Alchemy now supports Stellar with full infrastructure including RPC, indexing, and developer tools. The announcement highlights Stellar's unique features: sub-5-second finality, Soroban smart contracts in Rust/WebAssembly, native institutional financial integrations, and active ecosystem building across payments, DeFi, RWAs, and neobanking.
Alchemy has launched native support for Stellar on its platform, providing 99.99% uptime infrastructure, RPC/websocket support, and developer tools for building on the Layer 1 blockchain. The article details Stellar's technical advantages including Soroban smart contracts (Rust/WebAssembly), sub-5-second finality with sub-cent fees, and direct connections to institutional partners like Franklin Templeton, MoneyGram, and PayPal. Current ecosystem activity spans payments and cross-border settlement, neobank apps in emerging markets, RWA tokenization (approximately $2 billion in value), DeFi protocols including SushiSwap V3, and stablecoins like USDC and PYUSD. Upcoming 2026 milestones include the x402 machine-to-machine payment protocol, LayerZero integration, faster 2.5-second finality, and privacy expansions.