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The Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 18 on November 3, 2021, adding native support for automated market makers (AMMs) and liquidity pools. The upgrade required validator consensus and includes breaking changes to operations, assets, and trade precision.
Protocol 18 upgrade vote on Nov 3rd will bring automated market maker (AMM) functionality to Stellar. SDF collaborated with ecosystem projects like Settle Network, Ultra Stellar, and Stellarport.io to ensure AMM features launch immediately upon validator approval, democratizing liquidity provision and enabling new financial services use cases.
Stellar Quest Series 4 launches today with a new competitive challenge structure. The gamified educational platform has grown to 40,000+ visitors and 2,700+ unique accounts across three series, teaching developers Stellar fundamentals through hands-on coding challenges and NFT badge rewards.
Protocol 18 will introduce automated market makers (AMMs) to Stellar through deep protocol integration. The article explores the design decisions behind AMMs, including how they leverage existing path payment operations to avoid coordination problems and provide seamless liquidity routing for developers.
The Stellar Development Foundation launched Stellar Next-Gen, an educational initiative partnering with universities and organizations worldwide to develop blockchain talent and foster financial inclusion through courses, hackathons, and mentorship programs.
The Stellar Development Foundation is partnering with academic institutions worldwide to build the next generation of blockchain developers. SDF VP Justin Rice explains the initiative aligns with the platform's mission to democratize access to financial infrastructure by empowering builders and creators.
Stellar Protocol 18 introduces breaking changes including Automated Market Makers (AMMs) and liquidity pools. Developers and node operators must upgrade Stellar Core, Horizon, and all SDKs before the November 3, 2021 upgrade vote to ensure compatibility.
This article explains liquidity pools on the Stellar network, introduced in Protocol 18. It covers how constant product price curves work, how they integrate with path payments to improve trading efficiency, and their potential for future evolution.
Stellar Development Foundation shares how the ecosystem accelerated Automated Market Maker (AMM) development for Protocol 18 by involving developers early with API specs, mock environments, and Futurenet testing, enabling simultaneous product launches upon network upgrade in November.
Wilhelm Wanecek's research study estimates Stellar network electricity consumption at 0.222 Wh per transaction, with network traffic accounting for 94% of power use. The findings demonstrate Stellar's energy efficiency compared to proof-of-work blockchains and highlight the protocol's successful decoupling of decentralization from extreme power consumption.
SDF released its Q2 2021 report highlighting network growth, two protocol upgrades, $18M in Enterprise Fund investments, and the approval of Automated Market Makers for Protocol 18. The network demonstrated resilience after a temporary validator outage in April.
The Stellar Development Foundation relaunched its demo wallet with a unified interface consolidating separate protocol testing tools. The redesigned wallet now supports multiple SEPs including deposits, withdrawals, cross-border payments, and regulated assets, serving both developers and non-technical users learning Stellar protocols.
Stellar Protocol 18 proposal to add automated market makers (AMMs) was approved for implementation on June 25, 2021. AMMs will provide an alternative liquidity source alongside the existing order book exchange, enabling easier participation in market making and improving cross-asset payment efficiency.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced changes to its Debian package distribution for Stellar Core and Horizon nodes. Support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has ended, and operators must upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 LTS, with SDF committing to support all future Ubuntu LTS releases.
The Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 17 on June 1, 2021, introducing Asset Clawback—a feature enabling businesses to issue regulated financial instruments like bonds and equities while maintaining compliance capabilities.
Stellar Protocol 17 introduces asset clawback, enabling regulated financial instruments like bonds and equities to comply with securities regulations requiring issuer revocation abilities. Validators will vote on the upgrade June 1, 2021.
The Stellar Development Foundation announces Protocol 17 upgrade with a new Asset Clawback feature. Developers and node operators must update Stellar Core, Horizon, and SDKs before the June 1, 2021 network upgrade vote.
The Stellar Development Foundation executed a Protocol 16 upgrade on April 10 after an outage on April 6 caused validator and Horizon nodes to go offline. The upgrade fixed the issue affecting multiple nodes without impacting network stability.
Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade to Protocol 16 on April 10, 2024, to resolve an issue that caused nodes to go offline. The upgrade took effect immediately, and node operators need to install compatible software to avoid disruptions.
Stellar network upgraded to Protocol 16 on April 10, 2021 following a network incident. Node operators must update to Stellar Core v16.0.0 and Horizon v2.1.0 to restore service and rejoin the network.
SDF's validator nodes went offline for 10 hours on April 10, 2021, but the Stellar network continued operating normally with other validators. The issue was traced to a single operation in one ledger, fixed via Protocol 16 upgrade, demonstrating the network's decentralized resilience.
The Stellar Development Foundation spotlights eight female technical leaders on their teams, sharing career advice, paths into blockchain, and perspectives on representation in tech and the blockchain industry.
Horizon 2.0 introduces a modular architecture that decouples Horizon from Stellar Core, enabling developers to run infrastructure with significantly fewer resources, faster ingestion times, and greater flexibility. The new Captive Core approach reduces disk requirements by hundreds of gigabytes and cuts ingestion time from weeks to about a day.
A comprehensive FAQ addressing common transaction submission errors on Stellar, particularly 504 timeout errors. The article explains how dynamic fees work, surge pricing mechanics, ledger limits, and provides practical guidance for developers to optimize transaction submission and avoid timeouts.
Stellar Development Foundation released an updated analytics dataset with 5-minute refresh intervals and open-sourced its data pipeline tooling, including stellar-etl and Apache Airflow orchestration, enabling developers to build real-time Stellar data pipelines.
Stellar public network upgraded to Protocol 15 at 1600 UTC, introducing Claimable Balances and Sponsored Reserves features to enable more user-friendly app development on the network.
Protocol 15 introduces claimable balances, enabling payments to accounts without requiring pre-existing trust lines. This two-part payment mechanism solves a major friction point in asset transfers while enabling new payment primitives like recoverable and multi-recipient payments.
Stellar is skipping Protocol 14 and upgrading the public network to Protocol 15 on November 23, 2020. The change addresses a rare bug discovered during testnet testing that could have caused validator crashes. Developers running Stellar Core or Horizon must install updated versions before the upgrade.
Stellar validators will vote on Protocol 15 upgrade on November 23, 2020, introducing Claimable Balances and Sponsored Reserves to simplify user onboarding and reduce friction for anchors and app developers building on the network.
