SDF leadership announces Project Throughput, achieving 7 million transactions per second on FutureNet, reimagining blockchain capacity as a scalable resource. The keynote covers institutional adoption, network resilience, and Stellar's positioning in the utility era of finance.
At Meridian 2026, SDF leadership revealed Project Throughput, a technical breakthrough achieving 7 million transactions per second in benchmarks, fundamentally rethinking blockchain capacity as a scalable, abundance-based resource rather than a fixed constraint. The keynote addressed how Stellar has become the network of choice for major institutions—Franklin Templeton launched the first U.S.-registered fund on blockchain via Stellar, MoneyGram integrated stablecoins, Visa settles payments, and DTCC is enabling asset tokenization. The network has moved from the initial question of 'how do we get money on-chain?' to the utility era question: 'what does money do once it's there?' This represents Stellar's shift toward supporting complex financial workflows at institutional scale.
