DeFi, payments, tokenization, Soroban, governance, and project launches — curated daily from publications, project blogs, and community channels across the Stellar blockchain ecosystem.
The Stellar Development Foundation released its Q1 2024 quarterly report highlighting major ecosystem achievements including the launch of smart contracts on Stellar, $3.2M in Stellar Community Fund awards, the introduction of the Soroban Audit Bank for security, and significant growth metrics including 8M+ network accounts and $1.6B in real world asset payment volume.
Franklin Templeton enabled peer-to-peer transfers for its BENJI tokenized money market fund on Stellar and Polygon, allowing direct investor-to-investor token transfers without intermediaries. The $380 million fund now supports secondary market trading and DeFi collateral use cases.
Huma Finance and Arf merge to create a combined liquidity platform for cross-border payments. The integrated platform leverages real world asset tokenization and USDC to reduce capital requirements for financial institutions, targeting $3 billion on-chain liquidity by year-end.
Tomer Weller, VP of Product at Stellar, discusses the blockchain's decade-long evolution, Soroban smart contracts, and real-world use cases including Argentina's adoption and Franklin Templeton's tokenized securities.
WisdomTree, a $100B+ asset manager, launched WisdomTree Prime, a unified financial platform built on Stellar that enables customers to seamlessly manage digital assets, traditional investments, and fiat currencies in one application. The platform leverages Stellar's native asset controls and tokenization capabilities to offer 13 digital funds and a gold token.
Arf, an RWA-backed working capital platform on Stellar, surpassed $1 billion in onchain liquidity volume, supporting global payments institutions. The milestone addresses a $4 trillion liquidity gap in cross-border transactions, with Arf's transparency protocol ensuring on-chain risk visibility for lenders.
This article explains asset tokenization on Stellar, covering what it is, who can tokenize assets, key benefits like operational efficiency and transparency, and the technical process for creating digital representations of real-world assets on the network.
This article explores the history and advantages of asset tokenization on the Stellar network, highlighting how institutions like Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree, and the Bank for International Settlements leverage Stellar's native asset control features for issuing securities, money market funds, and bonds with operational efficiency, transparency, and sustainability benefits.
Cheesecake Labs has released an updated Stellar Asset Sandbox with new features including role-based access control, expanded token management, custodial solutions, and treasury management capabilities. The no-code platform enables institutions to test asset tokenization on Stellar's testnet before deploying real assets.
Owny is a white-label platform that leverages Stellar blockchain and AI to streamline private equity fund management, capital raising, and investor relations. The platform tokenizes assets on Stellar, enabling fast, low-cost cross-border payments and simplified compliance for alternative asset marketplaces.
Franklin Templeton's $300M tokenized money market fund (FOBXX), primarily issued on Stellar, is expanding to multiple blockchains including Polygon, Avalanche, Aptos, and Arbitrum. The fund has seen limited adoption on Polygon with only $2M in balance so far.
Franklin Templeton's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, which uses Stellar blockchain for record-keeping, now has over $290 million in assets under management. The firm is exploring blockchain's potential to transform capital markets through tokenization and smart contracts.
The Stellar Newsletter highlights Q1 achievements including Franklin Templeton's OnChain Fund surpassing $270M AUM on Stellar blockchain, SDF's strategic progress, and new board member Asiff Hirji. It covers partnerships like Arf, Cebuana Lhuillier, and blockchain remittances, plus Soroban smart contracts developments and community spotlights. Upcoming Meridian 2023 in Madrid is announced.
Franklin Templeton's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, built on Stellar, has surpassed $270 million in assets under management. It is the first U.S. registered fund to use a public blockchain for recording transactions and shareholdings.
Franklin Templeton's Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use Stellar blockchain for transactions and share ownership, surpassed $270 million AUM. The fund is accessible via the Benji Investments app and represents a major institutional adoption of blockchain technology in traditional finance.
Franklin Templeton's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, built on Stellar, became the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to process transactions and record sha…
Franklin Templeton's Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to process transactions and record share ownership on …
WisdomTree gained SEC approval for nine blockchain-enabled funds that maintain secondary ownership records on Stellar and Ethereum blockchains. The funds, which invest in US Treasurys, equities, and other traditional assets, will launch on WisdomTree Prime mobile app next quarter.
The Blue Marble, a Stellar-based NFT marketplace, enables carbon removal investments through blockchain technology. Founded by Task.io creators, it helps brands and investors fund environmental projects like biochar production while supporting smallholder farmers in developing countries with transparent, low-cost transactions.
Task.io, a mobile app built on Stellar, partners with Biochar Life to incentivize smallholder farmers in developing countries to produce biochar instead of burning agricultural waste. For each metric ton of carbon sequestered, one STS token is minted on Stellar and sold to carbon offset buyers, with proceeds funding farmer communities.
Stellar Protocol 17 introduced asset clawback functionality, enabling authorized entities to recover digital securities for regulatory compliance, fraud prevention, and lost key recovery. Co-authored by Securrency, this feature addresses institutional adoption concerns and regulatory requirements for custodying digital assets.
Stellar Protocol 17 introduces asset clawback, enabling regulated financial instruments like bonds and equities to comply with securities regulations requiring issuer revocation abilities. Validators will vote on the upgrade June 1, 2021.
Two Stellar Community Fund finalists, Mojoflower and Blocknify, showcase innovative use cases beyond payments: Mojoflower tokenizes share ownership for Icelandic regulators, while Blocknify uses Stellar as an immutable notary for e-signatures and document verification.
Stellar community will vote on Protocol 13, a network upgrade enabling exchanges and asset issuers to enforce fine-grained control over regulated asset trading, including preventing unauthorized purchases while preserving existing orders and supporting security token compliance.
Franklin Templeton filed with the SEC to launch a blockchain-based mutual fund for government securities, recording fund share ownership on the Stellar blockchain to improve transparency and reduce settlement times while keeping investor mechanics hidden.
Franklin Templeton filed an SEC prospectus for a tokenized government money market fund on Stellar, investing 99.5% in government securities and cash. The $700B asset manager will launch a mobile app for purchasing and redeeming shares as native digital assets on the Stellar blockchain.
Stellar's 2018 roadmap focuses on two main goals: launching SDEX, a world-class decentralized exchange front-end for on-chain token trading, and integrating the Lightning Network to improve scalability and privacy. The foundation also plans ecosystem improvements including better documentation and developer tools.
