Stellar Meridian 2026 wrapped major ecosystem announcements: Janus Henderson launched a blockchain-native Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar via Centrifuge, Archax brought euro government bonds onchain, Securitize joined as a tokenization platform integrator, and Curve Finance launched its stablecoin DEX. The conference highlighted Wall Street's institutional embrace and infrastructure scaling.
Stellar's Meridian 2026 conference in Lisbon unveiled significant institutional and technical advances. Centrifuge partnered with Janus Henderson to launch JQQQ, a blockchain-native Nasdaq-100 Index fund, marking the first equity benchmark tokenized on Stellar. Archax introduced €GOVY, a short-term eurozone government bond token with automatic reinvestment. Securitize, the world's largest tokenization platform with $4.3 trillion in assets, announced integration with Stellar to port tokenized assets from other networks. On the infrastructure front, MetaMask added Stellar as a default network on mobile and extension, WalletConnect rolled out merchant payment support in Bermuda, and Curve Finance launched on Stellar as its first native deployment outside EVM, enabling stablecoin and tokenized asset swaps. The event also featured the Enterprise Privacy Stack from Arcane and Predicate for compliance-ready confidential operations, and SDF's investment in Marketnode to expand institutional RWA access across Asia-Pacific.
