Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 focusing on delivered features, fixed bugs, impact, and skills demonstrated for stellar/stellar-disbursement-platform-backend.

December 2025: Delivered key authentication reliability improvements in the backend and refreshed Anchor Platform documentation with updated architecture visuals. The work focused on reducing client ambiguity in SEP-10 errors and aligning HTTP responses with semantics, while simplifying onboarding through up-to-date guides and diagrams. Cross-repo collaboration resulted in clearer error signaling, better tests, and maintainable docs, driving faster client integration and reduced support overhead.

Month: 2025-11. Delivered key features and fixes across two repositories to improve financial accuracy, robustness, and developer experience. In the backend, replaced float64 with shopspring decimal to improve precision in financial calculations and enforced a minimum channel accounts validation to prevent misconfigurations. In docs, introduced SEP Guides section under Anchor Platform to enhance navigation and accessibility. Overall impact includes higher transaction correctness, reduced risk of arithmetic and input errors, and better documentation discoverability. Technologies demonstrated include Go, financial precision libraries (shopspring decimal), robust input validation, and documentation engineering.

Month: 2025-10. Focused on delivering high-precision documentation improvements that reduce integration risk and accelerate developer onboarding. Key features delivered: Anchor Platform Documentation version 4.0 with contract accounts support in SEP-6 and SEP-24, plus detailed configuration guidance for Stellar RPC servers and clarifications on JWT secret size and SEP-45 web authentication references. Major bugs fixed: SEP-0024 documentation corrections, including fixing a mistaken merge marker and correcting account field descriptions for deposit/withdrawal. Overall impact and accomplishments: improved accuracy and clarity across critical onboarding docs, enabling faster integrations with contract accounts and more reliable SEP-based flows. Technologies/skills demonstrated: technical writing for complex protocols, cross-repo documentation coordination, versioned documentation updates, and attention to correctness in schema and authentication references.

Month: 2025-09. Focused on documentation and specification updates for Soroban Contract Accounts and SEP-45 authentication within the stellar/stellar-protocol repository. Updated SEP-24 and SEP docs to include Soroban contract accounts and SEP-45 support; clarified account types; expanded authentication options beyond SEP-10 to improve interoperability and security for Stellar transactions. No major bugs reported this month; the work strengthens readiness for Soroban adoption and aligns documentation with SEP standards.

April 2025 — Focused on strengthening authentication policy and aligning SEP-0010 guidance within stellar-protocol. Delivered a precise signature-count verification update: a manage_data operation with key 'client_domain' now requires three signatures; otherwise, two signatures are sufficient. This documentation and policy alignment fixes edge-case authentication failures and enhances cross-service security for client-domain operations. The change is linked to [ANCHOR-1031] and committed as dc14a03e86860583697031f91422122bd3ec1806, reflecting a targeted fix in the SEP-0010 flow.

October 2024: Documentation Versioning Standardization in stellar/stellar-docs. Implemented standardized version directory naming from major.minor.path to major.minor to improve consistency and navigation within ap_versioned_docs. This change simplifies version selection, reduces navigation friction, and aligns with the documented versioning policy.