Protocol Upgrades

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 22 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

Soroban

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 22, which introduces constructors and host functions for BLS12-381 to the Stellar network.

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Nicole Adair

Protocol 21 Upgrade Guide

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 21, which introduces secp256r1, improvements to state archival, and fee optimizations to the Stellar…

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 20 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

Soroban

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.

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Justin Rice

Protocol 19 Upgrade Complete!

Today, June 8, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 19! If you're having trouble with your Stellar…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 19 Upgrade Guide

A dev guide to upgrading to Protocol 19.

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Justin Rice

Protocol 18 Upgrade Complete!

Protocol upgrade

AMM

Liquidity

Today, November 3, 2021 at 15:00 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 18. It's a big day and a big upgrade because it…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 18 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

AMM

Liquidity

Protocol 18, which enables the creation of AMMs on Stellar, is coming! If you develop on Stellar, you need to install up-to-date versions of all…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 17 Upgrade Complete!

Protocol upgrade

Asset clawback

Regulation

Today, June 1, 2021 at 1500 UTC, the Stellar public network successfully upgraded to Protocol 17, which introduces a new feature designed to make it…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 17 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

Asset clawback

Regulation

If you develop on Stellar, you need to prepare for the June 1, 2021 Protocol 17 network upgrade by installing up-to-date versions of all…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 16 Upgrade Complete!

Protocol upgrade

Network halt

Today, April 10, 20201 at 1500 UTC, Stellar public network validators voted to upgrade the network to Protocol 16. This special network upgrade was…

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Stellar Development Foundation

Protocol 16 Upgrade Guide

Protocol upgrade

Network halt

We just released a new version of Stellar Core that will resolve the issues many nodes experienced this week. If you run a Stellar node of any kind,…

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Justin Rice

Protocol 15 Upgrade Complete!

Protocol upgrade

Sponsored reserves

Claimable balances

On 11/23/2020 at 1600 UTC, Stellar validators voted to upgrade the public network to Protocol 15. Two new features — Claimable Balances and Sponsored…

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Justin Rice

Announcing...Stellar Protocol 15

Protocol upgrade

Claimable balances

Sponsored reserves

It turns out we're skipping the public network upgrade to Protocol 14. Instead, we're going straight to Protocol 15, and rescheduling the vote to…

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Tomer Weller

Not All Data is Equal: How Soroban is Solving State Bloat 

Soroban

State expiration

State bloat

We discuss how Soroban’s design is tackling state bloat by implementing a state expiration solution from the outset. 

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Sydney Wiseman

Beyond the Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Analytics with Hubble

Hubble

Data

Analytics

Did you know that the Stellar Development Foundation supports an open-source, publicly available analytics dataset? Hubble, SDF’s BigQuery dataset,…

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Marta Lokhava

Proposed Changes To Transaction Submission

Transaction submission

We're proposing a change to transaction submission that will support the scalability and safety of the Stellar network, and that is a necessary…

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Taylor Murrell

How Wallets Can Integrate with Global On and Off-Ramps on Stellar

Wallets

Moneygram access

On and off-ramps

Stellar Ramps are the simplest way for wallets and anchors providing on and off-ramps to work together on Stellar.

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Bri Wylde

Soroban’s Technical Design Decisions & Learnings from Ethereum

Soroban

Ethereum

Design

Here's how Soroban learned from the way Ethereum was built.

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Dana Bernard

Blockchain as a Tool for Aid Disbursements

Aid

Aid delivery

Leveraging blockchain technology, aid delivery is underway across the globe backed by the work of humanitarian and refugee organizations. 

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