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Stellar Community Fund hosts an info session for the Asia Pacific SCF startup bootcamp, a five-day virtual program using design sprint methodology to help teams accelerate from idea to MVP. The bootcamp features mentorship, workshops, investor demo day, and prizes totaling 30,000 XLM.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation hosts detailed walkthrough of SCF submission process, covering eligibility requirements, project information, deliverables, budgeting, team qualifications, and submission platform features for Round 12.

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.

Aaron Tyson from the Stellar Development Foundation presents Bucket List DB, a next-generation database replacing SQL for Stellar Core storage. The new system reduces disk usage by 50%, improves read performance 2.6-4.2x, and eliminates data duplication while maintaining fast hashing for consensus.

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.

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 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.

Researcher from Red Bay Network presents scientific analysis of blockchain transaction throughput (TPS) claims versus real-world performance, revealing significant gaps between announced metrics and observed results across major blockchains including Algorand, Avalanche, and Solana.

BlockDemon chief engineer Nai Lu discusses infrastructure challenges across 50+ blockchain protocols, including Stellar's federated consensus model, validator decentralization, and how reputation-based trust differs from proof-of-work and proof-of-stake incentive structures.

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.

Hidenori Shinohara from Stellar's core team discusses Pull Mode, a new transaction broadcasting optimization that removes duplicate messages across the network. Simulations showed TPS improved from 326 to 563 transactions per second, a 73% increase.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DFS Lab and Stellar Development Foundation announced a virtual bootcamp (November 1-4) for Stellar Community Fund applicants, featuring design sprint methodology to rapidly prototype and validate financial products. Participants will work with mentors, community members, and Stellar engineers to move from problem definition to tested prototype in four days.

Panel discussion on succeeding in the Stellar Community Fund, featuring winners from previous rounds sharing strategies for application, community engagement, and product development.

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 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.