The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q1 2020 quarterly report, highlighting progress on strategic growth pillars including Horizon API improvements, policy advocacy, marketing initiatives, and a strategic investment in DSTOQ to expand financial access in emerging markets.

The Stellar Development Foundation published its first quarterly report for 2020, detailing achievements across three strategic pillars: ensuring Stellar's robustness and usability, building trust in the blockchain, and fostering sustainable use cases. Key Q1 accomplishments include the first major Horizon release with an improved ingestion system for developers, SDF joining the Blockchain Association and Chamber of Digital Commerce for policy advocacy, new marketing efforts including an updated website with project directory and community podcast, and SDF's inaugural enterprise fund investment in DSTOQ, a Liechtenstein fintech company making security token investing accessible in emerging markets.