Tyler Vanderhoeven from SDF presented progress on Turing Signing Servers, a proposal for enabling decentralized transaction creation on Stellar through programmable smart contract-like functionality without modifying the core protocol.
Tyler Vanderhoeven, ecosystem evangelist at the Stellar Development Foundation, delivered a progress report on Turing Signing Servers (TSS), a proposal for enabling smart contract-like functionality on Stellar. The system allows decentralized transaction creation by uploading contracts to multiple TSS nodes, which collectively sign transactions based on programmatic logic. Key use cases include recurring payments and non-custodial service access. The proposal operates as a parallel system to Stellar's core protocol, keeping transaction execution fast and cheap while enabling Turing-complete logic for transaction creation. A working group is actively developing the specification, with a testnet implementation available at tss.stellar.buzz. The team is seeking community involvement to identify use cases and refine the protocol before it becomes an official Stellar Ecosystem Proposal (SEP).