Stellar monthly update covering major ecosystem developments including Bermuda's on-chain economy launch on Stellar, Lumenloop discovery platform, Protocol 26 with quorum freeze, institutional adoption from State Street and Franklin Templeton, and significant DeFi and infrastructure improvements across the network.
The Stellar monthly update show covers April and early May developments. Key highlights include Bermuda's government announcement to move payment and financial services on-chain using Stellar with USDC and Coinbase integration, launching a nationwide digital literacy program. Lumenloop.com launched as a discovery platform for Stellar ecosystem content and events. Protocol 26 went live with quorum freeze, enabling validators to freeze ledger entries for incident response without halting the network. Institutional developments include State Street and Galaxy launching a tokenized fund on Stellar, Franklin Templeton marking five years of Benji with nearly $2 billion TVL, and multiple new stablecoins launching including EURAAU. Infrastructure improvements include Alchemy adding native Stellar support, Layer 0 completing security audit, and Aquarius hitting 50 million TVL with concentrated liquidity pools. The ecosystem also saw Stellar Hacks with 591 participants and 288 submissions focused on AI agents and machine payments protocol.
