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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.

EquitX partners with Runtime Verification for a comprehensive security audit of its v1 core contracts ahead of its December mainnet launch on Stellar. The audit, supported by the Stellar Development Foundation's Soroban Audit Bank, ensures the protocol's synthetic equities are trustless, transparent, and robust. This step underscores EquitX's commitment to security as it introduces borderless access to equities.

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.

BPVentures and LightEcho announced a new Chainlink-compatible, SEP-40 compliant randomness feed for the Stellar Soroban ecosystem. Identified by the SEP-40 SYMBOL: RANDOM, it provides verifiable 32-byte random words for game developers via a standard oracle interface. This enables easy integration for games, mints, raffles, and procedural generation without custom code.

On October 9, SDF discovered a bug in Stellar's state archival feature (Protocol 23) that caused outdated entries to be archived and restored incorrectly. The network immediately paused archival eviction and deployed a patch to quarantine corrupted entries, affecting only 478 smart contract entries out of ~47 million ledger entries.

A comprehensive tutorial on implementing tokenized vaults on Stellar Soroban following the ERC-4626 standard pattern. The article explains vault mechanics, security considerations like inflation attacks, and details both read-only and state-changing vault functions for deposits, withdrawals, and asset conversions.

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.

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.

Meridian 2025, the Stellar Development Foundation's flagship conference held in Rio de Janeiro, showcased major advancements in the Stellar ecosystem under the theme 'The Blueprint.' Key highlights included Soroban smart contract launches, over $3 billion in RWA tokenizations, PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin integration, and new partnerships. The event solidified Stellar's leadership in real-world financial applications and announced Meridian 2026 in Abu Dhabi.

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.

A Stellar Development Foundation Senior Marketing Advisor shares their first-month experience joining @StellarOrg to lead APAC strategy. They highlight Stellar's focus on real-world financial problems, the recent Soroban smart contract upgrade enabling complex dApps, and opportunities for founders and developers to build on the ecosystem.

The Stellar Development Foundation outlines its comprehensive strategy for implementing privacy on the Stellar blockchain while maintaining openness and compliance. The approach combines opt-in, configurable privacy at the application layer with three key work streams: supporting research and innovation, investing in core privacy infrastructure like zero-knowledge proofs, and building open-source solutions including confidential tokens.

Stellar completed a mainnet vote to launch Protocol 23, introducing eight Core Advancement Protocols that enable parallel smart contract execution, faster transaction processing, and improved scalability. The upgrade comes as Stellar's DeFi ecosystem surges with institutional adoption, including Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund and Circle's USDC.

Certora organized the first formal verification contests for Rust-based Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, partnering with Code4rena and Cantina. The contests for Blend v2 and Aquarius protocols featured a 40,000 USDC prize pool and used mutation testing to evaluate specifications. They demonstrated the effectiveness of Certora's Sunbeam prover in securing DeFi protocols on Stellar.

Boundless argues that Web3 crowdfunding remains broken despite blockchain promises. Upfront funding with zero accountability has replayed from ICOs ($5.6B raised, 8-10% delivered) through DAO grants (34% deliver on promises) to recent NFT rugs. They propose milestone-based escrows as the fix: funding locked until teams prove progress, with partial refunds if projects fail. Building on Stellar.

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.

Tomer Weller (SDF CPO) and Kostas Ferles (Veridise) discuss the Soroban Security Audit Bank, an SDF program funding third-party security reviews for Soroban projects. The initiative represents a proactive security shift, and Weller unpacks how projects access audits and what common vulnerabilities to avoid when building on Soroban.

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.

CHATS is a blockchain-powered platform revolutionizing humanitarian aid distribution with transparency, smart contracts, and direct cash/voucher assistance to vulnerable communities. It runs on multiple chains including Stellar and Polygon, using non-custodial, gasless smart contracts and stablecoins for secure, efficient fund disbursement. Key features include offline NFC transactions, real-time dashboards, and fraud prevention, benefiting NGOs, donors, vendors, and beneficiaries.

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.

A comprehensive tutorial on building a Stellar smart contract that uses Reflector oracle to create a EUR price prediction market. The guide covers contract initialization, oracle integration, storage patterns, token transfers, and verification logic using Soroban.

Certora Prover Version 8.1.0 introduces breaking changes including minimum Java 19 and Python 3.9 requirements, default sanity checks, updated requireInvariant semantics, and dedicated commands for Solana and Soroban verifications. New features include CVL formatter, re-routing summaries, transient storage hooks, and Foundry remappings support. Users must review specs and workflows before upgrading.