Stellar

Intuitive Stellar Consensus Protocol

Distributed consensus is literally the core of Stellar, but it can be difficult to understand…

New releases: Stellar-core v12.0.0 + Horizon v0.21.0

Horizon just got a lot better: our new ingestion engine and other great stuff

Kelp: Why We Built It — The Liquidity Problem

Solving the most fundamental problem faced by exchanges

Why Quorums Matter and How Stellar Approaches Them

Stellar Protocol 11 Public Network Upgrade

Currently the planned coordination to upgrade the Stellar public network to Protocol 11 is scheduled for June 10th, 2019 at 1600 UTC. In order to be prepared for the upcoming switch, all developers building on Stellar will need to take the following steps…

May 15th Network Halt

At 1:14pm Pacific time, May 15th, the Stellar network halted for 67 minutes due to an inability to reach consensus. During that time no ledgers were closed and no transactions were processed — basically, Stellar stopped.

A New Ticker for the Stellar Community

We're very happy to announce that Stellar Development Foundation is releasing a new ticker…

ZkVM: a new design for fast, confidential smart contracts