroban Understanding Data Types | Solidity to Rust Series Pt. 2
Data types are critical in programming, serving to define the kind of data we deal with. They ensure data integrity, consistency, and efficient…
• Justin Rice
Validator Guide to Soroban Mainnet Phase 1
Soroban
Protocol upgrade
How Stellar validators can arm their nodes to upgrade Mainnet settings for Phase 1 of the Soroban rollout
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 20 and Smart Contracts Are Live on Mainnet
Smart Contracts
On Feb. 20, Stellar network validators voted to upgrade Mainnet to Protocol 20, kicking off a new era for the Stellar smart contracts tech stack,…
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol 20 Upgrade Guide
Protocol upgrade
Soroban
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.
• Julian Martinez
Rust vs. Solidity: Choosing the Best Smart Contract Language for Blockchain Development
Developers
Smart Contracts
Explore why blockchain developers are increasingly opting for Rust over Solidity. Discover Rust's advantages, including speed, efficiency, memory…
• Stellar Development Foundation
New Protocol 20 Vote
Protocol upgrade
Soroban
Smart Contracts
The vote on the Mainnet upgrade to Protocol 20 will take place on February 20, 2024.
• Stellar Development Foundation
SDF’s Vote to Postpone Protocol 20 Upgrade
SDF will disarm its validators and vote to postpone the vote to upgrade to Protocol 20 scheduled for January 30, 2024.
• Stellar Development Foundation
Fee Bump Bug Disclosure and the Impact on the Protocol 20 Upgrade
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Developer
Smart Contracts
Important information regarding the Protocol 20 Upgrade
• Tomer Weller
The Stellar Network’s Phased Rollout of Smart Contracts: The Road to Mainnet
Soroban
Smart contracts
Developers
Protocol upgrade
The release of a full suite of software that supports Protocol 20, which will bring Soroban smart contracts to Stellar is available. With the…
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