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YieldBlox, from the Script3 team, aims to address Stellar ecosystem challenges like poor capital efficiency and weak incentives by introducing money markets for lending and borrowing. It enables passive users to earn interest on deposits while active users leverage assets, boosting liquidity and productivity. Additionally, it provides fintech platforms with revenue models through yield delegation and staking incentives.

Protocol 18 upgrade vote on Nov 3rd will bring automated market maker (AMM) functionality to Stellar. SDF collaborated with ecosystem projects like Settle Network, Ultra Stellar, and Stellarport.io to ensure AMM features launch immediately upon validator approval, democratizing liquidity provision and enabling new financial services use cases.

YieldBlox announces updates to its YBX airdrop due to bot activity, introducing day-zero staking with a 10x multiplier for genuine users and staggering payouts over six weeks. The testnet beta saw over 472,000 YBX farmed, revealing key insights into user strategies and protocol improvements on Stellar. Upcoming changes include UX enhancements, smart contract fixes, and mainnet launch by late November.

Aquarius shares a progress update on their Stellar-based project, highlighting a successful airdrop using claimable balances that reached 272,980 wallets with over 918 million AQUA claimed. They've developed a Rewards Engine and Voting Tool to boost liquidity on the Stellar DEX (SDEX), with testing starting soon and community voting to follow. The protocol will integrate with upcoming AMMs, advancing their roadmap ahead of schedule.

Stellar Development Foundation shares how the ecosystem accelerated Automated Market Maker (AMM) development for Protocol 18 by involving developers early with API specs, mock environments, and Futurenet testing, enabling simultaneous product launches upon network upgrade in November.

This article provides a deep dive into the tokenomics of YBX, the platform token for YieldBlox, a decentralized money market protocol on the Stellar blockchain. It outlines five growth-positive utilities including staking, governance, lending/borrowing incentives, and future AMM integration, designed to bootstrap growth for both YieldBlox and the Stellar ecosystem. The model emphasizes cooperative strategies for maximum value accrual through fee redistribution and reduced sell pressure.

The article details the YBX airdrop for YieldBlox, a DeFi protocol on the Stellar blockchain, with 10 million YBX tokens distributed across three airdrops targeting community members, beta testers, and Stellar ecosystem users. Participants must meet Stellar account age requirements and set up a YBX trustline. Additional incentives include ScripTee NFT distributions for educational content and community engagement.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced updates to the Stellar Community Fund for 2021, including two funding rounds distributing 7M XLM total, new voting mechanics with budget self-selection, and a community-driven panelist selection process.

The Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 17 on June 1, 2021, introducing Asset Clawback—a feature enabling businesses to issue regulated financial instruments like bonds and equities while maintaining compliance capabilities.

SDF CEO reflects on two years leading the organization, highlighting key milestones including the first Meridian conference, quarterly transparency calls, and the network's resilience during the April 2021 validator halt. The post emphasizes SDF's commitment to openness, ecosystem collaboration, and building a decentralized network.

Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade to Protocol 16 on April 10, 2024, to resolve an issue that caused nodes to go offline. The upgrade took effect immediately, and node operators need to install compatible software to avoid disruptions.

SDF's validator nodes went offline for 10 hours on April 10, 2021, but the Stellar network continued operating normally with other validators. The issue was traced to a single operation in one ledger, fixed via Protocol 16 upgrade, demonstrating the network's decentralized resilience.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon and VP of Engineering Karen Chang discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining women in crypto, emphasizing diverse hiring practices and inclusive workplace culture as essential for building products that serve global audiences.

A comprehensive FAQ addressing common transaction submission errors on Stellar, particularly 504 timeout errors. The article explains how dynamic fees work, surge pricing mechanics, ledger limits, and provides practical guidance for developers to optimize transaction submission and avoid timeouts.

The Stellar Development Foundation published its 2021 strategic roadmap, outlining three core pillars: supporting Stellar's robustness and usability, building trust in the blockchain, and fostering sustainable use cases. SDF commits to quarterly transparency updates and accountability tracking throughout the year.

Stellar Development Foundation announced that Protocol 14 will be skipped in favor of Protocol 15 due to a critical bug discovered during testnet testing. The public network upgrade vote has been rescheduled to November 23, 2020, with detailed upgrade instructions provided for validators, Horizon operators, and SDK users.

Registration is now open for Meridian 2020, Stellar Development Foundation's Nov. 16-20 conference exploring how innovation, inclusion, and governance can drive social and economic change. Featured speakers include former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

The Stellar Development Foundation launched Stellar Community Fund 2.0, splitting the grant program into two funds (Seed and Lab) and introducing a nomination panel plus quadratic voting to address voter fatigue and improve project selection fairness.

The Stellar Development Foundation proposes raising the network's minimum transaction fee from 100 stroops to 10,000 stroops per operation to combat failed arbitrage bot transactions that clog the ledger and cause unpredictable surge pricing.

The Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 13, introducing new features like fee-bump transactions and fine-grained asset authorization. Developers must update their software to avoid compatibility errors.

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 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.

The Stellar Development Foundation burned 55 billion XLM tokens, reducing total supply to 50 billion. The move eliminated tokens earmarked for giveaways and airdrops, sending XLM price up 25% in an hour to $0.087.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced a major strategic pivot at Meridian 2019, burning 55.5 billion lumens and reducing its total allocation from 105 billion to 50 billion. SDF is shifting from broad giveaway programs to focused investments in direct development, ecosystem infrastructure, use-case development, and targeted user acquisition.

The Stellar Monthly Roundup for September 2019 covers ecosystem updates including collaborations, AMAs, new hires at SDF, developer releases, community fund proposals, and ecosystem projects like Cowrie Systems and Bitbond. Highlights include the upcoming Meridian conference in Mexico City and a proposal to disable inflation. New features on stellarbeat.io and protocol upgrades prepare the network for future improvements.

Stellar has released Horizon v0.22.1 with support for Stellar-core v12.0.0 and Protocol 12. This update introduces path_payment_strict_send offers and disables the inflation mechanism. Users are urged to update their software ahead of the public network upgrade vote on October 28, 2019.