The Stellar Development Foundation wrote a $20 million check to a Franklin Templeton Fund that runs on the Stellar blockchain. Here’s why. (read more)

Life is all about choices, and your choice of smart contract platform is on different. SDF’s Bri Wylde makes the case for why devs should build on Soroban over other alternatives out there. (read more)

This blog post will show you step by step on how SDF engineer Jeesun Kim built the Pay by Phone feature using Stellar Ecosystem Proposal-30 (SEP-30) with frontend code snippets. (read more)

The payment app that leverages stablecoins for fast and cheap transfer was designed to be user-friendly for trauma and disaster victims. That’s why Stellar Aid Assist is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023. (read more)

Blockchain allows the unbanked or underbanked “to participate in financial infrastructure to the extent and to the level that they want to.” (read more)

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon said America wants to set the standard so stablecoin regulation should be expected this year. (read more)

Learn how to create a Stellar smart contract with our guide using Soroban effectively and takings advantage of its flexible features. (read more)

Join us for an interactive Soroban Developer Workshop, hosted by community developer Morgan Wilde and SDF engineer Paul Bellamy. In this hands-on session, they will guide you step-by-step in creating your first smart contract on Soroban. (read more)

Technology is changing fast, and money transfer businesses and financial institutions need to keep pace. But with so many different options for digital transformation, choosing the right tech can be extremely difficult. (read more)

Soroban, the new smart contract platform for Stellar, enables the Stellar ecosystem to revolutionize the way the network is used. Once Soroban is released to mainnet, best-in-class DAO tooling… (read more)

/PRNewswire/ -- Arf, the Swiss-regulated global settlement banking platform, with support from the Stellar Development Foundation, is now offering the world’s... (read more)

The world of digital finance has witnessed an explosion in recent years, and security tokens have become one of the hottest topics recently as the space moves toward real-world use cases in the face of centralized exchange blow-ups. (read more)

We’re highlighting an inspiring community developer, Christian Rogobete (Soneso), a Stellar SDK wizard! Learn about how Christian got into programming, his foray into blockchain, and his experiences with Stellar in the second edition of Developers on Stellar. (read more)

Stellar’s ecosystem is thriving with financial institutions & fintechs using low fees, fast speeds & interoperability for innovative products & services (read more)

Interoperability dates back to the evolution of money and the internet. Thus, it’s a term that can be used to mean a lot of different things. This article contextualizes Stellar’s definition of interoperability within the history of the term, finance, and the internet. (read more)

Every quarter, SDF and DFS Lab host a 5-day long bootcamp that connects startups with members from SDF and the ecosystem to accelerate development from idea to viable solution on Soroban and/or Stellar. Apply to participate before March 28 to get selected for the first batch. (read more)

VELO, the cryptocurrency issued on the Stellar Network, is trending following a spike in trading fees despite a market downturn. (read more)

The Stellar Community Fund is an open-application program that draws on community input to distribute awards to support projects built on Stellar and Soroban. (read more)

Pull Mode is a new feature of Stellar Core, that makes transaction propagation on the platform more efficient. This in turn shortens the time needed to close a ledger, increasing the transactions-per-second rate. (read more)