The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q3 2023 report highlighting major progress on its roadmap, including Soroban's advancement toward Mainnet launch, security partnerships with Certora, enhancements to the Anchor Platform and Wallet SDK, and significant ecosystem milestones like Circle's EURC stablecoin launch and MoneyGram's planned wallet integration.
The Stellar Development Foundation published its Q3 2023 report detailing progress across three strategic pillars: making innovation easy and scalable, winning over builders, and focusing on utility. Key achievements include Soroban smart contracts platform reaching Testnet with Protocol 20 upgrade approaching, a security partnership with Certora for formal verification, and enhancements to developer tools like the Anchor Platform, Wallet SDK, and Stellar Asset Sandbox. The ecosystem saw major adoption milestones including Circle's EURC stablecoin launch on Stellar, MoneyGram's planned non-custodial wallet debut, and the Stellar Disbursement Platform becoming open-source with Zodia Custody as its first third-party host. Over 100 projects joined the Soroban directory with 40+ demoing at Meridian 2023, while SDF refreshed its brand messaging around real-world utility and published research on blockchain's role in financial inclusion.
