Soroban, Stellar's smart contracts platform, is live on Mainnet. Much will be said but right now I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who's worked on this project for the past couple of years. I've learned so much from y'all and I'm honored to be part of the
#StellarFamily
🙏
Stellar validators passed a vote to increase smart contracts transaction limits. Defi protocols should comfortably fit within these new limits. Who's live?
Soroban is alive! This developer preview is a unique opportunity for smart contract developers to influence a new Smart Contracts platform in it's infancy. Come join the party.
The Stellar network processed 2,281 Soroban transactions today (May 8th, UTC). This is the busiest day since launch and is still a tiny fraction of almost 12,000,000 transactions processed by Stellar today. Onwards and upwards.
If you're building on Stellar check this out. This small change in the overlay protocol will allow Stellar to scale significantly and enable efficient Soroban smart contract invocations.
Hey
@bgarlinghouse
, if you're interested in issuing $RLUSD in a network with clear product market fit for real world use cases you should consider Stellar. HMU for more info.
This is big - and it didn't happen overnight. It's the result of years of building deep technology, interoperability standards and an amazing ecosystem of partners. No hype - just utility. Very proud to be part of
@StellarOrg
Gm eth people. Yes, tokenized treasuries are a big thing. We've known that for a while at
@StellarOrg
where industry giants like
@FTI_US
and
@WisdomTreePrime
have been issuing treasuries. Better late than never!
um...i think the BlackRock on Ethereum news from yesterday is bigger than i initially thought
it's more than symbolic - it seems like a liquidity portal from tradfi to crypto
tokenized treasuries are about to accelerate
Are you building in
#Crypto
and looking to unlock revenue opportunities in Latin America? 🌎
Wyre’s integration with Settle, in collaboration with
@StellarOrg
, enables developers building on top of Wyre to offer local fiat on ramps in both Brazil and Argentina. 🏗️⚙️
There's a stellar validator comfortably running on a raspberry-pi in
@StellarOrg
's kitchen. Made possible due to BucketListDB which is now on by default in stellar-core 21.0.0. Kudos to
@gttyson
for the hustle
On March 2nd, we’re hosting our
#ETHDenver
Closing Party with the always stellar
@StellarOrg
team 💫
We’ve invited some of the most impressive Web3 devs and thought leaders, so get there early to make sure YOU get in!
DeFi protocols should be open source and publicly share at least one audit from a reputable security firm. Hard stop. Then we can start talking about features
The Solana network is, once again, being battle tested with a huge influx of traffic. Bug fixes are rolling out over the next week, and things will start to improve.
But there is no silver bullet and no "finished" – we expect demand will continue to increase, which will require
I’m heading to Rooster Coffee House to talk with
@sushi
about the future of Smart Contracts and non-evms. Join me in saving the world and killing the evm. ~1330
Join us Wednesday at 12:00 pm PT for our first Tech Talk with
@tomerweller
Twitter Spaces Edition – live in conversation with none other than
@jedmccaleb
!
We are rolling out a BIG update for LOBSTR - we are now adding multiple accounts! 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞
It's been a long time coming and a massive effort from our team.
This new feature will empower you to use different Stellar wallets across various
@SorobanOfficial
products on Stellar.
Protocol 20 aka "the one with Soroban" is ready to go with stable releases across the stack. This version is live on Testnet as of yesterday and the Mainnet protocol upgrade vote is scheduled for Jan 30th.
Happy holidays y'all 🙏
1/6 Important news: Protocol 20 releases are available today! Today, we announced the release of a full suite of software that supports Protocol 20, which will bring Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.
There's more 👇
Hot take from
@EthCC
: what others are now calling "real world use cases" is what
@StellarOrg
has been calling "use cases" since 2014. Welcome to the real world!
How do
#Soroban
smart contracts interact with
#Stellar
assets? That's one of the most common questions we get from developers and this might be the most complete guide that answers it
Got some time to kill while waiting for your Solana transaction to go through? How about checking a brand new, developer friendly rust smart contracts system built on the tried and true Stellar network?
We are proud to announce that the stars are coming together as
@xyclooLabs
joins the Reflector cluster to increase the robustness of the Reflector consensus. xyclooLabs is a development company building Mercury, the Zephyr VM, and xycLoans on/for
@StellarOrg
and
#Soroban
.
This is some of the best hardware wallet signing experience I've ever seen for smart contracts. Phenomenal work by
@overcat_me
.
@Trezor
, please merge ASAP :)
Ledger Stellar App v5.2.0 is available for testing (via side-loading). This herculean effort by
@overcat_me
includes the much anticipated Soroban support. I think this is some of the best smart contract tx signing experience on any hardware wallet. Wdyt?
What a year for the Stellar Community Fund!
In the past 12 months, we distributed over $10M in XLM to 130 projects. Marking a near 5x increase in funding from previous years.
Interested? See what makes a good SCF submission below 👇
Soroban fiddle is a nifty little demo that allows you to browse soroban contracts on stellar's futurenet and invoke them *in the browser*. Awesome work by
@___leigh___
Just withdrew USDC to cash using
@MoneyGram
via
@Decaf_so
in a Santa Monica CVS. It's been a while since my last time and the experience has significantly improved. Very clear directions and no need to guess which button to press on the kiosk.
