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Normal Finance launches a non-custodial Stellar wallet with fiat on/off-ramps via Coinbase, Stripe, and MoneyGram, plus a coming high-yield savings account (7%+ APY) powered by DeFindex and Blend Capital. Backed by Stellar Development Foundation and Tim Draper at $4M valuation.

Stellar Development Foundation and CV Labs launched a 12-week accelerator program supporting 10 early-stage startups building payments infrastructure, tokenized real-world assets, and DeFi applications across EMEA. Selected teams receive up to $150,000 in XLM funding, technical support, and investor access, with the program running August-October 2026.

SCF #42 awarded $2.46M in XLM to 27 projects across three tracks: Open Track (novel use cases), Integration Track (ecosystem tools), and RFP Track (developer tooling). The round achieved 100% alignment between community voting and delegate panel decisions, with 106 voters participating in Neural Quorum Governance.

LumosCore launches AMMs on Stellar and XRPL, enabling instant liquidity pool creation for any asset pair without listing requirements. The feature is now live alongside the previously shipped Launchpad and Cross-Chain Bridge.

Soundness deployed the only post-quantum signature migration strategy that scores YES on all four properties in Coinbase's Independent Advisory Board report. The approach uses zero-knowledge proofs of seed knowledge to enable quantum-safe wallets without address changes, asset migration, or hard forks.

Metafyed, backed by the Stellar Development Foundation, argues that most stablecoin holders miss yield opportunities by keeping capital idle. The platform tokenizes private credit in Asia, enabling USDC holders to earn 8-15% returns on regulated, asset-backed instruments without institutional minimums.

Tether launches self-custodial wallet supporting USDT, USAT, and XAUT across multiple blockchains. MoneyGram expands stablecoin balance service to El Salvador via Stellar partnership. Rain and Lydian debut Lydian Card enabling 300+ digital assets at 150M merchants.

Agnostic launches its Stellar Analytics platform, offering developers and analysts comprehensive on-chain data access through SQL queries, open datasets in Apache Iceberg format, and AI-powered visualization tools.

Franklin Templeton's BENJI, the first U.S.-registered money market fund on a public blockchain, has grown to $654M AUM on Stellar five years after launch. The fund leverages Stellar's native issuer controls for SEC compliance, enabling continuous yield accrual, low fees, and peer-to-peer share transfers.

Decaf launches WhatsApp-based money transfers in Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. Users send USDC to a WhatsApp number; recipients receive funds instantly without app downloads or crypto knowledge and can immediately withdraw to bank accounts, access cash via MoneyGram, or use virtual cards.

Space and Time, a Layer 1 blockchain for verifiable financial data, has moved from mainnet launch in May 2025 through major integrations with Microsoft Fabric, Chainlink, and Stellar. The project's Proof of SQL coprocessor enables sub-second ZK-proven queries across millions of rows, now securing everything from tokenized assets to 30,000 Indonesian students' academic credentials.

LUMOS incentives distributed across Stellar and XRP Ledger networks. Native liquidity providers, ecosystem LPs, and whale holders received rewards totaling millions of LUMOS tokens across both chains.