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Ethereum and Stellar are both enormous networks with real production deployments in payments. However, they were designed around different assumptions about what "payment" means, and those assumptions surface everywhere once you start building. This is a practical comparison based on what it actually takes to ship a payment product on each. Let's dive in!

A detailed technical deep-dive into Rumble Fish's Soroban block explorer architecture, explaining key decisions including Rust Lambdas for performance, ClickHouse over PostgreSQL reducing storage from 7TB to 900MB, and building a complete XDR ingestion pipeline independent of external APIs.

We're excited to announce that Rumble Fish has been awarded a $55,000 grant from the Stellar Community Fund (SCF #42) to build a Prices API - a unified, standardized data infrastructure layer for real-time and historical price information across all Stellar assets, both classic and SEP-41 Soroban tokens. This is our second grant from the Stellar Community Fund, following the $131,200 award from SCF #41 to build the Soroban-first Block Explorer. Together, they reflect a clear direction: Rumble Fish is here to build the infrastructure that makes the Stellar ecosystem stronger, more transparent, and more developer-friendly.

We're thrilled to announce that Rumble Fish has been awarded a $131,200 grant from the Stellar Community Fund (SCF #41) to build a Soroban-first Block Explorer, a tool designed to bring full transparency to the Soroban smart contract ecosystem on the Stellar network.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital trust, one of the most pressing challenges businesses face is surprisingly paradoxical: how do you prove something is true without revealing the information that makes it true? For years, companies have been forced to choose between privacy and verifiability - exposing sensitive data to auditors, partners, or regulators just to demonstrate compliance or eligibility. But that trade-off is quickly becoming obsolete. Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are emerging as one of the most powerful cryptographic tools of our era, enabling businesses to verify facts without disclosing the underlying data at all.

The blockchain industry has moved well past its "experimental" phase. With the global blockchain market valued at $32.99 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $393.45 billion by 2030, a staggering CAGR of 64.2% according to MarketsandMarkets, the question for most technology-forward businesses is no longer whether to build on blockchain, but with whom. That decision carries real consequences. Picking the wrong development partner means misaligned architecture, smart contract vulnerabilities, costly rewrites, and, perhaps most painfully, missed market windows. The right partner, by contrast, doesn't just write code. They own the complexity on your behalf, anticipate protocol-level pitfalls before they become production incidents, and build systems that scale as the ecosystem itself evolves. In this post, we break down the top blockchain development companies to consider in 2026 - what they specialize in, where they excel, and which type of project they're best suited for.