DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
RedSwan Digital Real Estate is tokenizing $100 million in commercial real estate assets on Stellar, enabling fractional ownership and 24/7 secondary market liquidity for global investors through regulatory-compliant securities.
RedSwan Digital Real Estate, a FINRA-regulated marketplace, has tokenized $100 million in commercial real estate assets on the Stellar blockchain, enabling fr…
RedSwan Digital Real Estate, a tokenized real estate issuer, is leveraging the Stellar network to democratize access to commercial real estate investments thr…
Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) V2 is launching on Stellar, enabling seamless USDC transfers between Stellar and 15 other blockchains including …
Mercado Bitcoin announced at Stellar Meridian 2025 that it will issue $200 million in tokenized fixed income and equity instruments on the Stellar network, st…
Webacy has been selected as a recipient of the Stellar Community Fund Build Award in SCF Round #38. Out of 83 submissions, 24 projects were chosen for their c…
PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin is now live on the Stellar network, expanding access through wallets and platforms like Bitcoin.com, Chipper Cash, and Lobstr. T…
MoneyGram is launching a stablecoin-based cross-border payment solution in Colombia powered by Stellar, Crossmint, and Circle's USDC. The mobile app lets users receive funds instantly, store USD stablecoins, and cash out globally with lower fees and faster settlement than traditional methods.
A Stellar Development Foundation Senior Marketing Advisor shares their first-month experience joining @StellarOrg to lead APAC strategy. They highlight Stella…
MoneyGram launched a next-generation mobile app featuring a USD-backed stored value account powered by Stellar blockchain and USDC stablecoins, enabling insta…
MoneyGram launched a next-generation mobile app in Colombia powered by Stellar and USDC stablecoins, enabling users to instantly receive, hold, and spend USD-…
MoneyGram integrates Crossmint's wallet and stablecoin infrastructure on the Stellar Network to enable instant USDC remittances, allowing recipients to receiv…
Stellar Development Foundation outlines a three-part strategy to bring privacy to Stellar while maintaining openness and compliance. The approach includes fun…
Ondo Finance has launched USDY, its yield-bearing stablecoin, on the Stellar network, enabling users to access 5.3% APY on tokenized U.S. Treasuries. The inte…
Centrifuge is launching deRWA (Decentralized Real-World Asset) products on Stellar with a $20M investment, debuting two yield-bearing funds: deJTRSY (Janus He…
Centrifuge announced the launch of deRWA on Stellar, introducing tokenized real-world asset strategies including deJTRSY (Treasury) and deJAAA (CLO) with $20M…
MoneyGram integrated Crossmint's wallet and stablecoin infrastructure to enable users to receive, store, and earn on USDC deposits using Stellar Network, laun…
The Stellar Development Foundation outlines its comprehensive strategy for implementing privacy on the Stellar blockchain while maintaining openness and compliance. The approach combines opt-in, configurable privacy at the application layer with three key work streams: supporting research and innovation, investing in core privacy infrastructure like zero-knowledge proofs, and building open-source solutions including confidential tokens.
This article compares Hedera Hashgraph and Stellar Lumens as leading platforms for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, highlighting their distinct strengths:…
Guide to integration testing best practices for Soroban smart contracts, covering realistic local network setup, end-to-end user flows, state validation, edge…
Guide to integration testing best practices for Soroban smart contracts using JavaScript, covering realistic local network testing, end-to-end user flows, sta…
The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) #38 round received 83 submissions and awarded $2,568,750 worth of XLM to 24 innovative projects. Funded initiatives span DeFi platforms, wallets, payment solutions, real-world applications like food delivery and remittances, and developer tools for the Stellar ecosystem. This round highlights the rapid evolution and community commitment to building practical utility on Stellar.
Range's Stablecoin Explorer provides a unified view of stablecoin transactions across 100+ chains including Stellar, and 21 bridges, solving cross-chain visibility issues for wallets, dApps, and bridges. It offers one-step integration with full transaction lifecycle tracking, entity enrichment, and blacklist integration. Teams can link users to a single explorer for improved UX without engineering overhead.
Stellar completed a mainnet vote to launch Protocol 23, introducing eight Core Advancement Protocols that enable parallel smart contract execution, faster transaction processing, and improved scalability. The upgrade comes as Stellar's DeFi ecosystem surges with institutional adoption, including Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund and Circle's USDC.
Certora organized the first formal verification contests for Rust-based Soroban smart contracts on Stellar, partnering with Code4rena and Cantina. The contests for Blend v2 and Aquarius protocols featured a 40,000 USDC prize pool and used mutation testing to evaluate specifications. They demonstrated the effectiveness of Certora's Sunbeam prover in securing DeFi protocols on Stellar.
21X, Europe's first fully regulated DLT trading and settlement system, has launched on the Stellar network as its second blockchain, enabling institutional trading of tokenized securities on a regulated secondary market in the EU.
Hoops Finance's CTO Tim Baker details their indexer upgrades on Stellar for Protocol 23 support, resumable ingestion, and historical contract specs. They store raw transaction data before parsing, resume from exact pages to avoid re-ingestion, and maintain historical WASM bytecode to correctly parse upgraded contracts. This ensures precise, durable data across Postgres, MongoDB, and Neo4j for market analytics and dashboards.
The Stellar Development Foundation announced that all SDF projects are unaffected by a major NPM supply chain attack discovered on September 8, 2025. SDF cond…
EquitX introduces synthetic stocks (xAssets) on the Stellar blockchain, enabling users to gain exposure to real-world equities like Tesla without owning actua…
