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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 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…
Article
• 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…
Article
• 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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• Tom Quisel
Fixing Memo-less Payments
Faq
Exchanges
Memo
There’s now a simple solution to the “I forgot my memo” problem: exchanges and wallets can require memos for incoming Stellar payments by setting a…
• Adolfo Builes
Introducing Horizon 1.0
Horizon
API
In honor of the first major Horizon release, we explain what it is, what it does, and how fundamental changes introduced today make it easier than…
• Carl Vitullo
How Stellar.org Recovers From a Testnet Reset
Testnet
The Stellar.org team shares the scripts they use to weather testnet resets.
• Denelle Dixon
A Look Back and A Look Forward: Our Momentum for 2020
Growth
Annual recap
Roadmap
2019 was a momentous year for SDF. Our CEO & Executive Director Denelle Dixon reflects on what we have accomplished and what's to come.
• Marta Lokhava
Intuitive Stellar Consensus Protocol
Stellar Conensus Protocol
Proof-of-agreement
Distributed consensus is literally the core of Stellar, but it can be difficult to understand. It is easy to get lost because there are a lot of…
• Stellar Development Foundation
Horizon v0.22.1 released + protocol 12 support
Horizon
Protocol upgrade
API
We just released a new version of Horizon, v0.22.1, which includes support for Stellar-core v12.0.0.
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