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Bri Wylde

An Introduction to Vibe Coding

Discover vibe coding, an AI-assisted approach to building software faster. Learn best practices, tools, and tips to level up your coding workflow.

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Urvi Savla

RPC: Now with Infinite Scroll

Access the Entire Stellar Ledger History via RPC – We’ve integrated RPC with the Stellar ledger data lake, letting you query any ledger from genesis…

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Karthik Iyer

Follow the Money: Token Transfer Processor Makes Tracking a Breeze

TTP is a Go package that automatically generates clean, standardized events for every token movement on the network.

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Sydney Wiseman

Stellar Events: Retroactive Events

When Protocol 23 rolls out later this year, CAP-67 won’t just start emitting events for new ledgers. It can also generate events for past ledgers if…

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Simon Chow

Stellar Events: Track All the Things

Have you ever wondered what happens under the hood when a transaction or smart contract executes? Good news. CAP-67 introduces a single, structured…

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Stellar Development Foundation

The Road to 5000 TPS: Scaling Stellar in 2025

In 2025, one of the Stellar Development Foundation’s (SDF) primary goals is to increase Stellar Core’s theoretical throughput to 5000 transactions…

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Marta Lokhava

Parallelizing Stellar Core: The First Step Toward 5000 TPS

At the Stellar Development Foundation, our focus is on supporting real-world use cases and meeting the evolving demands of the Stellar ecosystem.…

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Stellar Development Foundation

How Trust Works on Stellar

Roadmap

Stellar concensus protocol

Developer

This article describes how the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), which operates three high-availability Stellar-network validator nodes, decides…

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Justin Rice

Decentralization, Double Time

Roadmap

Stellar concensus protocol

Developer

Expanding Stellar tier-1 validators is a key piece of SDF's 2025 roadmap. There are currently have 7 tier-1 organizations that allow the network to…

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 23 Upgrade Guide

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 23, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release…

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Bri Wylde

Announcing Protocol 23

Protocol 23 introduces eight (!!) new Core Advancement Proposals (CAPs) to the Stellar network, detailed in this blog.

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Anke Liu

Soroban Security Audit Bank: Raising the Standard for Smart Contract Security

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is deeply committed to helping ensure that the highest security standards are available for projects…

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Protocol Upgrades

An ever-evolving network

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 23 Upgrade Guide

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 23, designed to help businesses and developers prepare for the upgrade with key dates, release…

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 22 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

Soroban

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 22, which introduces constructors and host functions for BLS12-381 to the Stellar network.

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Nicole Adair

Protocol 21 Upgrade Guide

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 21, which introduces secp256r1, improvements to state archival, and fee optimizations to the Stellar…

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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.

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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 19 Upgrade Guide

A dev guide to upgrading to Protocol 19.

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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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