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Soroban design discussion on state expiration and storage. Team proposes unified storage interface combining temporary and restorable entries with rent-based model, automatic rent bumps on access, and optional manual bumps. Short-term entries (15 min) charged at lower rate than long-term (30 days) to incentivize temporary storage use.

Stellar Development Foundation's Q1 2023 quarterly review covering network growth to 7.3M accounts, $419M relevant asset transaction volume, Sorobon smart contract platform progress with two preview releases, and ecosystem initiatives including the $100M Sorobon Adoption Fund supporting developer adoption.

Soroban Developer Workshop livestream featuring Paul from SDF and Morgan from useSoroban.app demonstrating how to write your first smart contract on Soroban, including Hello World examples and stateful contract development with storage operations.

SDF hosted the Stellar Community Fund 12 project pitch event featuring 10 Soroban and Stellar ecosystem projects presenting their proof of intent deliverables, including developer tools, DeFi protocols, infrastructure, and financial inclusion applications.

Stellar core developers discuss three approaches for storing scalable network configuration settings in dedicated ledger entries instead of the ledger header, with approach two using Soroban emerging as the preferred option for simplicity and flexibility.

Developer walkthrough of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, a Soroban smart contract coding game that teaches optimization through competitive challenges. The host covers the game engine, testing strategies, and Rust development practices for building efficient contracts.

Anke Liu from the Stellar Development Foundation presented updates to the Stellar Community Fund, announcing a new four-week submission cycle for awards up to $150,000 XLM, a virtual startup bootcamp launching in April, and a tiered verified member system with governance roles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.