Soroban, the developer preview of the new SmartContract platform is NOW LIVE! It’s a unique opportunity for developers to influence the new platform in it's infancy! Stellar Development Foundation's VP of Tech Strategy Tomer Weller swings by to give us a quick breakdown on the new platform, the origin of the name Sorobon, what you can do and where you can get plugged in as you begin to explore potential use cases for smart contracts within your own projects.  More on Soroban: "....With this preview, developers can write and test contracts on their local machine without depending on a running network. It focuses on contract development, rather than complete dApp development. This means that, for example, you can write and test a liquidity pool contract, but not (yet) a full liquidity pool app that indexes and consumes trade data. You can now write contracts with initial versions of the Soroban environment, SDK, and CLI. There are also some early Docs and Examples to help get you started. In the next few iterations, we will be introducing an events system, indexing service, better gas metering, a Stellar Core integration, and much more. This is the first time in the history of the SDF in which we are releasing such an early preview. We’re doing it because we believe that we’re building something special with Soroban, and true to our open-source roots, we believe it’s 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. Put another way, we want your feedback! Test it out, see what you can do, and let us know what you think. But don’t forget this is a preview. Expect your code to break, realize that updates will shift things, and understand that the release version of Soroban may be a significantly changed product. Follow Sam on Twitter Visit Stellar Global --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/samconner/support