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Merkle Science, a Web3 risk and compliance platform, partnered with Stellar Development Foundation to bring its Compass transaction monitoring tool to the Stellar network, providing developers and operators with institutional-grade security and compliance solutions.

SDF launched the Anchor Platform at Meridian, a new product that reduces development time for fintechs integrating into Stellar by translating existing APIs into SEP-compliant interfaces. Bitso and Red Chapina are already using it for cross-border payments.

Soroban, Stellar's smart contracts platform, is now live on Futurenet. The SDF launched Sorobanathon: First Light, the first program under its $100M Soroban Adoption Fund, offering developers 250-3,000 XLM rewards for creating tutorials, code examples, and documentation.

Stellar Development Foundation announced Soroban, its native smart contracts platform, is now live on Futurenet testnet, alongside a $100M adoption fund to support developers building on the platform.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced a $100M Soroban Adoption Fund to support developers building on Soroban, its native smart contracts platform now live on Futurenet. The fund includes Sorobanathon: First Light, an incentive program rewarding developers for testing and providing feedback.

Soroban, Stellar's native smart contract platform, launched on Futurenet with a $100 million Adoption Fund from the Stellar Development Foundation. The platform emphasizes lower gas fees and consistent pricing through optimized contract design and a calibrated fee model.

Stellar Quest Learn launches Level Three with XLM rewards (up to 100 XLM total), introduces a Pioneer Quest for wallet onboarding, and removes wallet connection requirements to reduce friction for new users.

Litemint has launched decentralized NFT auctions on the Stellar blockchain, utilizing time-bound transactions, pre-authorized transactions, and path payments for secure, trustless execution. The system ensures no third-party custody, bid protection until auction end, reserve price enforcement, and participant withdrawal rights. Full settlement occurs on the Stellar DEX via a pre-authorized contract transaction.

Stellar's developer documentation received a major overhaul with new structure, reorganized sections including a new Fundamentals and Concepts area, and an expanded Encyclopedia. The update aims to improve the developer experience with iterative improvements rolling out over coming months.

Stellar Development Foundation released the second preview of Soroban, its smart contracts platform, featuring built-in contracts, expanded metering, a new Auth SDK, and significant SDK/CLI improvements including new commands for local development and contract inspection.

Stellar Protocol 19 enables payment channels through CAP-21 and CAP-40, allowing off-chain transactions at 1.19 million payments per second while maintaining cryptographic security. Starlight demonstrates this capability with only three on-chain transactions needed regardless of channel activity.

The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled Soroban, a new smart contracts platform built on WebAssembly and Rust. The preview release lets developers write and test contracts locally, marking the SDF's first early-stage public preview and inviting community feedback.

Stellar network successfully upgraded to Protocol 19 on June 8, 2022, introducing new transaction preconditions and signer types that enable payment channels, blockchain bridges, and key recovery solutions.

Freighter 2.0, the Stellar browser wallet, now enables users to create, sign, and submit transactions directly from the extension, including trustline management and payments. The update features a refreshed UI built on the Stellar Design System and sets the foundation for future capabilities like asset swaps and claimable balance management.

Stellar validators will vote on Protocol 19 upgrade on June 8, 2022, introducing new transaction preconditions and signer types to enable payment channels, bridges, and key recovery solutions. The upgrade enables Layer 2 scaling with Starlight prototype achieving 1.19 million payments per second.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced Project Jump Cannon will use WebAssembly (WASM) as its smart contract runtime. After evaluating EVM, Move, eBPF, and other options, the SDF chose WASM for its robust execution environment, thriving ecosystem, and alignment with Stellar's values of safety, scalability, and equitable access.

Stellar Quest is splitting into two components: Stellar Quest Learn, an evergreen educational platform launching today with five initial quests and NFT badges, and Stellar Quest Live for periodic competitive events. The redesign addresses community feedback about accessibility and consistent engagement.

The Script3 team announces that YieldBlox Protocol will delay its mainnet launch on Stellar Turrets and instead wait for Stellar's on-chain smart contracts due to superior security, community focus, and feasibility concerns. They detail the decision process following SDF's roadmap announcement and unsuccessful grant proposal. The project remains committed to launching securely with the YBX token once smart contracts are ready.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced its 2022 roadmap, with smart contracts as the primary focus. SDF plans to research, develop, and collaborate with the community to implement smart contracts on Stellar while maintaining the network's core values of accessibility, security, and low fees.

Muxed accounts, a Stellar feature that maps a single address to multiple virtual accounts, are now live and available to all ecosystem products. All services must support sending to muxed accounts, while custodial services should implement them on the receive side to eliminate memo-related user errors.

Stellar Core v18.2.0 introduces a traffic-shaping feature to mitigate failed arbitrage bot transactions that have been bloating the ledger and increasing network fees. The feature allows validators to filter circular path payment transactions destined to fail while preserving healthy arbitrage activity.

Stellar Development Foundation introduces Starlight, a Layer 2 payment channel protocol achieving 1+ million payments per second while maintaining fast finality. The protocol leverages new Stellar protocol upgrades (CAP-21, CAP-40) and buffering techniques to enable high-throughput transactions between two participants.

Meridian 2021 tech talks are now available on demand, featuring SDF Engineering team presentations on Starlight payment channels, SPEEDEX decentralized exchange, Horizon 2.0, KYC processes, SDKs, Stellar Turrets for DeFi, Stellar Core, and Stellar Ecosystem Proposals.

Stellar launched Protocol 18 on Nov. 3, integrating native automated market maker (AMM) functionality into its Layer 1 DEX. The upgrade enables permissionless liquidity pool creation with fixed 0.3% fees, positioning Stellar as the first L1 blockchain with AMM capabilities built directly into its protocol.

Stellar upgraded to Protocol 18, adding native AMM functionality to the blockchain. This enables liquidity pools for cross-currency payments without smart contracts or high gas fees, making Stellar one of the earliest Layer 1 blockchains with protocol-native AMMs.

Stellar Quest Series 4 launches today with a new competitive challenge structure. The gamified educational platform has grown to 40,000+ visitors and 2,700+ unique accounts across three series, teaching developers Stellar fundamentals through hands-on coding challenges and NFT badge rewards.