XLM’s price (blue line on the chart) coming into resistance (yellow and red levels above price) on short timeframes. Source: Material Indicators<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stellar (XLM) Development Foundation celebrated the launch of a preview for their upcoming smart contract platform, called \u201cSoroban\u201d. As part of their \u201cProject Jump Cannon\u201d, the initiative behind the development of the platform, the organization has invited developers to create their own contracts. Soroban\u2019s announcement has been highly anticipated by Stellar (XLM) users. This platform might provide the network with new use cases, and a new wave of adoption, and might provide it with the capabilities to compete with major blockchains, such as Ethereum. Per an official post, Stellar\u2019s smart contracts follow the project vision of providing users with an accessible, user-friendly, and scalable platform. The team behind the project claims Soroban has the potential to become the \u201cstandard for smart contracts\u201d in the crypto industry. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) claims that the crypto space lacks a smart contract platform with the above-mentioned features. Most \u201cpresent too many foot guns for developers\u201d. The SDF said the following on the preview for their smart contract platforms: We\u2019re doing it because we believe that we\u2019re building something special with Soroban, and true to our open-source roots, we believe it\u2019s important to share the development process. We want Stellar ecosystem developers and smart contract developers from other ecosystems to have a chance to make a meaningful impact together. Soroban will operate independently from Stellar but will be paired to this network to provide users and developers with accessibility and \u201cequitable access\u201d to the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The organization clarified that its smart contract platform will be built with Rust as its programming language. Unlike other popular programming languages in the sector, the SDF believes Rust provides more safety and \u201cefficient\u201d computation. Soroban will also implement WebAssembly (WASM) in its design to meet their scalable, \u201crobust and minimal bytecode specification\u201d. XLM With Potential To Extend Gains At the time of writing, XLM\u2019s price follows the general sentiment across the crypto market and seems poised to see further appreciation. The cryptocurrency trades at $0.11 with an 11% profit over the past week. In the short term, XLM records an increase in buying pressure since August 2nd which suggests investors were swayed by SDF\u2019s claims over the future of their smart contract platform. This could remain a critical bullish factor for the long term if the organization is able to launch Soroban on mainnet. Data provided by Material Indicators (MI) records an uptick in ask (sell) orders as XLM\u2019s price trends to the upside. As seen below, there are around $1 million in asks orders above XLM\u2019s price current levels with an uptick in buying pressure from retail investors. Stellar\u2019s bid liquidity seems to be getting thinner which could suggest a potential re-test of previous support levels. This could be invalidated if Bitcoin and other large cryptocurrencies keep pushing the crypto market to the upside. In that case, XLM\u2019s price could break resistance and hit $0.18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":403964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16891],"tags":[3970,12220,79498],"class_list":["post-497567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stellar-xlm","tag-stellar","tag-xlm","tag-xlmusdt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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