The Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco. Its mission is to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology by building, sustaining, and growing the Stellar network.
The foundation's primary technical output is the Stellar network, an open-source, decentralized blockchain designed to enable fast, low-cost, and energy-efficient transactions. It also develops Soroban, a native smart contracts platform on Stellar built for payments, asset tokenization, and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Engineering work at the foundation spans blockchain infrastructure, decentralized finance, asset tokenization, and smart contracts. The organization operates across financial services industry verticals including payments, remittances, and DeFi.
