Reports, briefings,
and deep dives.

Aquarius's Asset Eligibility Registry closed a three-year gap in governance. Rather than reactively downvoting spam markets, Proposal 125 moved to an allowlist: only community-approved assets qualify for AQUA emissions. The shift reflects a broader move from reactive to proactive protocol design.

xBull Mixer brings ZK privacy pools to Stellar. Deposits unlink from withdrawals via Poseidon2 hashes and Ultrahonk proofs. The key differentiator: Know-Your-Transaction monitoring tracks and filters bad funds, letting legitimate users access privacy without the regulatory paranoia of pure-privacy tools. Now in testnet; mainnet pending compliance.

Bermuda announced it will become the world's first fully onchain national economy using Stellar, while Kraken added USDC on Stellar and Normal Finance launched a self-custodial savings app. Rise In also unveiled the largest APAC Stellar Hackathon to date, with a $60,000 prize pool spanning three Southeast Asian countries.

Yardstick (Protocol 26) is live on Testnet with a May 6 Mainnet vote. What the five new capabilities (v2 TTL host functions, checked 256-bit math, BN254 pairings, SAC improvements, ledger key freeze) actually unlock for Soroban developers.