DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Stellar Quest Series 4 launches today with a new competitive challenge structure. The gamified educational platform has grown to 40,000+ visitors and 2,700+ unique accounts across three series, teaching developers Stellar fundamentals through hands-on coding challenges and NFT badge rewards.
The Stellar Development Foundation launched Stellar Next-Gen, an educational initiative partnering with universities and organizations worldwide to develop blockchain talent and foster financial inclusion through courses, hackathons, and mentorship programs.
The Stellar Development Foundation is partnering with academic institutions worldwide to build the next generation of blockchain developers. SDF VP Justin Rice explains the initiative aligns with the platform's mission to democratize access to financial infrastructure by empowering builders and creators.
The Stellar Development Foundation relaunched its demo wallet with a unified interface consolidating separate protocol testing tools. The redesigned wallet now supports multiple SEPs including deposits, withdrawals, cross-border payments, and regulated assets, serving both developers and non-technical users learning Stellar protocols.
DFS Lab and the Stellar Development Foundation launched a three-day Blockchain Bootcamp for African startups to build on Stellar, with prizes up to 20,000 USDC and potential follow-on funding opportunities.
This article explains how to use the Stellar network for everyday payments and remittances, emphasizing its speed, low cost, and ecological benefits over traditional banking. It covers wallet options like Keybase, Lobstr, Freighter, and hardware wallets, security best practices, and methods to spend XLM via exchanges or crypto debit cards. The author shares personal experiences sending XLM to family members.
This article explains NFTs using analogies like baseball cards and highlights their potential for artists, musicians, and gamers. It focuses on Litemint, a low-cost NFT platform built on the Stellar blockchain, where the author minted their own artwork for just $1.86. The piece critiques media hype around high-profile NFT sales while emphasizing benefits like direct royalties and ownership decentralization.
The Stellar Development Foundation emphasizes financial literacy as a critical component of equitable financial access, highlighting that 57% of American adults lack basic financial knowledge. SDF is launching initiatives to partner with organizations and advocate for legislation prioritizing financial literacy education alongside blockchain technology adoption.
The article contrasts traditional payment apps like Venmo with Stellar's blockchain for low-cost, borderless remittances. It highlights Stellar's negligible transaction fees, decentralized exchange for fair rates, and adoption by Franklin Templeton. The author, a self-described no-coiner, expresses optimism about cryptocurrency's potential to empower the unbanked.
Supriya shares her personal journey leaving a demanding tech job while giving birth, cashing out cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin to start a new life. She reflects on how blockchain technologies can challenge exploitative labor systems. This is her first post on the Public Node blog, tied to the Stellar ecosystem.
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 spotlights eight female technical leaders on their teams, sharing career advice, paths into blockchain, and perspectives on representation in tech and the blockchain industry.
The article details a 'Stellar Staking Marathon' email-phishing scam targeting Stellar (XLM) users, linked to the 2020 Ledger.com database breach that exposed over 1 million emails and personal data of 270,000 individuals. Stellarscam.report connects this to memo-phishing bots on the Stellar Network, noting pattern changes coinciding with the breach. Users are urged to check haveibeenpwned.com and report scams.
The article recounts the origin of Stellarscam.report, created to combat 'memo-phishing' scams on the Stellar Network where scammers send malicious memos with tiny XLM amounts to trick users into revealing secret keys. The author, frustrated by repeated scam reports on r/Stellar, developed a bot in mid-May 2020 to automatically send warning transactions to victims. Monthly stats show the bot countered tens of thousands of scam transactions, highlighting ongoing community efforts against persistent fraud.
The Stellar Community Fund manager shares six strategies for winning SCF grants: serve your audience, pick the right fund tier, exceed guidelines, engage the community, emphasize marketing, and keep iterating. Success requires balancing technical quality with presentation and community involvement.
The Stellar Development Foundation explains Issuer-Enforced Finality, a key feature enabling stablecoin issuers to maintain authoritative control over asset ownership on a permissionless network, contrasting Stellar's approach with Ethereum's vulnerability to double-spend attacks.
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.
Stellar Development Foundation revamped Stellar.org with a new project directory, updated SDF mandate detailing treasury deployment, and lumen supply metrics documentation to improve ecosystem transparency and support for builders.
The Stellar Winter Roundup 2019 recaps key achievements and events from December through October, including ecosystem expansion, the Meridian conference, lumen distribution updates, and new partnerships. Highlights feature SDF's new mandate, Horizon and Core releases, Stellar Community Fund voting, and integrations like Travala.com and BitGo support for XLM. It also announces new hires and job opportunities at SDF.
Stellar has been running its own Lightning Torch since June 2019, a community experiment that passes XLM around the world to demonstrate the blockchain's base-layer transaction efficiency. The torch, initiated by Wouter Arkink, has covered nearly 500,000 kilometers with zero transaction fees and introduced challenges like claiming countries and recruiting famous participants.
The Stellar Development Foundation explains the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) through a detailed walkthrough of how distributed consensus works. The article covers quorums, federated voting, nomination and ballot protocols, and provides a concrete example of how nodes reach agreement on transaction sets.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced Stellar Meridian, its first sponsored conference, taking place November 4-5, 2019 in Mexico City. The event will bring together developers, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem projects to discuss financial inclusion, regulation, and Stellar's role in the future of finance.
Stellar launched as Coinbase Earn's largest partner, committing 1 billion XLM to reward users for educational videos about the platform. Users can earn up to $50 in XLM by completing lessons and referring friends.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced three major community initiatives: Stellar Clusters for local grassroots meetups, a first global Stellar conference, and the Stellar Community Fund to let the community guide lumen distribution. The post also highlighted Reddit governance experiments and a Community Champions program.
Stellar celebrated its first anniversary, growing from two cofounders to a 16-person team while launching the Stellar Consensus Protocol, building global partnerships, and establishing a thriving developer community across multiple continents.
The Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) introduces federated Byzantine agreement, a consensus mechanism that achieves decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security simultaneously. SCP enables a worldwide financial network where participants reach agreement without relying on centralized institutions.