Sorbonne Talks stream featuring Stellar Development Foundation developers demonstrating Gitpod instant dev environment for Soroban smart contract development, showing how to build, test, and deploy contracts on Futurenet with minimal setup.
In this Sorbonne Talks episode, SDF developers Tyler and Lee showcase the new Gitpod integration for Soroban smart contract development. They demonstrate deploying a Hello World contract to Futurenet, explain how to decode XDR operations to verify contract execution, and discuss the footprint concept for contract data access. The stream covers testing workflows, integration testing across contracts, and how the Soroban environment embedded in Stellar Core nodes enables realistic testing. They announce upcoming Soroban Quest challenges built entirely in Gitpod, discuss plans for future Soroban-themed hackathons, and encourage community members to build and provide feedback during the Futurenet phase before mainnet launch.
