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This guide is designed to help businesses and developers prepare for Yardstick, Protocol 26, with key dates, release information, a changelog, and more.

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Stellar is now a settlement layer for x402, the protocol that lets AI agents pay for things on the internet.

x402 on Stellar: unlocking payments for the new agent economy

The institutional privacy paradox: the real barrier to blockchain adoption

The increased institutional adoption of public blockchains for financial activity has intensified the debate on how to enable privacy on open networks. The idea may initially sound like a belated attempt to reconcile two contradictory goals. But it is, in fact, the evolution of a discussion that began with the Bitcoin White Paper itself, which has a section devoted to privacy. 

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At Freighter, we’ve been obsessed with making our browser extension feel instantaneous. But after diving into real-world metrics, we discovered that initial load times were much slower than we wanted. After several weeks of auditing, profiling, and optimizing, we reduced the load time to 1.27 seconds—a 63% improvement that made the app feel dramatically faster and more responsive.

Making Freighter Faster: How We Improved Load Times by 63%

How do you execute a large trade without the entire market front-running you? On blockchain, where everything is transparent, this turns out to be a surprisingly hard problem.

Building a Dark Pool on Stellar: MPC, FHE, and TEEs Compared

Here, we discuss why two features often sold as strengths, “economic security” and “financial incentives,” can become operational liabilities. We will contrast this with the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), a model designed for issuers who require explicit trust, clear accountability, and designed to mitigate systemic risks that arise in adversarial economic environments.

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Stellar's 2025 Year in Review: $55.6B in payment volume, $1B+ in real-world assets onchain, and major deployments from Franklin Templeton, PayPal, Visa, and more.

End of Year 2025 Report – Execution at Scale

Verify RISC Zero zkVM execution inside a Stellar smart contract. Step-by-step guide to generating proofs off-chain and validating them on-chain with Stellar using Groth16.

Verifying RISC Zero Execution In A Stellar Smart Contract

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There are moments when entire industries shift — from laying the foundation to accelerating the climb. For blockchain and digital assets, that moment is now. And the person stepping in to help lead that next chapter for Stellar is José Fernández da Ponte.

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Explore the vulnerabilities of Proof-of-Stake blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, and discover how the Stellar network's Proof-of-Agreement offers a secure alternative.

Proof-of-Stake vs. Proof-of-Agreement: The Stellar Network's Security Edge

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