DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Boundless has won a Stellar Community Fund Build Award to develop its milestone-based funding platform on Stellar. The platform uses Soroban smart contracts and escrow to ensure accountable, verifiable payouts for grants, bounties, and crowdfunding. This addresses key Web3 funding issues like upfront payments and lack of transparency.
Allbridge launches a multi-wave on-chain campaign to introduce users to the Stellar ecosystem through practical quests and rewards. The campaign features a $10,000 reward pool across five two-week waves, starting December 22, focusing on bridging assets and interacting with Stellar protocols. Supported by the Stellar Development Foundation, it emphasizes DeFi, asset issuance, and real-world adoption.
LumosCore announces a 50 million LUMOS liquidity provider incentive program over 25 months across Stellar and XRPL, distributing 2 million tokens monthly to support deeper liquidity and tighter spreads ahead of multi-chain infrastructure updates.
Jay Malve has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Normal after just four months as a Full Stack Engineer. His contributions include architecting onchain index funds built on Stellar and enhancing the company's engineering culture. Jay outlines his vision for seamless crypto adoption across chains with intuitive products.
Stellar Meridian 2025 in Rio showcased the evolution of Stellar's blockchain into production-grade infrastructure for payments, identity, RWAs, and stablecoins. Key sessions highlighted open systems, regulatory progress, privacy innovations, and real-world applications from partners like MoneyGram, Nubank, and Ondo Finance. LATAM and Africa emerged as blueprints for financial inclusion and efficient money movement.
Beans integrated DeFindex to launch stablecoin yield features in 3 weeks, attracting $610K in deposits within 90 days. The partnership eliminated 11+ months of development work by using DeFindex's pre-built yield infrastructure instead of building in-house.
Templar, a lending protocol powered by NEAR's chain abstraction, launches on Stellar enabling users to deposit XLM and borrow stablecoins across multiple chains from a single wallet. The integration expands Stellar's RWA ecosystem and unlocks cross-chain liquidity.
Stellar has partnered with Chainlink to integrate CCIP, Data Feeds, and Data Streams into the Stellar ecosystem, enabling secure cross-chain asset transfers and institutional-grade tokenization while advancing financial inclusion for underbanked populations.
EquitX partners with Runtime Verification for a comprehensive security audit of its v1 core contracts ahead of its December mainnet launch on Stellar. The audit, supported by the Stellar Development Foundation's Soroban Audit Bank, ensures the protocol's synthetic equities are trustless, transparent, and robust. This step underscores EquitX's commitment to security as it introduces borderless access to equities.
Hoops Finance releases version 0.5.0, introducing a unified identity layer with WebAuthn passkeys, zero-knowledge SRP authentication, and seamless Stellar wallet integration via SEP-10. Developers gain enhanced API keys, token logos, and standardized data endpoints for easier integration. The update improves performance, security, and sets the foundation for upcoming Smart Accounts, Vault Rewards, and onchain risk algorithms on Stellar.
The Stellar i³ Awards 2025 recognized three standout projects at Stellar Meridian: Decaf won Impact for its non-custodial stablecoin app with 50k users, Etherfuse won Innovation for tokenized government treasuries and peso stablecoins, and DeFindex won Interoperability for its plug-and-play DeFi API for wallets.
Myosin hosted a marketing-focused event at Korea Blockchain Week in partnership with Stellar, featuring panels on crypto GTM strategies, a discussion on crypto and traditional finance convergence, and marketing roasts of projects including Blend Capital, a DeFi lending protocol on Stellar.
A comprehensive tutorial on implementing tokenized vaults on Stellar Soroban following the ERC-4626 standard pattern. The article explains vault mechanics, security considerations like inflation attacks, and details both read-only and state-changing vault functions for deposits, withdrawals, and asset conversions.
