DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
Bermuda announced it will move key payment and financial-services activity onchain using the Stellar network, becoming the world's first fully onchain national economy. The initiative aims to reduce payment processing fees and increase financial inclusion through digital wallets and stablecoin-based payments.
Normal Finance launched a non-custodial savings app on Stellar that lets users earn variable APY on USDC through DeFindex vaults and Blend Capital lending, with no lockups or custody risk.
Stellar Development Foundation announces new Market Development leadership across six regions: Latin America, Brazil, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and APAC. The team will focus on converting Stellar's existing footprint into institutional adoption through region-specific knowledge and on-the-ground presence.
DTCC and Stellar Development Foundation announced plans to tokenize DTC-custodied assets on the Stellar network, approved by an SEC No-Action Letter. The service will enable faster settlement and greater asset mobility while maintaining investor protections. Expected launch in H1 2027.
x402 embeds HTTP payment directly into the web, enabling AI agents to pay for API calls with USDC on Stellar. Developers can monetize endpoints with 30 lines …
Stellar's Q1 2026 report shows major milestones: RWAs crossed $2B (2.5x growth), payment volume hit $5.5B all-time high, and the developer ecosystem grew 86% …
Mesh integrates with Stellar network as core settlement layer for stablecoin payments. The partnership formalizes Stellar's role in Mesh's ecosystem, combinin…
Drips launched Wave, a grants program for open source developers on Stellar, completing three cycles with thousands of contributors. The team also partnered w…
21X, the EU's first regulated DLT trading and settlement system, is now live on Stellar, hosting $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets. The multi-chain venue enables institutional trading and settlement of digital securities across blockchain networks.
Figure launches YLDS, a regulated yield-bearing stablecoin on Stellar, offering fintechs and neobanks in LATAM a compliant dollar savings product that earns yield similar to money market funds.
Figure Technology Solutions launched YLDS, an SEC-registered, USD-pegged stablecoin with yield on Stellar. The product combines stablecoin liquidity with mone…
State Street and Galaxy Asset Management launched SWEEP, a tokenized cash-management fund for institutional investors on Solana, with expansion planned to Eth…
x402 is an HTTP status code that enables AI agents to autonomously pay for API resources using Stellar blockchain payments. The protocol allows servers to req…
Stellar Protocol 26, called Yardstick, went live on mainnet May 6, 2026. The upgrade introduces Quorum Freeze for governed incident response, checked arithmet…
Stellar's governance model should evolve to make validator decisions more explicit and transparent, especially during network emergencies. The ecosystem needs…
Stellar's leader reflects on seven years building for institutional adoption rather than disruption, highlighting how early architectural choices around compl…
Certora released updates to its Prover tools across multiple blockchains: EVM now displays storage paths for unresolved calls, Solana Prover added rule splitt…
Certora outlines a practical threat modeling approach for Soroban smart contracts using the 4 A's framework (Assets, Actors, Assumptions, Attack Vectors) and …
Stellar's Soroban smart contract runtime features a composable authorization model that decouples authorization from fee payment, enabling sponsored transacti…
Stellar Development Foundation explores three critical dimensions of blockchain decentralization beyond node counts: geo-political resilience, security, and m…
Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund (FOBXX) hit $2 billion in assets and 5-year anniversary. CEO Denelle Dixon and head of innovation Sandy Kaul …
The SEC now distinguishes between wrapped and native tokenization. Native tokenization keeps assets directly onchain as the single source of truth, enabling r…
Stellar introduces CAP-77 Quorum Freeze, the first protocol-native onchain account freeze mechanism on a major L1 blockchain. Validators can reach consensus t…
Ascend and the Stellar Development Foundation announced a strategic partnership with $1 million in investment to build compliance-first credit infrastructure for regulated real-world assets on Stellar, combining Ascend's ERC-3643 standard with Stellar's institutional settlement capabilities.
LumosDAO distributed the latest round of $LUMOS incentives across Stellar and XRP Ledger networks, rewarding native liquidity providers, ecosystem LPs, and whale holders with over 8.6M LUMOS on Stellar and 15.6M on XRPL.
Trustless Work is an Escrow-as-a-Service platform for stablecoins that lets developers integrate secure, non-custodial, milestone-based escrow payments without building smart contracts from scratch. The guide covers product fundamentals, use cases, developer tools, and a recommended builder journey.
LumosCore launched a three-tier rewards framework distributing millions of $LUMOS tokens to liquidity providers, whale holders, and ecosystem LPs across Stellar and XRPL. Programs allocate 1M $LUMOS per cycle to core pairs, large holders, and 20 supported asset pools, with rewards distributed automatically every 15 days.
Franklin Templeton and Stellar mark five years of BENJI, the first U.S.-registered money market fund using a public blockchain as its system of record. Now re…
Merkl, a leading incentive platform, now supports non-EVM chains starting with Stellar. Protocols can launch reward campaigns on Stellar through Merkl Studio,…
