DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
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.
YieldBlox announces updates to its YBX airdrop due to bot activity, introducing day-zero staking with a 10x multiplier for genuine users and staggering payouts over six weeks. The testnet beta saw over 472,000 YBX farmed, revealing key insights into user strategies and protocol improvements on Stellar. Upcoming changes include UX enhancements, smart contract fixes, and mainnet launch by late November.
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.
This article provides a deep dive into the tokenomics of YBX, the platform token for YieldBlox, a decentralized money market protocol on the Stellar blockchain. It outlines five growth-positive utilities including staking, governance, lending/borrowing incentives, and future AMM integration, designed to bootstrap growth for both YieldBlox and the Stellar ecosystem. The model emphasizes cooperative strategies for maximum value accrual through fee redistribution and reduced sell pressure.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced updates to the Stellar Community Fund for 2021, including two funding rounds distributing 7M XLM total, new voting mechanics with budget self-selection, and a community-driven panelist selection process.
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.
SDF CEO reflects on two years leading the organization, highlighting key milestones including the first Meridian conference, quarterly transparency calls, and the network's resilience during the April 2021 validator halt. The post emphasizes SDF's commitment to openness, ecosystem collaboration, and building a decentralized network.
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.
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.
Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon and VP of Engineering Karen Chang discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining women in crypto, emphasizing diverse hiring practices and inclusive workplace culture as essential for building products that serve global audiences.
The Stellar Development Foundation published its 2021 strategic roadmap, outlining three core pillars: supporting Stellar's robustness and usability, building trust in the blockchain, and fostering sustainable use cases. SDF commits to quarterly transparency updates and accountability tracking throughout the year.
Registration is now open for Meridian 2020, Stellar Development Foundation's Nov. 16-20 conference exploring how innovation, inclusion, and governance can drive social and economic change. Featured speakers include former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
The Stellar Development Foundation launched Stellar Community Fund 2.0, splitting the grant program into two funds (Seed and Lab) and introducing a nomination panel plus quadratic voting to address voter fatigue and improve project selection fairness.
The Stellar Development Foundation proposes raising the network's minimum transaction fee from 100 stroops to 10,000 stroops per operation to combat failed arbitrage bot transactions that clog the ledger and cause unpredictable surge pricing.
The Stellar Development Foundation appointed Lin-Hua Wu (Dropbox CCO) and Ronaldo Lemos (Brazilian tech lawyer and academic) to its board of directors, expanding the board to five members to strengthen governance in communications, policy, and regulatory affairs.
The Stellar Development Foundation reflects on why open source is the right model for building networks, highlighting documentation, transparency, collaboration, and diversity as key pillars that enable Stellar to thrive across borders and time zones.
The Stellar Development Foundation burned 55 billion XLM tokens, reducing total supply to 50 billion. The move eliminated tokens earmarked for giveaways and airdrops, sending XLM price up 25% in an hour to $0.087.
Stellar Development Foundation burned 55 billion XLM (worth $4.4 billion), reducing total supply to 50 billion. SDF will redirect remaining funds toward block…
Stellar Development Foundation burned 55 billion XLM tokens, reducing total supply from 105 billion to 50 billion. CEO Denelle Dixon announced the move at Ste…
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced a major restructuring at the Meridian event in Mexico City, burning 55 billion XLM to reduce total supply to 50 billion. They ended large giveaway programs and redirected remaining lumens to core development, ecosystem support, use-case investments, and targeted user acquisition. This new mandate focuses SDF on making Stellar the global payments standard through efficient, transparent spending.
The Stellar Development Foundation proposed disabling the network's 1% annual inflation mechanism, arguing it no longer benefits ecosystem projects. Validators will vote on whether to accept the change in Stellar Core v12.
The Stellar Development Foundation proposes disabling the inflation mechanism in Stellar protocol v12, arguing it no longer benefits ecosystem projects and creates scalability issues. Validators will vote on the change, scheduled for October 28, 2019.
Binance discovered it earned 9.5 million XLM in staking rewards since 2018 and will now officially support XLM staking, distributing accumulated rewards to users starting in 42 days with September payouts worth 10-12 months of typical monthly rewards.
Stellar network halted for nearly two hours Wednesday when enough validator nodes stopped, preventing consensus. The incident highlighted risks of rapid decentralization, though SDF nodes remained operational.
Danelle Dixon, former Mozilla COO, has been appointed as the new Executive Director and CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, effective May 1st. Jed McCaleb, SDF's co-founder, will transition to chief architect focusing on protocol and adoption.
Denelle Dixon joins Stellar Development Foundation as Executive Director and CEO on May 1, bringing experience from Mozilla's leadership to advance Stellar's mission of unlocking economic potential through open markets and fluid money.
