DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Inference v0.0.6 ships Stellar as a compilation target, enabling developers to use the formal verification language to write and prove Soroban smart contracts. The release also adds SpaceWasm target support for NASA JPL flight software and improves proof generation with Rocq.
HackerNoon's Company of the Week spotlight on SODAX: a cross-network execution and liquidity platform spanning 20+ blockchains including Stellar. The company manages 11,000+ trading routes and $2B in addressable liquidity, helping developers add swaps and lending without building cross-chain infrastructure themselves.
Boundless, a Stellar blockchain platform for bounties and hackathons, hosts multiple opportunities during Southeast Blockchain & Games Week (September 16-26): a Pollar payments SDK integration hackathon ($500 prize pool), Stellar Vietnam mid-autumn festival bounties ($1,000), and an AMA on Stellar Community Fund grants. Combined prize pool: $1,700 USDC.
Protocol 28 (Adapter) upgrades the Stellar network with three builder-focused improvements: faster consensus under load via CAP-83, atomic contract fleet upgrades through shared code references (CAP-85), and safer contract data migration with sparse host functions (CAP-86). Testnet upgrade August 27, mainnet vote September 16.
Blux provides dApp infrastructure for Stellar builders, bundling multi-wallet support, email/passkey/social authentication, Stellar transaction hooks, customizable UI components, and analytics. The goal is to let developers focus on building their product rather than rebuilding the infrastructure around it.
Turkish-language developer handbook organizing Stellar resources across learning pathways. Covers journey to mastery program, starter projects (payment splitter, balance checker, wallet connect), smart contracts with Soroban, DApp development, oracles, privacy/ZK, and funding via SCF and InstAwards.
Flashgate (formerly Flashback Platform) opens public access with free and paid tiers. The unified cloud and AI infrastructure gateway enables teams to connect resources, observe usage, apply guardrails, and access models from one platform. Pricing ranges from free tier to $999.99/month.
SDF published Stellar Skills, an AI-ready documentation hub designed to help AI agents understand Stellar-specific patterns, SDKs, and best practices. The site includes core skill areas for Soroban, wallets, assets, RPC, and community tools like Trustless Work escrow.
Yardstick (Protocol 26) upgrade guide for the Stellar network with key dates, preparation steps for SDK users and infrastructure operators, and links to all relevant releases.
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.
Trustless Work has released an SDK MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for Cursor, enabling AI-assisted development of escrow flows. The MCP allows developers to scaffold escrow integrations directly from their editor with autocomplete, type safety, and reduced friction.
Protocol 23 upgrade guide for Stellar developers and businesses, covering key dates, preparation steps, breaking changes, and release information for infrastructure, SDKs, and validators.
Dfns ships Givre, an optimized FROST threshold signature library for distributed cryptographic systems. The open-source implementation outperforms existing Rust threshold EdDSA implementations and supports Bitcoin BIP340, Stellar, Soroban, Solana, and Tezos. Now maintained by Lockness under the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.
A comprehensive technical overview of the Stellar stack. Covers the three networks (Mainnet for production, Testnet for development, Futurenet for experimental features), Stellar Core's consensus protocol, Horizon API for blockchain interaction, Soroban RPC for smart contracts, and SDKs available in Go, Python, Java, and JavaScript.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced the Wallet SDK at Meridian 2023, a self-service tool that enables fintechs to build Stellar network-enabled wallets with interoperability features without requiring deep blockchain expertise. The SDK supports deposit/withdrawal services, KYC, and web authentication across Flutter, Kotlin, and Typescript.
Christian Rogobete, a key Stellar SDK contributor known as Soneso, has developed and maintains iOS, Flutter, and PHP SDKs while working on an AssemblyScript Soroban SDK. His work aims to make blockchain development more accessible to developers across multiple programming languages.
Stellar Development Foundation released the second preview of Soroban, its smart contracts platform, featuring built-in contracts, expanded metering, a new Auth SDK, and significant SDK/CLI improvements including new commands for local development and contract inspection.
Stellar Protocol 13 upgrade is coming to mainnet on 06/18/2020. Developers must update Horizon, SDKs, and custom integrations before the network votes to upgrade, or their software will break.
The Stellar Development Foundation announces the release of a new Go SDK for the Stellar network, featuring horizonclient for Horizon server access and txnbuild for transaction construction. This is the third official SDK alongside JavaScript and Java, designed with Go-specific idioms and improved developer experience.
The 7th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with 107 submissions and 3.52M lumens in total awards. StellarGuard and dotnet-stellar-sdk contributions won top honors, with 53 projects receiving recognition across multiple categories including wallets, SDKs, tutorials, and trading applications.
The 6th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with record submissions and a 5x prize pool increase to 2.7M XLM. Winners include Soneso's iOS SDK, Stellarport.io exchange, and Python SDK documentation improvements, with 113 total projects receiving awards.
