Stellar Mainnet Upgraded to Protocol 28 'Adapter' to Enhance Consensus and Smart Contracts

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that the 'Protocol 28: Adapter' upgrade is now live on the Stellar mainnet. This update introduces three Core Advancement Proposals (CAPs) to improve network performance and developer experience. CAP-83 optimizes the consensus process, allowing validators to proceed even when transaction sets are delayed, thereby increasing throughput. CAP-85 enables atomic upgrades for multiple smart contracts sharing the same base code, while CAP-86 introduces a 'sparse' data structure to facilitate easier migration of contract data. Developers using standard SDKs should update to the latest version, though existing smart contracts remain compatible without modification.