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OpenZeppelin announces a two-year partnership with Stellar to improve developer experience through Soroban contract libraries, the OpenZeppelin Wizard for Stellar, and developer tooling including relayers, monitors, and code analysis.

OpenZeppelin's contract wizard now integrates Stellar contracts, enabling Soroban developers to generate smart contract code through a simple point-and-click interface. This integration marks a major milestone for developer tooling in the Stellar ecosystem.

Day two of Stellar DevComp focused on Rust fundamentals for Soroban smart contract development. Instructor covered data types, variables, functions, and the ownership model that makes Rust ideal for blockchain applications.

Tutorial on building and deploying Soroban tokens using OpenZeppelin Contract Wizard, which now supports Stellar. Demonstrates creating a fungible token contract with customizable features like minting, burning, and pausing, then deploying it to testnet in minutes.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

Blend Capital hosted a developer meeting showcasing Blend V2 security initiatives, including a $125,000 USDC competitive audit and formal verification competition. The first-ever open security competition in the Stellar ecosystem runs through March 17th, inviting developers to find bugs and write formal verification rules.

OpenZeppelin releases preliminary Soroban smart contract libraries for Stellar, enabling developers to build token contracts in under 100 lines of code using audited, production-ready templates.

Litemint hosted the seventh edition of its on-chain gaming tournament, Cyber Brawl, featuring live gameplay of their card game with prize pools in XLM and USDC. The beta launch tournament showcased new mechanics like overclock and demonstrated Web3 gaming with digital asset ownership on Stellar.

Roberto Durski, Senior Director of Partnerships and RWA at Stellar, discusses the network's evolution over two years, covering smart contracts via Soroban, DeFi growth, stablecoins, real-world assets, and the regulatory landscape for CBDCs and tokenized finance.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP 67 on unified event emissions for classic and Soroban assets, and CAP 63 on parallel transaction execution via staged transaction sets with TTL update semantics changes.

Stellar Development Foundation held Q4 2024 review webinar covering 18 billion total transactions, 9 million network addresses, $52 million smart contract TVL, and announced 2025 strategy focused on top-10 DeFi ranking, 5 million monthly active addresses, and $3 billion in real-world assets.

Stellar protocol 23 introduces partial state archival (CAP 62) and in-memory Soroban state (CAP 66), separating live and archived contract data into distinct databases. Live Soroban state will be cached in memory with optimized fee structures, while automatic restore functionality eliminates the need for separate restore operations in most cases.

Stellar DevRel team discusses 2025 priorities at their San Francisco offsite, highlighting focus on monthly active developers and daily smart contract invocations on Soroban. Key initiatives include passkeys, LaunchTube, and fun on-chain experiences to drive ecosystem growth.

Hoops Finance presented major UI overhaul and new features at Stellar dev meeting, including risk analytics dashboard, API with AI endpoints, and smart savings account contracts using Soroban for automated liquidity management.

Developer demonstrates how to write and deploy an NFT smart contract in Rust to Stellar's Soroban platform, covering contract structure, IPFS metadata storage, and deployment to testnet and mainnet with live minting examples.

Garand from Stellar protocol team presents State Archival, a novel solution to state bloat that assigns TTL values to ledger entries, archives expired data off-chain in Merkle tries, and defends against double restore, malicious archival, and double nonce attacks. Implementation launched on mainnet in February 2025.

Tutorial on deploying a fungible token to Stellar's Soroban network using Rust and WebAssembly, including smart contract initialization, minting, transfers, and integration with Freighter wallet and a React dApp frontend.

Julian from the Stellar Development Foundation compares Solidity and Soroban Rust SDK for smart contract development, building identical hello world contracts in both languages and highlighting Rust's advantages for blockchain including concurrency safety and lower computational overhead.

A Stellar developer discusses Mercury, a data indexing service for Soroban contracts, covering how to use indexers to convert blockchain data into queryable formats, the Zephyr VM for parallel processing, and design decisions around contract storage, events, and data architecture.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector, a price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering a dev contest with XRF token rewards, boilerplate code for cross-contract calls, testing with ledger snapshots, and a predictive market example built on oracle data.

Phoenix DeFi Hub completes Phase 1 on Soroban with live swap and LP functionality. The team is now applying for Phase 2 funding to add routing APIs, fiat onramps via Kato, SubQuery integration, and a public data API for the Stellar ecosystem.

Nicola Dare from SDF explains oracles and the oracle problem in smart contracts. She covers oracle types (software, hardware, cross-chain, compute-enabled), decentralization levels, and how leading oracles solve the challenge of maintaining blockchain security and trustlessness when accessing off-chain data.

Tutorial on Soroban smart contract constructors, explaining how they work during contract deployment, with practical examples of declaring constructors, setting storage, and deploying to testnet.

Developer tutorial on Soroban state management covering persistent, temporary, and instance storage types, rental fees for data storage, and practical code examples for storing and extending contract data on the Stellar blockchain.