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Tutorial on deploying factory/deployer contracts on Soroban that enable creating unlimited smart contract instances from a single parent contract, covering implementation, testing, and deployment steps.

Stellar Development Foundation leaders discuss Soroban smart contracts, the anchor network with MoneyGram integration, DeFi ecosystem growth, and the Stellar Community Fund's grant program. Runtime Verification auditors highlight the quality of Soroban's Rust codebase and unique design features like state archival and batteries-included developer experience.

Tutorial on setting up and configuring a C++ GPU/CPU miner for the Kale protocol, covering compilation, build options, configuration settings, and farming strategies.

Day two of Stellar DevComp focused on Rust fundamentals for Soroban smart contract development. Instructor covered data types, variables, functions, and the ownership model that makes Rust ideal for blockchain applications.

Stellar DevCamp cohort 2 kicks off with an introduction to Soroban smart contracts. Instructor Aomide covers Stellar fundamentals, Soroban architecture, development environment setup, and Rust basics for building on Stellar.

Stellar protocol meeting discussing CAP 67 on unified event emissions for classic and Soroban assets, and CAP 63 on parallel transaction execution via staged transaction sets with TTL update semantics changes.

Stellar protocol 23 introduces partial state archival (CAP 62) and in-memory Soroban state (CAP 66), separating live and archived contract data into distinct databases. Live Soroban state will be cached in memory with optimized fee structures, while automatic restore functionality eliminates the need for separate restore operations in most cases.

Stellar DevRel team discusses 2025 priorities at their San Francisco offsite, highlighting focus on monthly active developers and daily smart contract invocations on Soroban. Key initiatives include passkeys, LaunchTube, and fun on-chain experiences to drive ecosystem growth.

Developer demonstrates how to write and deploy an NFT smart contract in Rust to Stellar's Soroban platform, covering contract structure, IPFS metadata storage, and deployment to testnet and mainnet with live minting examples.

Garand from Stellar protocol team presents State Archival, a novel solution to state bloat that assigns TTL values to ledger entries, archives expired data off-chain in Merkle tries, and defends against double restore, malicious archival, and double nonce attacks. Implementation launched on mainnet in February 2025.

Tutorial on deploying a fungible token to Stellar's Soroban network using Rust and WebAssembly, including smart contract initialization, minting, transfers, and integration with Freighter wallet and a React dApp frontend.

Julian from the Stellar Development Foundation compares Solidity and Soroban Rust SDK for smart contract development, building identical hello world contracts in both languages and highlighting Rust's advantages for blockchain including concurrency safety and lower computational overhead.

Nicola Dare from SDF explains oracles and the oracle problem in smart contracts. She covers oracle types (software, hardware, cross-chain, compute-enabled), decentralization levels, and how leading oracles solve the challenge of maintaining blockchain security and trustlessness when accessing off-chain data.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector, a price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering a dev contest with XRF token rewards, boilerplate code for cross-contract calls, testing with ledger snapshots, and a predictive market example built on oracle data.

Developer tutorial on Soroban state management covering persistent, temporary, and instance storage types, rental fees for data storage, and practical code examples for storing and extending contract data on the Stellar blockchain.

Tutorial on Soroban smart contract constructors, explaining how they work during contract deployment, with practical examples of declaring constructors, setting storage, and deploying to testnet.

Developer walkthrough of Reflector price oracle for Stellar DeFi, covering boilerplate setup, testing with ledger snapshots, and building a predictive market contract using oracle data.

Chris Anataglio from Stellar Development Foundation presents FutureStack, demonstrating how passkeys and smart contract wallets simplify Web3 onboarding. The passkeys kit SDK enables developers to implement passwordless authentication using biometrics, eliminating seed phrase friction for consumer adoption.

Educational tutorial on Stellar accounts covering account structure, creation using the JavaScript SDK, Stellar Lab tools, and completing Stellar Quest challenges.

Tutorial on authentication in Soroban smart contracts, covering require_auth and require_auth_for_args functions for verifying transaction authorization, plus testing methods using mock_auth and mock_all_auth utilities.

SDF platform team showcased five hackathon projects built on the Composable Data Platform, demonstrating faster, cheaper alternatives to Horizon for trade aggregations, fraud detection, contract indexing, browser-based ingestion, and validator analytics.

Developer demonstrates launching fireworks using Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, with a Node.js controller listening for blockchain events and triggering an Arduino-controlled arc igniter. Showcases Web3's potential to replace cloud services for IoT applications.

Cheesecake Labs shares insights on building non-custodial wallets on Stellar, covering key storage using native mobile encryption, SEP-30 key recovery with multi-signature accounts, and challenges integrating with anchors via SEP-6 and SEP-24 standards.

Stellar Development Foundation core team lead discusses Soroban's mainnet activation, protocol upgrades including SecP256R1 for passkeys and BLS12381 for zero-knowledge contracts, and upcoming improvements like parallel execution and state archival to scale responsibly while maintaining decentralization.