Normal Finance is building a platform to provide one-click diversified crypto exposure across chains without bridges or CEXs, solving fragmentation for everyday investors. They chose Stellar for its low costs, speed, scalability, global accessibility, and focus on real financial solutions over speculation. Currently, Normal has a live testnet and is preparing for mainnet launch on Stellar.
Hoops Finance shares their success in the Myosin x BuildOnStellar GTM Accelerator, winning best Go-To-Market Strategy by refining their messaging around Stellar-based Smart Accounts and APIs. They highlight their Meridian 2025 pitch in Rio and the launch of Trustfall: Vault Wars, a gamified DeFi experience on Stellar. The post outlines future plans to scale their innovative DeFi tools.
Stellar held its Meridian conference in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 17-18, showcasing DeFi and real-world asset ecosystem growth. Major announcements included Meridian Pay smart wallet, integrations from Ondo Finance (USDY), Etherfuse (TESOURO stablebond), LayerZero, and MoneyGram, alongside discussions on stablecoin adoption in emerging markets and tokenized asset momentum.
Centrifuge is launching deRWA (Decentralized Real-World Asset) products on Stellar with a $20M investment, debuting two yield-bearing funds: deJTRSY (Janus Henderson Short-Term US Treasury strategy) and deJAAA (AAA-rated CLO strategy). The launch leverages LayerZero's interoperability and ecosystem partners including Aquarius, Soroswap, Blend, and DeFIndex to enable trading, lending, borrowing, and yield generation.
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.
EquitX introduces synthetic stocks (xAssets) on the Stellar blockchain, enabling users to gain exposure to real-world equities like Tesla without owning actual shares. The platform supports long, short, swing, and passive investment strategies through minting, trading on DEXs, and stability pools. It emphasizes maintaining collateral ratios above 110% to avoid liquidation while offering DeFi accessibility.
EquitX has received two awards totaling $150,000 from the Stellar Community Fund to develop its Synthetic Stocks Protocol on the Stellar blockchain. The protocol enables synthetic small-cap equities like xUSD and xTesla using collateralized debt positions backed by XLM. This bridges traditional markets with DeFi, leveraging Stellar's low-cost blockspace, DEXs, and Soroban smart contracts.
EquitX is a DeFi protocol on Stellar that enables synthetic equities and starts with xUSD, minted via collateralized debt positions using XLM. It avoids traditional tokenization issues by using a derivatives model with oracles, stability pools, and programmatic liquidations for price tracking and solvency. This boosts Stellar's TVL, XLM utility, and provides stock-like exposure with crypto-native composability.
The US Department of Commerce has posted quarterly GDP data on the Stellar network for the first time in US government history, creating an immutable and publicly auditable record of critical economic data. This development demonstrates government adoption of blockchain technology and enables new use cases in DeFi, automated trading, and real-world asset tokenization.
Vanish Trade, a privacy-first trading platform on Solana, partners with Range for real-time risk screening to balance privacy and compliance. Range provides cross-chain intelligence, sanctions monitoring, and KYB/KYT analytics to prevent illicit activity while protecting legitimate traders. Range also supports Stellar and other ecosystems in onchain compliance.
Normal announces the hiring of full-stack engineer Jay Malve to bolster its team ahead of the Normal Protocol's launch on the Stellar blockchain mainnet. Jay, a hackathon winner with blockchain experience from ETH Denver, will enhance platform usability and development. The protocol offers custom crypto indexes, trading of top 200 cryptocurrencies, and DeFi features like lending and borrowing.
The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) #37 round awarded $1,861,405 worth of XLM to 19 innovative projects building on the Stellar blockchain. Projects span DeFi protocols, privacy solutions, real-world assets, wallets, and developer tools. Out of 76 submissions, 43 were first-time applicants, showcasing the vibrant Stellar ecosystem.
July was a landmark month for Stellar, featuring new SDF leadership appointments, major integrations with Visa for stablecoin settlement, and significant ecosystem advances in DeFi, cross-chain communication, and developer tooling. The network celebrated its 11th birthday while the community engaged in global hackathons and grant programs.