Soroban has achieved feature completeness after a year of public development through 10 preview releases, with over 70 ecosystem projects now building in parallel. The platform is closing in on a stable release candidate with a renewed focus on developer experience, tooling, and documentation.
Soroban, Stellar's smart contract platform, has reached feature completeness after a year of development marked by 10 public preview releases. The platform introduced crucial features including a refined fee structure (Preview 9) and novel state expiration mechanisms (Preview 10) to address unbounded state growth. Throughout development, over 70 ecosystem projects have built in parallel, creating fundamental building blocks across oracles, developer tools, DAOs, DeFi primitives, and wallets. While preview releases introduced breaking changes that challenged developers, the community persevered and provided invaluable feedback. With core functionality complete, Soroban is now focusing on developer experience through improved tooling, clearer documentation, and new support programs including Sorobounty Spectacular and Sorobanathon: Road to Mainnet.
