Stellar DevX team showcased new Stellar Lab features for smart contracts, including contract explorer, storage management, and an upcoming invoke contract UI. OpenZeppelin presented a new upgradeable smart contract standard (SAP) for Soroban.
The Stellar Developer Meeting featured two major updates. First, Jason from the DevX team demonstrated new Stellar Lab capabilities for smart contract development, including contract explorer with source code verification via GitHub Actions, contract storage inspection with CSV export, and live coding demonstrations of contract deployment and invocation on Testnet. The team is working on backend optimization for faster contract list rendering and an upcoming invoke contract feature in the Lab UI. Second, Jane presented OpenZeppelin's upgradeable smart contract standard (SAP), which defines how Soroban contracts can upgrade their WASM code while maintaining mutability control. The SAP includes guidance on constructor handling, storage consistency, and metadata versioning using BINVER. OpenZeppelin is providing upgradable macros that will integrate into their wizard tool.
