DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Stellar Development Foundation invested $5 million in Abra, a cryptocurrency wallet and investment platform. The investment will integrate Abra with Stellar as its blockchain backend, expanding financial services to emerging markets and creating new products for the Stellar network.
The Stellar Development Foundation invested $5 million in Abra, a crypto wallet service, to integrate Stellar's blockchain into Abra's payment and investment products. The partnership aims to expand financial services on Stellar and improve access to on and off ramps for traditional finance.
The Stellar Foundation partnered with blockchain forensics firm Elliptic to help Stellar-based businesses screen transactions for money laundering, sanctions, and compliance risks. The service is optional for businesses; XLM wallet users won't be automatically surveilled. Stellar argues regulatory compliance and privacy can coexist.
Elliptic launches the first XLM transaction monitoring system in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, enabling financial institutions and cryp…
Stellar Protocol 13 upgrade is coming to mainnet on 06/18/2020. Developers must update Horizon, SDKs, and custom integrations before the network votes to upgr…
The Stellar Development Foundation's web products team is seeking community feedback on a redesigned version of the Stellar developer documentation and API reference. The new docs feature improved navigation, modular learning paths, and updated content while maintaining existing functionality.
The Stellar Development Foundation explains Issuer-Enforced Finality, a key feature enabling stablecoin issuers to maintain authoritative control over asset ownership on a permissionless network, contrasting Stellar's approach with Ethereum's vulnerability to double-spend attacks.
The Stellar Development Foundation will present at Consensus: Distributed 2020, sharing updates on network growth, strategic investments, and ecosystem success stories focused on interoperability and financial inclusion.
The Stellar Development Foundation appointed Lin-Hua Wu (Dropbox CCO) and Ronaldo Lemos (Brazilian tech lawyer and academic) to its board of directors, expanding the board to five members to strengthen governance in communications, policy, and regulatory affairs.
The Stellar Development Foundation reflects on why open source is the right model for building networks, highlighting documentation, transparency, collaboration, and diversity as key pillars that enable Stellar to thrive across borders and time zones.
The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q1 2020 quarterly report, highlighting progress on strategic growth pillars including Horizon API improvements, policy advocacy, marketing initiatives, and a strategic investment in DSTOQ to expand financial access in emerging markets.
SEP-29 enables exchanges and wallets to solve the "forgotten memo" problem on Stellar. Exchanges can now require memos by setting a simple data entry flag, while wallets upgraded to the latest SDK will automatically prevent memo-less payments to those addresses.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced a 2.5M XLM donation-matching program for April in partnership with Lumenthropy, supporting six charities including UNICEF, The Tor Project, and Watsi. The SDF will provide initial 100,000 XLM donations to each organization and match community contributions weekly.
Nodle, an IoT platform that processed ~1M daily microtransactions on Stellar, is migrating to Polkadot's Substrate network to build its own blockchain called Arcadia. The team cited need for custom blockchain functions beyond Stellar's capabilities, though plans a future bridge between the networks.
SDF hosted a webinar featuring Cowrie Integrated Systems, a Nigerian fintech company using Stellar to enable low-cost, instant payments into and out of Nigerian bank accounts via their NGNT stablecoin and anchor integration.
Stellar Development Foundation invested $715,000 in DSTOQ, a security token platform built on Stellar that tokenizes global assets like stocks for emerging market investors. This marks SDF's first enterprise fund investment.
Stellar Development Foundation announces its first investment through a new Enterprise Fund, committing $715K in lumens to DSTOQ, a Liechtenstein-based fintech enabling investment access in emerging markets via security tokens on Stellar.
Horizon 1.0, Stellar's open-source API, launches with a new ingestion engine that makes queries faster, more consistent, and less dependent on Stellar-Core. The major release includes breaking changes and new endpoints for asset trustlines, multi-sig account discovery, and network-wide offer filtering.
The Stellar Development Foundation joined the Blockchain Association, a crypto industry lobbying group, to advocate for favorable blockchain regulation and policy with US policymakers and Congress.
The Stellar Development Foundation joined the Blockchain Association to advocate for smart regulatory policy and help policymakers understand blockchain's potential to enhance the financial system and promote equitable access.
Bank von der Heydt, a 270-year-old Munich bank, partnered with Bitbond to tokenize securities on Stellar and issue a euro stablecoin for institutional private placements, launching a production version in April.
Stellar Development Foundation revamped Stellar.org with a new project directory, updated SDF mandate detailing treasury deployment, and lumen supply metrics documentation to improve ecosystem transparency and support for builders.
Stellar.org's new homepage features runnable code samples for network features like payments and asset issuance. To handle testnet resets every 3 months, the team built an automated script that checks for account existence and recreates necessary accounts, plus a function to return unused testnet lumens to Friendbot to prevent resource depletion.
Crypto.com added XLM to its Crypto Earn product, offering users up to 8% annual returns on Stellar deposits with weekly payouts and flexible terms.
The Stellar Winter Roundup 2019 recaps key achievements and events from December through October, including ecosystem expansion, the Meridian conference, lumen distribution updates, and new partnerships. Highlights feature SDF's new mandate, Horizon and Core releases, Stellar Community Fund voting, and integrations like Travala.com and BitGo support for XLM. It also announces new hires and job opportunities at SDF.
Stellar Development Foundation reflects on 2019 achievements: team grew from 11 to 56 employees, Stellar accounts doubled to 4.1M, protocol upgrades improved capacity and fairness, and ecosystem matured with stronger validator infrastructure and real use cases like AnchorUSD.
Keybase ended its Stellar Lumens airdrop after just 90 days due to spam attacks. The messaging platform received 2 billion XLM tokens to distribute over 20 months, but spam bots forced early termination with only 300 million XLM distributed instead.