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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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Stellar Development Foundation

Smart Contracts on Stellar

Soroban

Smart contracts

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Justin Rice

Muxed Accounts FAQ

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…

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Justin Rice

Failed Transaction Mitigation FAQ

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…

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Leigh McCulloch

Starlight: A Layer 2 Payment Channel Protocol for Stellar

Starlight

Payment channels

Learn about Starlight, a layer 2 payment channel protocol for Stellar, enabling faster and cheaper transactions. Explore its benefits and…

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Caroline Young

Talk That Tech: Learn from SDF’s Engineering Team

Tech talks

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Geoff Ramseyer

Building SPEEDEX – A Novel Design for a Scalable Decentralized Exchange

SPEEDEX

Decentralized

Scalability

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