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LumosCore distributes $LUMOS incentives across Stellar and XRPL networks as of July 1. Native liquidity providers, ecosystem LP pools, and whale holders share rewards via proportional distribution based on each provider's pool share.

Normal Finance adds support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XLM to its non-custodial wallet, launching July 7. The multi-asset expansion uses Turnkey-powered biometric passkeys to replace traditional seed phrases, making self-custody accessible without sacrificing security. A savings product earning ~8% APY on USDC remains foundational.

YLDS, from Figure, is a yield-bearing digital asset backed by US Treasuries that bridges cash management and blockchain settlement. Structured as an SEC-registered security, it distributes real yield while maintaining stable value, addressing a key limitation of stablecoins. The article outlines YLDS positioning relative to regulatory frameworks like the CLARITY Act, and showcases use cases in treasury management, trading collateral, and payroll workflows on Stellar, Solana, and Ethereum.

WisdomTree Prime has updated its stablecoin funding flow to help users earn regulated yield on idle assets across blockchains including Stellar. The platform supports easy ACH funding and withdrawals, gas-free transfers across eight chains, and access to 15 fully regulated tokenized funds alongside digital assets like Bitcoin and gold.

tZERO's SEC-registered digital asset custodian now supports USDM1, a USD-denominated sovereign bond from the Marshall Islands backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasuries. The integration enables institutional participants to hold on-chain collateral within regulated framework, with 24/7 settlement and institutional-grade financing features.

Private credit minimums have collapsed from $250k-$1M to $25, driven not by risk changes but by smart contracts eliminating 200-350 basis points of intermediation friction. WisdomTree Prime and Metafyed exemplify this structural shift; the 8-14% yield spreads reveal why the window closes fast.

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.

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.

Securitize Fund Services and Upshift partner to bring institutional-grade reporting and fund administration tools to onchain vaults across Stellar, Solana, and other chains. The partnership delivers audit-ready performance data, investor-level allocation transparency, and full reconciliation of complex onchain activity, removing reporting barriers for institutional capital deployment.

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.

Normal Finance promoted Justin Benjamin to CEO after 4+ years building the synthetic asset protocol on Stellar. Founding CEO Joshua Blew transitions to Senior Advisor and Majority Shareholder. Benjamin led operations, sales, and global growth; Blew continues as technical and operational guide. The company signaled major announcements coming in weeks ahead.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.