The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q1 2023 report, highlighting progress on Soroban smart contracts, Stellar Core scaling improvements, Freighter wallet enhancements, and the launch of the Soroban Adoption Fund and Stellar Asset Sandbox to support developer adoption.
The Stellar Development Foundation published its Q1 2023 report detailing progress across three strategic pillars: making innovation easy and scalable, winning over builders, and focusing on utility. Key achievements include two Soroban preview releases advancing smart contract functionality, technical improvements to Stellar Core through BucketlistDB and Pull Mode initiatives to enhance scaling, Freighter wallet updates supporting Soroban and SEP-24 integration, and the official launch of the Soroban Adoption Fund with a $100 million developer support envelope. SDF also launched the Stellar Asset Sandbox toolkit for asset issuers and partnered with Coinme to bring USDC on Stellar to thousands of US cash on/off ramp locations. The foundation increased event presence across major conferences and SDF COO Jason Chilpala joined the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee.
