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Stellar Preparing to Outperform Ethereum in 2025 | The Roadmap to Lead

The video outlines Stellar’s plan to enhance its network by the year 2025, focusing on key areas such as scalability and usability to drive mass adoption. The roadmap includes updates beneficial for developers, enterprises, and end-users. In the first quarter, initiatives like Lab 3.0 are set to simplify developers’ tasks, while enterprise payment systems areContinue reading “Stellar Preparing to Outperform Ethereum in 2025 | The Roadmap to Lead”

Stellar Development Foundation Unveils New Product Roadmap: Scaling and Usability Enhancements for Global Adoption

The Stellar Development Foundation has introduced a comprehensive product roadmap with a focus on enhancing scalability and usability. The updates are designed to facilitate global adoption by making the platform user-friendly for developers and enterprises. Key upgrades include the goal to achieve 5,000 TPS and the reduction of ledger close times to 2.5 seconds. UsabilityContinue reading “Stellar Development Foundation Unveils New Product Roadmap: Scaling and Usability Enhancements for Global Adoption”

The Secret to Growing a Crypto Ecosystem: Data (ft. Flipside & Stellar)

Carlos from Flipside, with a background in economics and analytics, discusses his journey into the crypto world and his work with Stellar. He highlights how Flipside focuses on making blockchain data human-readable and actionable through on-chain analytics. By accurately labeling and aggregating data, they help protocols and foundations understand user engagement and identify key metricsContinue reading “The Secret to Growing a Crypto Ecosystem: Data (ft. Flipside & Stellar)”

Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Agreement: Stellar’s Security Edge

The blog emphasizes the weaknesses of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, which include vulnerabilities to economic-driven attacks where profits can override security measures. It uses incidents such as the 2023 MEV-Boost exploit, where attackers gained significant profits despite slashing penalties, to illustrate these points. It also addresses the risk of non-economic attacks, particularly those motivated by geopoliticalContinue reading “Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Agreement: Stellar’s Security Edge”

Stellar Half-Year Report – H2 2024

During the second half of 2024, the Stellar network achieved notable advancements such as the launch of Protocol 22 on December 5, which improved smart contract efficiency and privacy through new cryptographic functions. The introduction of Galexie, part of the Composable Data Platform, enhanced data scalability and retrieval. Stellar’s strategic collaborations with companies like MoneyGram,Continue reading “Stellar Half-Year Report – H2 2024”

Why Stellar DeFi?

Stellar DeFi stands out by leveraging the platform’s capacity for rapid, low-cost transactions and facilitating the tokenization of diverse assets like fiat currencies, commodities, and securities. The network excels in interoperability, seamlessly connecting to existing financial systems and other blockchains, benefiting cross-chain decentralized applications. Stellar Consensus Protocol enhances scalability, processing transactions in 2-5 seconds andContinue reading “Why Stellar DeFi?”

Introducing OpenZeppelin Monitor: Elevate Your Stellar Development With Real-Time Blockchain Insights

OpenZeppelin Monitor provides a vital tool for Stellar developers, enabling them to monitor blockchain activity with real-time notifications. It supports multiple chains including Stellar and offers configurable monitoring schedules, flexible triggers, and extensible architecture for additional chains. The service is designed to track specific on-chain events and trigger notifications through platforms like Slack, Email, andContinue reading “Introducing OpenZeppelin Monitor: Elevate Your Stellar Development With Real-Time Blockchain Insights”

How $KALE Drove Stellar Smart Contract Innovations Beyond Expectations

The $KALE initiative originated from ambitious targets set for increasing smart contract invocation counts on Stellar, aiming for 100,000 daily by Q1 2025. However, following a community-driven upgrade at Ethereum Denver, invocation counts surged unexpectedly, achieving 300,000 daily, hitting initial targets by April 5th. This surge provided various benefits like increased chain activity, offering educationalContinue reading “How $KALE Drove Stellar Smart Contract Innovations Beyond Expectations”

SCF #34 Round Recap

The SCF #34 round of the Stellar Community Fund awarded $1,717,287 worth of XLM to 17 projects that demonstrated significant user traction or experienced teams with a validated need. The projects focus on various sectors such as DeFi, payment systems, and community empowerment, utilizing Stellar’s features for enhanced efficiency and reduced costs. Notable projects includeContinue reading “SCF #34 Round Recap”

Security Checklist from Veridise to Avoid Smart Contract Vulnerabilities

Soroban, Stellar’s native smart contract platform, is designed to integrate with Stellar’s blockchain network, offering advantages such as fast transactions and low costs. Veridise, having conducted numerous audits on Soroban, provides a security checklist aimed at developers to mitigate common vulnerabilities. Important recommendations address trust assumptions, timing for addressing audit issues, and managing dependencies amongContinue reading “Security Checklist from Veridise to Avoid Smart Contract Vulnerabilities”