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Get a strong foundational knowledge of the ecosystem, and learn how to build on Soroban, our Smart Contract Program designed to maximize opportunities for innovation on Stellar.

Developer Blueprints for Success

Read the whitepaper to gain an understanding of how the SCP blockchain operates.

Stellar Consensus Protocol

Visit the Stellar documentation repository.

Learn about the Stellar Stack

Gain an understanding of how to test and deploy safely.

Learn about Testnet and Pubnet

Read documentation on how to build essential Smart Contract functions.

Advanced Smart Contract Tutorials

Stellar Docs

Explore what makes Stellar... Stellar!

Set up your local environment

Create your first Soroban contract

Browse How-to Guides

Smart Contract Docs

Get started with Soroban Smart Contracts

Make your way through Sorobanland, the ecosystem guide to Soroban developer programs and resources.

Exploring the Soroban Ecosystem

Sorobanland

Get ready for an adrenaline-pumped, mind-blowing Soroban developer experience where you're not just playing a game, you're rewriting history with every challenge you conquer.

RPCiege

It’s not just a tutorial, it’s a game. Have some fun learning to build world-class apps with Stellar Quest.


Stellar Quest: Gamified Learning

Leverage Soroban in arcade-like learning challenges.

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

More Resources

Level up your Learning

We want your app to thrive. Explore comprehensive sets of tools for building and managing applications to grow your app and drive adoption.

Join the conversation on the Stellar Discord, ask questions, and post some memes.

Discord

Explore the ledger with this Stellar network block explorer and data tool.


Stellar Expert

Get real-time metrics on Stellar’s public network and testnet. 

Laboratory

Make use of wallets that help your users interact with the Stellar network.

Wallets

A sandbox for businesses to experiment with asset issuance on the Stellar testnet network.

Asset Issuance Sandbox

View the validators and connections that make up the network.

Node Monitoring

Tools

Tools to unlock success

The Stellar Development Foundation offers grants and funding to projects building on and contributing to the growth of both the Stellar network and Soroban, Stellar’s native smart contracts platform. Explore our grants and award programs and see if you’re eligible to apply today.

Funding

Accelerate your Project

Get involved with the Stellar developer community. Interact with other Stellar devs, keep up with ecosystem standards and learn about upcoming workshops and events.

Updates and news with a focus on business applications and partnerships, along with articles and thought leadership pieces from industry experts.

LinkedIn

You got questions, we got answers. Find them here on our Q&A site for devs and users of the Stellar network.

Stack Exchange

Follow the Stellar Development Foundation on Twitter for the latest updates, news, and community highlights.

Twitter

Unleash the Stellar network’s full potential by visiting our active hub of innovation on GitHub, the internet’s premier developer repository.

Stellar GitHub

Community Resources

Connect with the community

Your go-to guide for upgrading to Protocol 20, which introduces support for Soroban smart contracts to Stellar.

Protocol 20 Upgrade Guide

The release of a full suite of software that supports Protocol 20, which will bring Soroban smart contracts to Stellar is available. With the technical pieces in place, the Stellar network validators has set vote for upgrade. Following the vote, a phased approach that will gradually and responsibly increase capacity for Soroban transactions to monitor the impact of smart contract functionality on the network to go into action.


The Stellar Network’s Phased Rollout of Smart Contracts: The Road to Mainnet

Discover the upcoming Protocol 20 upgrade on the Stellar network, introducing Soroban smart contracts. Learn about the development process, impact on the network, and resources for developers to prepare for the upgrade.

Protocol 20: Preparing for Smart Contracts on Stellar

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These docs aim first to teach you the fundamentals to help you build on the Stellar network. We’ll walk you through how to set up for each use case, and then how to run your own Horizon API instance and validator node.

The Stellar Network Docs

Learn how to create highly secure and customizable blockchain applications and products on Soroban that automate business processes and transactions.

Start Building

Ready, Set, Build

Explore documentation, tooling, & community support to help you get your blockchain project up quickly. Take advantage of learning resources to support blockchain development.

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Stellar, or Stellar Lumens, is an open source, decentralized protocol for digital currency to fiat money low-cost transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies.

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Find all the documentation, tools, tutorials, and support you need to build your big ideas. Get started with Soroban smart contracts or dive into Stellar network.