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<a href="https://u.today/stellar-xlm-short-term-price-warning-issued-details" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Stellar (XLM)</a> is trading higher, up 8% in the last seven days. The price is currently at $0.2529, up 2% in the last 24 hours, which has seen new update releases for the Stellar ecosystem.
According to a <a href="https://x.com/StellarRelease/status/1942341016528511454" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Stellar release</a>, an X handle that shares updates to the Stellar ecosystem, Stellar Core v23.0.0rc2, a preliminary release of protocol 23, is live. This release contains all the protocol changes for the protocol 23 CAPs (CAP-62 to CAP-70, except the rejected CAP-64) and is a release candidate for protocol 23, which will be promoted to "stable" if the protocol 23 upgrade is successful on testnet.
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 RELEASE: stellar-core v23.0.0rc2Release Notes: <a href="https://t.co/ROviq9MQTN" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/ROviq9MQTN</a>— Stellar Release (@StellarRelease) <a href="https://twitter.com/StellarRelease/status/1942341016528511454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">July 7, 2025</a>
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Other releases include Stable Release v0.3.0, which includes advanced access control modules, enhanced features for stablecoins and NFTs, and a new Merkle Tree component. The majority of these new functionalities are now available directly in the OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard for Stellar.
<h2 id="stellar-gears-up-for-major-upgrade">Stellar gears up for major upgrade</h2>
Protocol 23 is expected to bring new Core Advancement Proposals (CAPs) to the <a href="https://u.today/stellar-users-can-now-earn-nfts-by-solving-difficult-quests-on-network-details" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Stellar network</a>.
New features in protocol 23 include state archival features that enable Soroban's live state to be moved into memory, support for parallel execution of Soroban transactions using a new "parallel" transaction set structure and a reusable inter-ledger cache for the Soroban Wasm modules, drastically lowering the cost of making cross-contract calls.
Other features include support for "unified" events, which enable the use of Soroban events to track any movement of tokens on the network: Stellar Core would be able to generate SEP-41-compliant events from all operations that include value movement.
The CAP-0067: Unified Asset Events also includes Soroban support for "multiplexed" accounts (M-accounts) and Stellar asset contract support for "multiplexed" transfer destinations, allowing for the implementation of exchange crypto-deposits of Soroban tokens and others.
The mainnet vote on the protocol 23 upgrade is scheduled for Aug. 14, 2025. <a href="https://u.today/stellar-xlm-welcomes-major-releases-price-up-8" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read original article on U.Today</a>

Stellar (XLM) Welcomes Major Releases, Price up 8%

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