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Stellar Development Foundation announced a $10 million Soroban-focused awards program through the Stellar Community Fund, offering developers up to $150,000 in XLM to build smart contracts, DeFi protocols, and dApps on Soroban ahead of its mainnet launch.

The Stellar Newsletter highlights the 2023 roadmap emphasizing utility through tools like Stellar Aid Assist and Soroban smart contracts. It introduces the Stellar Asset Sandbox for easy testnet asset issuance, reviews Q4 2022 achievements, and announces Sorobanathon: Equinox. Additional updates cover TASCOMBANK's blockchain pilot in Ukraine, SDF's CFTC involvement, network growth milestones, and developer resources.

The Stellar Development Foundation launched Sorobanathon: Equinox, the next phase of its $100M Soroban Adoption Fund. Running from February 3 to April 1, developers can earn 25 to 10,000 XLM for submitting Soroban tools, tutorials, bug reports, and content.

The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q4 2022 report highlighting major achievements including Soroban smart contracts launching on Futurenet, the Sorobanathon program exceeding targets, Stellar Quest Live Series 5 reaching record participation with 2k+ new developers, and the introduction of regulated stablecoins GYEN and ZUSD to the network.

Stellar Development Foundation explains why Soroban's initial release uses the WASMI interpreter instead of a JIT compiler, citing security concerns, simplicity, and the complexity of integrating JIT with blockchain-specific requirements like metering.

Tommaso De Ponti, a Stellar developer since mid-2020, shares his journey from learning programming at age 11 to building Soroban smart contracts. His work includes DeFi projects and a zero-knowledge proof coin mixer built with his brother.

The Stellar Development Foundation's 2022 year-in-review highlights major milestones: 7M+ network accounts, Soroban smart contracts launching mid-2023, MoneyGram Ramps enabling cash-to-crypto conversion, and Stellar Aid Assist delivering humanitarian aid via blockchain.

Sorobanathon: First Light, the inaugural program of the $100M Soroban Adoption Fund, concluded December 15th with 59 technical submissions from 27 developers and 93,600 XLM distributed. Highlights include smart contracts for DAOs, lotteries, Dutch auctions, and developer tools, plus NFT art contributions for Stellar Quest Live Series 5.

Stellar Quest Live Series 5 concluded after a year-long hiatus, attracting 2,344 unique accounts and distributing over 1 million XLM across six Soroban-focused challenges. The series was the most successful to date, driving 50+ submissions to Sorobanathon: First Light despite technical challenges and XLM farming issues.

Synced's December 2022 development log outlines aims to release dashboards on their dev web app, learn Rust and Soroban, and test a simple DAO contract. Progress includes merging dashboards into the main product and gaining comfort with Rust, noting Soroban's simplicity. The log is signed by Tejas.

Stellar Quest Live Series 5 celebrates community resilience through memorable bugs and breakthroughs. From crashed anchors to Futurenet peer limits, the Lumenaut volunteer team has repeatedly turned infrastructure failures into network improvements while maintaining humor and camaraderie.

The Stellar Newsletter highlights recent ecosystem developments including Soroban smart contracts live on Futurenet with a $100M developer fund and Sorobanathon. It covers Meridian 2022 on-demand sessions, Stellar Quest Live Series 5, bridge bounty grants, and the new Anchor Platform. Additional updates include stablecoin launches, SDF investments in NetXD and Wave, and community fund discussions.

Stellar Quest Live Series 5 returns after a year hiatus, featuring six Soroban smart contract challenges running November 10 through December 1. Developers compete in real-time quests to earn NFT badges and share 534k XLM in rewards.

The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q3 2022 report highlighting major progress: Soroban smart contracts launched on futurenet, a $100M adoption fund was announced, Meridian 2022 conference drew 380+ attendees, and the Anchor Platform entered final testing.

Soroban, Stellar's smart contracts platform, is now live on Futurenet. The SDF launched Sorobanathon: First Light, the first program under its $100M Soroban Adoption Fund, offering developers 250-3,000 XLM rewards for creating tutorials, code examples, and documentation.

Stellar Development Foundation announced Soroban, its native smart contracts platform, is now live on Futurenet testnet, alongside a $100M adoption fund to support developers building on the platform.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced a $100M Soroban Adoption Fund to support developers building on Soroban, its native smart contracts platform now live on Futurenet. The fund includes Sorobanathon: First Light, an incentive program rewarding developers for testing and providing feedback.

Soroban, Stellar's native smart contract platform, launched on Futurenet with a $100 million Adoption Fund from the Stellar Development Foundation. The platform emphasizes lower gas fees and consistent pricing through optimized contract design and a calibrated fee model.

Synced's development log details progress on new dashboards and bounty features, with ongoing experimentation with Stellar Soroban smart contracts. Key activities include merging dashboards into core, preparing for a Shenzhen innovation competition, and attending the Stellar Meridian conference. The log spans from early October to mid-November 2022.

Litemint has launched decentralized NFT auctions on the Stellar blockchain, utilizing time-bound transactions, pre-authorized transactions, and path payments for secure, trustless execution. The system ensures no third-party custody, bid protection until auction end, reserve price enforcement, and participant withdrawal rights. Full settlement occurs on the Stellar DEX via a pre-authorized contract transaction.

Stellar Development Foundation released the second preview of Soroban, its smart contracts platform, featuring built-in contracts, expanded metering, a new Auth SDK, and significant SDK/CLI improvements including new commands for local development and contract inspection.

The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled Soroban, a new smart contracts platform built on WebAssembly and Rust. The preview release lets developers write and test contracts locally, marking the SDF's first early-stage public preview and inviting community feedback.

The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q2 2022 report highlighting progress on three strategic pillars: Protocol 19 went live enabling payment channels, Project Jump Cannon smart contracts advanced with WASM, and ecosystem funding reached 10.5M XLM across 15 projects through the Stellar Community Fund's 10th round.

Deep dive into Stellar's native multi-signature feature, exploring how m-of-n multisig enables advanced use cases like multi-party consensus, pre-authorized transactions, commitment schemes, and proof-of-work incentives without smart contracts.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO reflects on three years of leadership, highlighting past achievements like bringing USDC to Stellar and the MoneyGram partnership, present momentum with ecosystem products launching, and future priorities including smart contracts via Project Jump Cannon, bridging, and scalability.

The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q1 2022 report highlighting major initiatives: Project Jump Cannon for native smart contracts, Starbridge for Ethereum interoperability, $1.5M in Matching Fund investments, and continued USDC adoption across exchanges.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced Project Jump Cannon will use WebAssembly (WASM) as its smart contract runtime. After evaluating EVM, Move, eBPF, and other options, the SDF chose WASM for its robust execution environment, thriving ecosystem, and alignment with Stellar's values of safety, scalability, and equitable access.