DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
This article describes the prototyping of Privacy Pools on Stellar's smart contracts platform, implementing a privacy-preserving protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs and Association Set Providers (ASPs) to enable private transfers while maintaining compliance standards.
The Stellar Development Foundation is consolidating Go developer tools into a unified Go SDK, renaming the monorepo from stellar/go to stellar/go-stellar-sdk. This change aligns the Go ecosystem with other Stellar SDKs and improves discoverability by clearly separating reusable SDK components from service code.
Stellar has released Protocol 25 (X-Ray) with a comprehensive upgrade guide for developers and infrastructure operators. The guide covers key dates, preparation steps, SDK updates, and breaking changes, with the mainnet upgrade scheduled for January 22, 2026.
Drips launches Wave, a recurring monthly bounty cycle for open-source development. The first full program runs for Stellar starting January 2026, designed to attract developers, maintain projects, and grow communities.
Stellar's Soroban runtime engineers have integrated Solidity support into Soroban via Hyperledger Solang, enabling developers to write smart contracts in Solidity and compile them to WebAssembly. The Solang Playground Web IDE is now available for developers to write, compile, and deploy Solidity contracts on Soroban Testnet.
Stellar Core v24.1.0 addresses a state archival issue that caused some Stellar Events to be omitted from ledger metadata between Protocol 23 and 24. Infrastructure operators running Galexie, Horizon, or RPC need to take specific remediation steps to ensure complete historical data, while consumers of Stellar Events should audit affected ledger keys.
Bitbond launches TokenTool API, an enterprise-grade platform for creating and managing digital assets across multiple blockchains including Stellar, without requiring deep blockchain expertise. The API offers pre-audited smart contracts, multi-chain support, and comprehensive token lifecycle management for businesses and developers.
The Trustless Work Backoffice dApp is a decentralized control panel on the Stellar blockchain for deploying, managing, and releasing funds from smart escrows without coding. It serves as a production-grade backoffice, testnet sandbox, and open-source template for escrow operations. Key features include role-based dashboards, API key management, and support for single or multi-release escrows.
Space and Time now indexes Stellar blockchain data, enabling developers to build data-driven financial apps and smart contracts with access to verifiable historical, cross-chain, and offchain data.
Tansu has been officially deployed on Stellar's mainnet with contract ID CDXINK2T3P46M4LWK35FVIXXHJ2XHAS4FOVCGVPJ63YV5OVTM24IY5BI. Users can view the contract on Stellar Expert and access the dApp at app.tansu.dev to register projects and secure software supply chains.
Spiko details their custom blockchain infrastructure for handling indexing, real-time queries, and transaction relaying across multiple networks including Stellar. They moved away from off-the-shelf solutions like The Graph due to reliability issues, building a robust system using RPC servers. This architecture improves efficiency, reduces bugs, and speeds up expansion to new chains.
Protocol 24 is a stability upgrade for Stellar that fixes a bug in the state archival feature. The upgrade was completed on mainnet on October 22, 2025, with infrastructure operators and validators required to update their software.
TokenOps leverages Stellar's Soroban smart contracts for scalable, low-cost token operations including airdrops, vesting, and TGEs. It offers 3-5 second settlement times, fixed fees, and real-time tracking with backend persistence. This enables efficient automation, transparency, and compliance for Web3 projects on Stellar.
Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, is promoted for students worldwide, offering free Pro access with a university email. It accelerates coding, problem-solving, and project execution, with a livestream tutorial demonstrating a dApp build using Next.js and Stellar Wallet Kit. The article highlights its benefits for students in Latin America building on Stellar, from smart contracts to DeFi protocols.
Veridise has published a security checklist for Soroban developers to prepare for smart contract audits. The guide covers best practices and vulnerability prevention for building on Stellar's native smart contract platform.
The article argues that Web3, including blockchain technologies, may succeed like cloud computing by becoming invisible infrastructure for developers rather than a consumer-facing product like ChatGPT. It outlines key barriers to adoption such as poor UX, fragmentation, unclear regulations, and onboarding challenges, and emphasizes the need for unique value propositions like trustless coordination. A linked post highlights Stellar's role in bridging assets with Near intents, tying into broader interoperability discussions.
Webacy has been selected as a recipient of the Stellar Community Fund Build Award in SCF Round #38. Out of 83 submissions, 24 projects were chosen for their contributions to the Stellar ecosystem. Webacy will bring advanced risk intelligence and decisioning infrastructure to enhance security on Stellar.
Guide to integration testing best practices for Soroban smart contracts using JavaScript, covering realistic local network testing, end-to-end user flows, state validation, edge cases, and CI automation with practical examples.
Range's Stablecoin Explorer provides a unified view of stablecoin transactions across 100+ chains including Stellar, and 21 bridges, solving cross-chain visibility issues for wallets, dApps, and bridges. It offers one-step integration with full transaction lifecycle tracking, entity enrichment, and blacklist integration. Teams can link users to a single explorer for improved UX without engineering overhead.
Range launches Stablecoin Explorer, the first dedicated cross-chain and intra-chain tracker for over 20 stablecoins across 100+ chains and 21 bridges. It offers real-time transaction details, public analytics, entity labeling, and integrated sanctions blacklists. Stellar is highlighted as a major hub for intra-chain stablecoin activity.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced that all SDF projects are unaffected by a major NPM supply chain attack discovered on September 8, 2025. SDF conducted audits and found no malicious packages in their projects, while providing guidance to the broader Stellar ecosystem on how to protect against the attack.
Stellar Development Foundation details major upgrades to Stellar Core aimed at achieving 5000 TPS and reducing block time to 2.5 seconds. The improvements parallelize transaction dissemination, consensus voting, and block execution across separate threads, with v22.1.0 already deployed and showing significant main thread pressure reduction.
Stellar Protocol 23, named Whisk, introduces unified events and parallel transaction processing to improve developer experience and network scalability. The protocol launches September 3rd and includes fee reductions, state archival foundational work, and configurable network parameters.
Trustless Work released Escrow Blocks, a production-ready React library that provides pre-built UI components and providers for integrating stablecoin escrows into applications in minutes. The library abstracts away smart contract complexity, enabling developers to build escrow flows from funding through milestone approvals and disputes without extensive development time.
A comprehensive guide to 'vibe coding'—using AI and large language models to assist with software development. The article covers best practices for prompting, providing context to AI models, and recommends tools including AI code editors, various LLMs, and MCP servers to enhance the development workflow.
Stellar has launched RPC integration with a ledger data lake, enabling developers to access any historical ledger from genesis to present through RPC queries. The feature uses SEP-0054 standardized format and can be accessed via public data lakes or self-hosted using Galexie, with the getLedgers endpoint now supporting full historical data retrieval.