Still too much friction. The Kiosk
A good throwback to when shit hit the fan.
On this day 5 years ago the Stellar network halted for 67 minutes. The halt resulted from a unique Stellar issue: quorum misconfiguration.
While stressful at the time it did lead to significant technical and ecosystem improvements
Protocol 21, first post-Soroban upgrade, is now live! Passkeys support, performance improvements and cost optimizations (= reduces fees) to name a few changes.
Ledger bloat is a real problem, and kicking this can down the road is harder with lower fees and higher gas limits. At one point or another networks will have to implement some form of state archival. Check out how Stellar is solving this here:
~68% of Base chain state has been taken over by a single protocol of questionable utility
thanks to cheap fees + storage mispricing, a tiny number of users have monopolized the majority of network resources
this has implications for every cheap fee blockchain. some thoughts 👇
Brace yourselves for a smooth fiat onboarding experience, thanks to our newly implemented SEP-0024 onramps! 🛠️
Embark into the world of DEX trading with unparalleled ease in onboarding local currencies.
@SorobanOfficial
launch day is around the corner - let's make this
One of my favorite things about Soroban is how inspectable the key/val storage is. This allows platforms like to present contract data in a very intuitive way without having to know anything about the contract
Achievement unlocked: my own youtube series!
Once a month I'll be talking with the people who make the magic happen:
@StellarOrg
engineers. In this first episode with
@___leigh___
we discuss starlight, starbridge and bit of
#projectjumpcannon
🚨 New series alert: Tech Talks with Tomer
(1/4) On EP. 1, SDF’s VP of Tech Strategy,
@tomerweller
talks
#Stellar
innovation & tech stack development with
@___leigh___
, SDF’s principal software engineer.
Name another chain (besides
@StellarOrg
with
@SorobanOfficial
) where clients can use the same SDK and types they're writing contracts with to write off-chain services, even inside another VM with minimal host-tweaking.
That's how composable Soroban is.
1/🚀 Exciting integration update from
#bandprotocol
! Supported by an award from the
#StellarCommunityFund
, we've integrated our pioneering oracle services with smart contracts on SorobanOfficial’s testnet,
@StellarOrg
's smart contracts platform, marking a significant step in
While working on State Archival, Stellar's solution to state bloat, we also looked at other solutions out there. This is a comparison with Avocado, a solution proposed by Solana's
@aeyakovenko
a couple of months ago. More coming.
Another 2c: Rust smart contracts come in many flavors, not just Solana. A similar contract, written using Soroban’s Rust SDK is IMO elegant and easier to understand using common programming concepts. I’m obviously biased. What do you think? (1/3)
My 2c: Rust has a very bright future as a systems programming language, which is what it was designed to do. But it's not a smart contract programming language, and when you try to use it as one, the gaps become apparent very quickly. Frameworks like Anchor have done very well in
Stellar is bringing Smart Contracts to it's Blockchain!
Tomer Weller, VP of Product at the Stelllar Development Foundation joins me to break it all down.
@tomerweller
@StellarOrg
@SorobanOfficial
WATCH ▶️
Topics:
- Adding Smart Contracts to the
I'm happy to share that
@StellarOrg
recently joined the
@bytecodeallies
. Open standards and collaboration is what made the Web great. We can do the same with Blockchain
(1/6) Sending money internationally just got easier! Beans has partnered with
@MoneyGram
to enable cash deposits and withdrawals from over 300.000+ locations worldwide. You can use Beans to send and receive money across borders instantly, without any bank hassles.
Let's dive in!
Stellar validators will be voting next Tuesday on a set of configuration changes that will significantly reduce fees and make them more predictable. Deets in this post
The
@Ledger
Stellar app is getting a face lift for Protocol 19. Are there any changes you'd like to see?
@overcat_me
is extremely responsive - feel free to comment here or on the gh pr
.
@BlockdaemonHQ
is a tier 1 Stellar validator and the most veteran RPC Provider in the ecosystem: they know their shit. Very excited to see them evolve with us and add support for
@SorobanOfficial
💪
1/2: The vote is in and the
@StellarOrg
and
#Stellar
network validators have approved the switch from Protocol 19 to Protocol 20. Today, Blockdaemon is excited to announce support for
@SorobanOfficial
’s, the smart contract layer of the Stellar blockchain.
@Lobstrco
🔛
#WalletoftheWeek
Not only do we love using LOBSTR to travel through the Stellar ecosystem, but we're blown away by their crypto-to-cash feature.
You can cash out your USDC at thousands of
@MoneyGram
locations worldwide. Talk about real impact on a 🗺️ scale!
⬇️ 1/2
The Stellar family is awesome. Yesterday I asked
@___leigh___
for help writing a proof-of-concept contract to make a point on Twitter. He cooked it up in no time. This morning
@FredericRezeau
had already reviewed the contract and submitted a bug report:
keeps pushing the envelope on transparency and accountability in the Stellar ecosystem. Historical archives are super important for decentralization but often overlooked in the crypto sphere.
@0xEmirr
I, personally, take Stellar very personally :)
SDF has some of the most talented, hard working and committed people I've ever met.
But we're not perfect and we can do better, especially in terms of community engagement.
What actions would you like to see us take?