1. The Stellar Development Foundation found a vulnerability in the Stellar Core v20.1.0 software on January 25.
2. The vulnerability is associated with the new 'Soroban' smart contract transactions.
3. Once the upgrade is completed, the vulnerability theoretically could impact applications and services using the Soroban smart contract functionality.
4. Foundation members believe that, due to the phased rollout plan, the vulnerability poses minimal risk.
5. In response to feedback from the developer community, the Foundation plans to remove its own validator nodes to prevent them from voting to upgrade the network.
6. This proactive step is taken to address concerns and enhance network security in light of the identified vulnerability.
