Protocol Upgrades
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• Stellar Development Foundation
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.
Article
• Nicole Adair
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 21, which introduces secp256r1, improvements to state archival, and fee optimizations to the Stellar…
Article
• Stellar Development Foundation
Protocol upgrade
Soroban
Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Stellar Development Foundation
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,…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Article
• Justin Rice
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…
Developer Blogs
186 results
• Justin Rice
Muxed account
Faq
SDK
Muxed accounts, a new type of Stellar account that makes it easy map of a single Stellar address to multiple users, are now live. The goal of this…
• Justin Rice
Transaction
Fees
Faq
On December 10, 2021, we released Stellar Core v18.2.0, which includes a feature aimed at mitigating the impact of failed transactions caused by…
• Leigh McCulloch
Starlight
Payment channels
Learn about Starlight, a layer 2 payment channel protocol for Stellar, enabling faster and cheaper transactions. Explore its benefits and…
• Geoff Ramseyer
SPEEDEX
Decentralized
Scalability
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