DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Stellar's native compliance features like clawback, asset freezing, and privacy controls address why institutions haven't moved onchain. With $1.4B in tokenized real-world assets and partners like Franklin Templeton, Stellar positions itself as institutional settlement infrastructure rather than DeFi.
Splyce closes a strategic round backed by Sui, Stellar, and Solana foundations plus institutional allocators Lucid, Sarson, and Kin Capital. The company launches Single Asset Vaults, fixed-rate lending markets with zero oracles, plus splyceUSDC, a 7-8% yield token. The thesis: $300B+ tokenized RWAs need credit infrastructure, not DEX liquidity, to become productive capital.
RedStone shipped its integrated Stack for pricing, liquidation, and credit risk with Lotus Finance and Real Finance already live. The platform expanded to Stellar, Canton, and other networks with real-time oracle infrastructure now supporting institutional-grade DeFi and real-world asset applications.
OpenZeppelin Stellar Contracts v0.7.0 released with governance voting support, ZkEmail DKIM registry, smart accounts rework, and reorganized RWA module with compliance guidelines and examples.
Cashlink Technologies, FINEXITY Group, and Tangany launched a regulated tokenized capital market infrastructure on Stellar, backed by the Stellar Development Foundation. The system was validated through a €3 million tokenized bond issuance for Germany's Ratekau Solar Park, demonstrating institutional-grade efficiency for real-world infrastructure financing.
Normal Finance, a non-custodial on-chain investing protocol on Stellar, secured investment from DraperU Ventures led by the legendary Draper family. The protocol enables users to access cryptocurrencies, real assets, and index baskets with full key ownership and audited security.
Amundi and Spiko launched SAFO, a tokenized overnight swap fund with shareholder registers on Ethereum and Stellar, using Chainlink oracles for NAV data. The dual-chain structure leverages Stellar's low-cost transfers alongside Ethereum's smart contract ecosystem.
Tokenized real-world assets surpassed $12 billion by March 2026, more than doubling from $5 billion at the start of 2025. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries lead at $5.8 billion, while private credit tokenization grew 180% year-over-year. Ethereum hosts over 60% of all tokenized RWAs, with DeFi protocols like MakerDAO integrating billions in RWA collateral.
RedStone launched its oracle infrastructure on Stellar to support DeFi and RWA applications. Stellar's RWA value surpassed $1.3 billion, with Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund representing $678 million of that total.
Stellar research report examines the network's evolution into institutional financial infrastructure. Reports $246M in stablecoins spanning 9+ currencies, $1.4B in tokenized RWAs from regulated issuers like Franklin Templeton and Spiko, and 52.8M smart contract invocations in February alone, demonstrating operational scale for settlement and asset issuance.
This article explains why vaults are critical DeFi infrastructure for Stellar's evolution toward institutional adoption. It covers vault mechanics, the rise of curation as a financial discipline, and how Untangled is building vault infrastructure on Stellar to enable yield generation and asset management.
Axelar Network has integrated Stellar, enabling cross-chain access and liquidity. Solv, Stronghold, and Squid are already live, allowing users to bridge assets like solvBTC and SHx across chains while maintaining Stellar's efficiency and compliance infrastructure.
Stellar processed 3.6 billion transactions in 2025 with 99.99% uptime, reaching 10.3 million unique addresses and $785 million in onchain real-world assets. Major institutions including Franklin Templeton, U.S. Bank, PayPal, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands deployed production systems on Stellar, while payment volume hit $55.6 billion, up 52% year-over-year.
The Stellar Development Foundation and TopNod announced at Consensus Hong Kong that TopNod's non-custodial Web3 wallet is integrating with the Stellar network, expanding access to Stellar's infrastructure across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with a focus on real-world assets and stablecoins.
The Stellar Development Foundation hosted a successful AMA on r/CryptoCurrency on January 28, reaching ~30k views and fielding 127 comments. The discussion covered Protocol 25 upgrades, ZK primitives, smart contracts, RWAs (which crossed $1B), payments infrastructure, and ecosystem growth.
Stellar achieved major milestones in H2 2025, launching Protocol 23 (Whisk) and Protocol 25 (X-Ray) upgrades with enhanced privacy and performance capabilities. The network secured institutional partnerships including PayPal USD, U.S. Bank stablecoin testing, and Franklin Templeton expansion, while tokenized RWAs grew 172% year-over-year.
OctoVault introduces vault infrastructure for structured yield strategies on Stellar, enabling institutional capital deployment across RWAs and crypto assets. The platform packages DeFi primitives like Aquarius, Blend, and native stablecoins into allocatable products with enforceable risk controls, exemplified by USDyc (delta-neutral yield) and Indentura (stablecoin yield with institutional governance).
An analysis of why open blockchain networks offer superior legal and regulatory advantages for institutions managing critical financial operations, using the October 2025 AWS outage as a case study demonstrating the risks of centralized sequencers and single points of failure.
Etherfuse has partnered with Shinhan Securities to expand tokenized sovereign debt in Korea and Asia, leveraging high-performance blockchains including Stellar. The collaboration aims to provide institutional access to onchain government bonds with preserved economic structures and regulatory alignment. This reflects growing interest in blockchain for enhancing efficiency in traditional capital markets.
Stellar's financial ecosystem expanded significantly in 2025, with stablecoin market cap growing 53% to $243.6M driven by PayPal's PYUSD launch, while RWA market cap surged 196% to $890.2M. U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on Stellar, and the Marshall Islands completed the world's first onchain universal basic income disbursement by a national government.
Trustless Work introduces escrow-native trade flows for B2B platforms and marketplaces, enabling secure cross-border transactions using stablecoins on Stellar. The platform replaces traditional letters of credit and prepayment risks with smart contract-enforced escrow that holds buyer funds until delivery verification.
The Stellar Development Foundation published a comprehensive 2025 year-in-review highlighting major ecosystem growth: RWAs grew 172%, TVL reached $211M+ (up 95%), and the network processed 21.5B+ operations across 10M+ active accounts. Key institutional milestones included PayPal USD going live on Stellar, Franklin Templeton expanding tokenized Treasuries to European investors, and the Marshall Islands completing the world's first onchain UBI disbursement.
RedSwan Digital Real Estate CEO Ed Nwokedi discussed tokenization's impact on real estate investing at Stellar House Miami, highlighting how bringing $100M in tokenized commercial real estate to Stellar lowers investment barriers and creates new capital sources for the industry.
21X, Europe's first regulated DLT trading and settlement system, launched Stellar network integration, enabling institutional trading and settlement of tokenized securities on a regulated European venue for the first time.
Denelle Dixon interviews Austin Campbell, founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and NYU Stern professor, on how blockchain fundamentally changes money settlement and financial infrastructure. Campbell argues stablecoins represent a structural upgrade enabling faster velocity and capital efficiency, while real-world asset tokenization only succeeds when it opens access to previously closed markets.
