DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Stellar Development Foundation announces a new roadmap organizing 2019 projects across five teams: Horizon, Stellar Core, Product, Ecosystem, and Organization. The roadmap will eventually become a living document tracking progress on multiple initiatives.
SDF announces the Stellar Developer Program, replacing the Build Challenge format with monthly funding for long-term projects, plus new wallet guidelines and a developer mailing list to improve ecosystem collaboration.
Chain, a blockchain infrastructure company backed by Visa and Nasdaq, has been acquired by Lightyear.io in an undisclosed deal. The combined entity, called Interstellar, will be led by Chain CEO Adam Ludwin and Stellar creator Jed McCaleb, merging enterprise blockchain expertise with Stellar protocol capabilities.
The 7th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with 107 submissions and 3.52M lumens in total awards. StellarGuard and dotnet-stellar-sdk contributions won top honors, with 53 projects receiving recognition across multiple categories including wallets, SDKs, tutorials, and trading applications.
A developer created 'stcli', a simple, single-file Python REPL command-line wallet for Stellar-based assets like ETH, BTC, and EURT. It emphasizes code transparency, ease of review, and support for testing Stellar remittance functions including federation and compliance. The wallet addresses gaps in existing options by being Linux CLI-friendly and fully auditable.
Stellar Build Challenge 7 launches with two submission routes: contributing to open-source Stellar projects or building one of four new cornerstone apps (quorum explorer, trade bot maker, social trading, peer-to-peer wallet). Submissions open June 1st with awards based on merit.
The 6th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with record submissions and a 5x prize pool increase to 2.7M XLM. Winners include Soneso's iOS SDK, Stellarport.io exchange, and Python SDK documentation improvements, with 113 total projects receiving awards.
Stellar Development Foundation publishes technical specifications and roadmap for implementing Lightning Network on Stellar, enabling instant, low-fee off-chain payments through state channels and payment channels.
Stellar's 2018 roadmap focuses on two main goals: launching SDEX, a world-class decentralized exchange front-end for on-chain token trading, and integrating the Lightning Network to improve scalability and privacy. The foundation also plans ecosystem improvements including better documentation and developer tools.
Tutorial on issuing custom tokens on Stellar, demonstrating how to create, distribute, and manage tokens like the example HUG token with fixed supply and built-in exchange capabilities.
Stellar Core has been upgraded with significant code improvements, now 50% smaller and faster while maintaining security through the Stellar Consensus Protocol. Developers can upgrade their accounts and begin building financial services on the improved network.
Stellar.org introduces the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), a federated Byzantine agreement mechanism designed for decentralized payments. SCP offers four key properties: decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security, with a new open-source codebase now available for peer review.
