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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.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation Q1 2022 quarterly review covering network growth, roadmap updates, and major announcements including Project Jump Cannon smart contracts, Starbridge bridge to Ethereum, and $30M matching fund for early-stage companies.

At South by Southwest, Stellar Development Foundation's Anka discusses major initiatives including the DFS Labs fintech bootcamp for Africa, the Stellar Community Fund (SCF) grant program distributing 12 million lumens annually, and a Stellar NFT hackathon combining art and technology.

Justin Rice, head of ecosystems at SDF, discusses Stellar's protocol upgrade process, recent features like asset clawback and AMMs, and upcoming changes including payment channels and dynamic fee management at South by Southwest.

Tyler from the Stellar Development Foundation discusses the evolution of Stellar Quest, a gamified learning platform for blockchain developers. The platform is shifting from live competitive challenges to include Stellar Quest Learn, a comprehensive educational onboarding course, while maintaining competitive Stellar Quest Live series.

Stellar Development Foundation hosted a 48-hour NFT hackathon workshop covering NFT fundamentals, Stellar-specific implementation, and building innovative royalty-payment NFTs with smart contract logic.

Stellar Open Protocol meeting discussing CAP 42 (multi-part transaction sets) and CAP 44 (SpeedX configuration). CAP 42 is ready for committee vote; CAP 44 requires further work on asset selection governance and validator responsibilities.

Fred Lejal from Litemint discusses NFTs as non-fractionable assets for digital goods markets on Stellar, emphasizing creator economies, decentralized monetization, and the importance of keeping the ecosystem open for innovation rather than over-standardizing like Ethereum.

Stellar Development Foundation held an open protocol discussion covering CAP 21 and CAP 40 approvals moving to final comment period, revised CAP 42 on multi-part transaction sets with validator fee control, and initial discussion of CAP 44 on SpeedX configuration for a decentralized exchange.

Stellar developers discussed CAP 42, a protocol proposal for multi-part transaction sets that enables different fee structures based on transaction composition. The mechanism aims to reduce failed arbitrage trades and spam by allowing validators to isolate transaction subsets into separate fee lanes.

Lee McCulloch and Alex Sharbena from the Stellar Development Foundation presented Starlight, a layer-2 payment channel protocol enabling millions of transactions per second off-chain while maintaining security through CAP-21 and CAP-40 protocol upgrades.

Marta Lakova explains StellarCore's architecture, covering the consensus protocol, ledger state management, and how data flows across the Stellar network. The presentation details how StellarCore maintains distributed agreement on transactions, closes ledgers every five seconds with finality, and enables new nodes to catch up via history archives.

George from SDF's Horizon team demonstrates how to use Stellar SDKs by building a game that decodes XDR transactions, claims claimable balances, and streams payments as incoming attacks. The talk covers the three-layer SDK abstraction pyramid: cryptography/XDR, transaction building, and Horizon API querying.

Austin Rice and Marta Lakova from the Stellar Development Foundation deliver a technical deep dive into how Stellar works, comparing its federated Byzantine agreement consensus to Bitcoin and Ethereum's proof of work, then demonstrate asset issuance on the Stellar testnet using Stellar Laboratory.

Stellar Open Protocol discussion on CAP 21, which enables payment channels on Stellar for off-chain transactions and improved network throughput. The CAP is moving forward to the committee for approval after technical revisions and validation experiments.