Stellar Development Foundation Delays Protocol 20 Update Following Bug Discovery
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It has Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). He decided to disarm The auditors voted last week to postpone the January 30 update to Protocol 20 after a bug was discovered in the Stellar Core code.
“Improving the network is not something SDF does alone, and we've opened threads on the Stellar Dev Discord and our developer mailing list and encouraged the ecosystem to weigh in to inform the decision whether to move forward if there's a problem.” he said.
The bug discovered on January 25th relates to payments for Soroban smart contracts on the Stellar blockchain.
According to the SDF, if the reform goes ahead as planned, The mistake It doesn't pose much threat but it can affect various applications and services using these phishing transactions.
Protocol 20 aims to introduce smart contract functionality to the Stellar network through a phased release of the Soroban platform. Tyler van der Hoeven, one of the developers of Stellar Core, mentioned on X that Protocol 20 will gradually enable Soroban's capabilities.
“The creative pipeline will be turned on slowly and carefully and will be a planned release” Hoeven he said..
Soroban went live on the Stellar testnet last October 2022, alongside a $100 million fund launched by SDF to attract developers. Stellar is a payments-focused blockchain network natively powered by the XLM token. It currently has a capitalization of $3.2 billion, making it one of the largest cryptocurrency projects by valuation.
The decision to delay will give the development team time to release a new version of Stellar Core to fix the payload eclipse bug. SDF said it will coordinate with other verifiers to set a new update date once the fix is found, which is expected within two weeks.
After a new date is proposed, the confirmatory quorum will still be asked to vote. Currently 43 validating nodes They are active on the network From December 2023 onwards, it will have to approve 22 future reform proposals.
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