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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.

State Street and Galaxy Asset Management launched SWEEP, a tokenized cash-management fund for institutional investors on Solana, with expansion planned to Ethereum and Stellar. The fund generates yield on stablecoins with continuous blockchain operations.

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 representing over $650 million in value, BENJI pioneered tokenized funds with peer-to-peer transferability and intraday yield, spawning a multi-billion-dollar tokenization market.

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.

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.

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.

Stellar Development Foundation makes strategic investment in Normal, an on-chain investing protocol built on Stellar using Soroban smart contracts. Normal launched in January 2026 and has been generating revenue while expanding its user base with sophisticated portfolio and synthetic asset tools.

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.

Untangled Loop enables delta-neutral vault strategies on Stellar by combining lending (Blend) and spot trading (Aquarius) to capture basis spreads between staking rewards and borrowing costs, with empirical analysis showing maximum vault capacity of ~500,000 XLM and execution limits of 50,000/day based on liquidity constraints.

LumosCore launches Private Mode, allowing users to mask their identity while trading across Stellar, XRPL, and other supported networks. The feature lets traders toggle privacy on or off instantly, hiding usernames from public feeds and reducing exposure to wallet watching and social engineering.

OctoVault, a multi-chain vault management platform by Untangled, enables users to manage DeFi positions across Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, and other chains from a single interface with AI-driven automation and institutional security. Launching Q3 2026, it promises 10x faster operations and 5x lower gas costs.

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.

This article compares Proof-of-Stake consensus models with Stellar's Consensus Protocol (SCP), arguing that PoS networks create structural incentives for MEV extraction and validator misconduct, while Stellar's explicit trust model and revocable authority provide better protection for regulated asset issuers.

Spiko launched tokenized funds on Stellar in October 2025, detailing how they adapted their infrastructure to Soroban's unique constraints: TTL-based storage, sequence number limitations, and RPC data retention. They implemented channel accounts and fee bump transactions to achieve high throughput while maintaining clean authorization.

Normal Finance launches on Stellar, introducing index funds and synthetic assets to the ecosystem. This adds investment primitives to Stellar's payments and remittance infrastructure, enabling users to trade diversified crypto markets and build portfolios onchain without leaving the network.

Normal Finance launched last week and is committing to biweekly product updates. The first update (v1.6.1) includes new analytics cards, portfolio page, improved authentication, Coinbase offramp support, and fixes to transaction handling and UX.

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).

Normal Finance, a synthetic asset protocol built on Stellar, has launched on mainnet. It enables users to gain long or short exposure to major crypto assets (BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA, XRP) directly from their Stellar wallet without bridging or leaving the network.

Seven apps have integrated DeFindex yield infrastructure on Stellar, enabling users to earn 3-10% APY on stablecoins through a single, unified vault system. Each app targets different user needs—from mobile-first African markets to multi-chain portfolio management—while leveraging Stellar's low transaction costs and fast settlement.

This article explores how Franklin Templeton leveraged Stellar's open infrastructure to launch the first registered money market fund on a blockchain in 2021, demonstrating the "permissionless premium"—the ability to experiment, learn, and build without approval. The piece illustrates how open systems enable unexpected innovations, like Securrency's clawback feature that became critical for regulatory compliance, and create unpredictable adoption pathways that centralized platforms cannot.

Stellar hosts over $533 million in real-world assets excluding stablecoins, up 25% year-over-year, with Franklin Templeton's BENJI money market fund leading at $496 million. The network now provides access to $3 billion in total RWAs including tokenized treasuries, equities, bonds, and real estate from issuers like Ondo, Mercado Bitcoin, and Centrifuge.

WisdomTree launched a physically backed Stellar Lumens ETP with a 0.50% fee on SIX and Euronext, with Xetra listing planned for Oct. 15. The product provides institutional-grade exposure to XLM's spot price across European exchanges.

RedSwan has partnered with Stellar to tokenize $100M in commercial real estate on the XLM network, enabling fractional ownership of institutional-grade multifamily and hospitality properties with lower investment minimums and enhanced liquidity.

RedSwan Digital Real Estate, a FINRA-regulated marketplace, has tokenized $100 million in commercial real estate assets on the Stellar blockchain, enabling fractional ownership and 24/7 secondary market liquidity for institutional-grade properties.

AirGap has integrated full Stellar support into its air-gapped cold wallet solution, enabling users to send, receive, and manage XLM and Stellar tokens while keeping private keys completely offline. The integration includes multi-signature account support, advanced security features like dice roll entropy and social recovery, and is being celebrated with a 30% discount promotion.

GearUp, a Stellar-based marketplace for creative professionals, has attracted over 500 signups and 140+ equipment listings in less than three months on mainnet. The platform enables creators to rent gear, purchase equipment, access courses, and book studio spaces in a unified ecosystem.

Valour launched four new SEK-denominated ETPs on Sweden's Spotlight Stock Market for Mantra (OM), Tron (TRX), Stellar (XLM), and Tether Gold (XAUt), expanding its Nordic presence and moving toward its goal of 100 ETPs by end of 2025.