xcapit shares hands-on experience building on Soroban, Stellar's Rust-based smart contract platform. Covers architecture, tooling, developer experience, and why Soroban is optimized for financial instruments rather than general-purpose computation.
xcapit walks through Soroban, Stellar's purpose-designed smart contract platform launched in early 2024. Built in Rust and WebAssembly with deterministic resource metering and no reentrancy vulnerabilities by design, Soroban offers streamlined iteration via sandbox testing (no blockchain node required), explicit storage management with lifetime tiers, and integration with Stellar's institutional fiat on-ramps. The guide covers architecture differences from Solidity, the testing framework, and ecosystem integration through Horizon APIs and anchors. Key insight: Soroban targets financial primitives and tokenized assets where Stellar's regulatory compliance and cross-border payment expertise provide real advantage.
