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Paltalabs led a developer workshop at ETHChile 2024 teaching Soroban smart contracts and Soroswap AMM mechanics. The session covered Stellar's cross-border payment design, contract fundamentals, liquidity pooling, and asset swaps for Latin American builders.

Floripa Web3 event in Florianópolis on August 9, 2024 featured Nearx experts Lucas Bispo de Oliveira and Caio Mattos discussing Rust, Soroban SDK, and the free Stellar Bootcamp program for blockchain developers.

Validation Cloud announced support for Stellar Horizon, offering high-performance Node API infrastructure with archive node data access. The service enables developers to build wallets, DEXs, and other applications on Stellar with improved performance and historical data querying capabilities.

A technical tutorial on building a custom indexer and API for the YieldBlox blend pool using Mercury and Zephyr. The guide covers setting up a Rust-based indexer to track borrow, repay, and collateral actions on Stellar, with real-time data retrieval through a custom API.

Stellar has released an interactive Anchor Network Map that visualizes the global reach of Stellar anchors across 180 countries. The map enables developers and financial institutions to discover on/off-ramp services and understand payment rail coverage by region.

Reflector is a decentralized oracle protocol for Stellar that provides reliable price feeds for smart contracts and DeFi applications. The protocol is governed by the Reflector DAO using the xRF utility token, which enables governance, rewards cluster operators, and provides access to advanced price feed subscriptions.

Tansu deployed its Soroban smart contract to testnet with event handling infrastructure now live. The governance platform released a Python library on PyPI. Upcoming milestones: dApp proof-of-concept, FastAPI backend, and continuous contract deployment.

The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q2 2024 quarterly report, highlighting network growth to 8.4 million addresses, real-world asset supply exceeding $598 million, and significant progress in tokenization and Soroban adoption. The report showcases achievements including WisdomTree's expanded retail access, $7.8 million in enterprise investments, and $5 million in Stellar Community Fund awards to 107 projects.

Etherfuse, a tokenized real-world assets platform, raised $3 million in seed funding co-led by White Star Capital and North Island Ventures, with participation from the Stellar Development Foundation. The company is tokenizing emerging market government debt on Stellar and Solana blockchains, starting with Latin American sovereign bonds.

Stellar introduces State Archival, a protocol solution to blockchain state bloat that archives unused ledger entries while maintaining security through Merkle proofs stored in History Archives. This approach enables Stellar to maintain low validator costs, high throughput, and scalability without requiring expensive hardware.

Tansu has received an SCF28 Activation award to build infrastructure that anchors Git commit hashes on Soroban. The system creates a decentralized record of code changes, helping maintainers verify project integrity and combat centralized platform risks without disrupting existing workflows.

A comprehensive tutorial on migrating smart contracts from Ethereum's Solidity to Soroban's Rust SDK, comparing the two platforms and demonstrating how to build a Hello World contract in both languages.

BlockEden.xyz unveiled their Soroban Indexer and GraphQL at Stellar's Meridian conference in Madrid from September 26–28, 2023. The article shares their pitch deck with 13 slides showcasing the innovations. Contact details and source link are provided.

Stellar has launched a new passkey feature that brings Web2-style user experience to Web3, enabling users to sign transactions and verify contracts using biometrics instead of traditional 2FA. The non-custodial solution leverages Soroban and secp256r1 to provide enhanced security, reliability, and accessibility for decentralized finance.

Goldsky announces the general availability of Mirror, its realtime crypto data streaming platform that syncs onchain data directly to user databases. It supports 40+ networks including Stellar, reducing costs and ETL complexity. The platform offers blazing-fast performance, dual interfaces, and is now accessible to everyone without a credit card.

Stellar's Protocol 21 upgrade activated on June 18, 2024, introducing five Core Advancement Proposals (CAPs) that enable passkey support for smart contracts, improve state archival, and reduce transaction costs through VM optimization and module caching.

A step-by-step tutorial for setting up three Stellar Core validation nodes on Ubuntu 22.04, covering domain configuration, PostgreSQL setup, and Stellar Core installation with example configuration files.

Reflector launches a dev challenge (June 5-19) for Soroban contracts utilizing its oracle. Prizes: $2,500 USDC plus Meridian conference tickets. Open to developers worldwide ages 18+; teams welcome.

Stellar and Soroban documentation sites have merged into a unified developer experience. The Stellar Development Foundation is launching the Deep Dive Docs Bounty program from May 29 to August 7, 2024, offering XLM rewards for community contributions to improve developer documentation.

This article introduces Stellar and its Soroban smart contract platform to Polkadot users, highlighting integration via the Spacewalk bridge by Pendulum. It covers asset transfers for Stellar's stablecoins, use cases in DeFi and payments, and provides a getting started guide. The synergy aims to enhance cross-chain financial inclusion and innovation.

The development team released updates including a custom risk framework creation UI with drag-and-drop support, Lido liquid staking analytics, and Stellar chain analytics data pipelines and dashboards. Additional progress includes AVS architecture setup, blockification processor upgrade, storage proof POC, protocol native token tracking, and RTM creation UX redesign.

Stellar is a leader in tokenized investment assets, enabling issuers to tokenize securities, commodities, and financial products like money market funds, ETFs, and bonds. The network offers benefits including cost reduction, operational efficiency, compliance controls, and fast 3-5 second transaction times.

Stellar's Protocol 21 upgrade, scheduled for a validator vote on June 18, 2024, introduces five Core Advancement Proposals including passkey signing support via secp256r1 verification, improved state archival functions, and three cost optimization CAPs for Soroban smart contracts.

The development team shares updates from April 26, 2024, including bug fixes, new UI testing for the Custom Risk Framework, and live Governance and Tokenomics V2 dashboards. Key advancements feature Stellar Soroban nodes deployment, internal client readiness, and API support for circuit generators. Additional improvements cover data pipelines, price oracles for Optimism tokens, and Ethereum/NEAR analytics.