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SDF Q4 2022 quarterly review covering network growth to 7.4M accounts, Soroban smart contracts launching on FutureNet with mainnet planned for H1 2023, Stellar Aid Assist deployment in Ukraine, and the 2023 roadmap focused on utility as the growth exponent.

Soroban design discussion on Authnext proposal covering account abstraction, standardized signature payloads, and invocation authorization. Dima presented the two-component system enabling flexible authentication while maintaining protocol standardization for contract interoperability.

Soroban design discussion on Auth Next proposal covering account abstraction and standardized invocation authorization. The proposal aims to simplify authentication, enable complex multi-contract calls with single signatures, and support custom account implementations beyond classic accounts.

Raheem, a computer science student from Curacao, discusses his DAO smart contract submission to Soroban-a-thon. The contract uses reputation instead of tokens for governance, allowing members to create and vote on proposals that execute cross-contract instructions.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation team discusses critical decision on how stellar assets are represented in Soroban: single balance approach (assets stored in trust lines, exposed via Soroban interface) versus dual balance approach (separate Soroban and classic balances). Community consensus strongly favors single balance for simplified user experience and ecosystem interoperability.

Stellar protocol discussion on CAP 46-06 covering the standardized token contract for Soroban smart contracts, including updates to token balances, naming conventions, clawback functionality, and solutions for handling auth-required assets from Stellar Classic.

Paul from SDF presents Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, covering environment setup, hello world examples, and a full crowdfunding dapp. Soroban enables programmable token control and reliable neutrality through on-chain code, with deployment available now on FutureNet.

Stellar core developers discuss Soroban smart contracts launch, scalability roadmap, governance challenges, and state management. Key topics include extensibility through Soroban, L1 optimization before L2 solutions, fee metering complexity, and ledger state expiration.

Stellar Development Foundation leaders discuss Soroban smart contracts launch, addressing past skepticism, scalability concerns, and the $100M Sorobanathon First Light developer fund. Soroban launches Q2 2023 with two execution lanes preserving low-cost Classic payments.

Tomer from the Stellar Development Foundation announced Soroban, a Turing-complete smart contract platform native to Stellar, now live on FutureNet testnet. The SDF is allocating $100 million to support Soroban adoption and launched Sorobanathon First Light to reward developers building and providing feedback.

Script3's Alex Moots discusses building a decentralized money market on Stellar's Soroban smart contract platform, highlighting how Soroban's interoperability with Stellar Classic and flexible authorization enable efficient DeFi protocols tailored to Stellar's anchor ecosystem.

Jed McCaleb and David Mazieres discuss founding Stellar, the consensus protocol, and the network's future at Meridian. They cover smart contracts, scalability, CBDCs, and the importance of execution over ideas.

SDF's Q3 2022 review highlights 7M+ Stellar accounts, 64M payments, and Sorobon smart contracts launching on FutureNet with a $100M adoption fund. Key ecosystem wins include USDC integrations across YRX, Ledger, and BitWage, plus the Anchor platform for streamlined integrations.

Litemint hosted its fifth legends tournament featuring a competitive card game championship on Stellar. Winner end meyer defeated chameleon in a best-of-nine final, showcasing NFT gaming mechanics and low-fee transactions on the blockchain.

Stellar's smart contract platform (Soroban/JumpCannon) is launching with testnet in late November and mainnet by end of year or early January. The team discussed SDK development, token contracts using EIP-2612 permits, and why they chose WebAssembly over EVM for better parallelism and developer experience.

Stellar protocol developers discuss Jump Cannon smart contracts implementation, focusing on contract event logging (CAP 51) and multi-dimensional fee models for compute, storage IO, and metadata (CAP 55), with debate over state expiration mechanisms.

Stellar protocol upgraded to version 19 with new transaction preconditions and signer types. The ecosystem discussed CAP 54, a comprehensive asset interoperability proposal for Jump Cannon smart contracts that enables classic Stellar assets to interoperate with smart contract tokens through a native token implementation with wrapping/unwrapping capabilities.

Stellar protocol developers discussed Jump Cannon smart contract upgrades, including CAPs 46-53. Key decisions: removing the Box type, renaming u63 to positive i64, merging contract code and data ledger entries, and defining the footprint type. Asset interoperability remains unresolved with debate over wrapping, representation, and classic asset integration.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing three CAPs for native smart contracts: CAP 53 on smart contract data storage with static footprints and deterministic scheduling, CAP 52 on minimal smart contract interactions shifting authorization to contracts, and CAP 47 on contract lifecycle including mutability and versioning questions.

Stellar Protocol meeting discussing Project Jump Cannon smart contracts. Focus on CAP 50 (transaction signing model), account architecture differences between classic and smart sides, and contract lifecycle parameters. Key debate over single-signer vs multi-sig account models and migration complexity.

Stellar Protocol discussion on smart contract integration via Project Jump Cannon. Core focus: how to handle compliance and asset authorization when smart contracts interact with classic Stellar assets, particularly around clawback and frozen asset scenarios.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted an open protocol meeting to discuss Jump Cannon smart contract implementation. The team presented CAP 46-49, four core advancement proposals covering WebAssembly runtime, smart contract lifecycle, and two competing approaches (CAP 48 vs CAP 49) for classic asset interoperability with smart contracts.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts protocol meeting to discuss Project Jump Cannon, which brings WebAssembly-based smart contracts to Stellar. The team presents CAP 46, a foundational proposal defining the host/guest execution model and data structures for smart contract runtime.