DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Future of Money & Technology Summit in San Francisco featured a dedicated digital currency track with discussions on bitcoin, blockchain, and Stellar. Panelists highlighted emerging markets as key to cryptocurrency adoption and discussed innovations like sidechains.
Stellar Development Foundation removed a partial payments feature from the protocol after discovering it could cause fund loss if anchors weren't aware of the DeliveredAmount field requirement. The legacy feature has been eliminated and all known anchors were notified.
Stellar network experienced a 16-hour outage on September 20, 2014, caused by validator nodes running out of RAM, halting consensus and all transactions. The foundation addressed communication gaps and began work on scalability improvements to prevent recurrence.
Stellar, a decentralized gateway for digital currency to fiat transfers founded by Jed McCaleb, officially launched with a native currency called 'stellar' distributed free to users. The platform aims to bridge fiat and digital currencies for mainstream adoption.
