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HackerNoon's Company of the Week spotlight on SODAX: a cross-network execution and liquidity platform spanning 20+ blockchains including Stellar. The company manages 11,000+ trading routes and $2B in addressable liquidity, helping developers add swaps and lending without building cross-chain infrastructure themselves.

SODAX whitelisted 13 Robinhood tokenized stock assets across 4 networks: Robinhood Chain, Sonic, Stellar, and Hedera. Developers can now integrate these assets (AAPL, GME, TSLA, and others) into their products with SODAX-coordinated cross-network liquidity.

Stellar's Q3 2026 on-chain RWA market crossed $4 billion, growing four times faster than the broader tokenization market. A technical overview from Gami Labs examines why Stellar's architecture—deterministic finality, protocol-level asset controls, near-zero fees, Soroban smart contracts—has positioned it as the institutional venue for regulated real-world assets.

XOXNO selected RedStone Finance to provide price feeds for its Stellar lending protocol, covering tokenized assets, government bonds, stablecoins, and crypto. The integration achieved day-one support for USDT0's mainnet launch and was optimized for Stellar's constraints: XOXNO reads directly from RedStone's contract storage to reduce cross-contract calls, allowing complex strategies within per-transaction CPU and memory limits.

Merkl, the onchain distribution infrastructure used by Circle and Coinbase, powered major summer launches: Robinhood Earn (rate management), Coinbase Tokenized Stocks (cashback on Base), and 1inch Aqua (volume rewards). Merkl also expanded to three new chains—Pharos, Kaia, and Robinhood Chain—and made its Stellar debut with Templar and Upshift vaults live.

XOXNO launches a new lending primitive for Stellar DeFi. Instead of isolated liquidity pools, it uses shared core liquidity that new assets tap into. Integrates with Aquarius AMMs and USDT0 for cross-chain dollar liquidity.

SODA token is now tradeable on XLM Domains, a decentralized identity and DeFi platform on Stellar. The integration enables SODA holders to trade, manage positions, and access SODAX execution across 20+ networks from Stellar's native payment address system.

SODAX integrates with XLM Domains to let MetaMask users control a Stellar smart wallet and trade domains, NFTs, and tokens without setting up a new wallet. The integration includes sponsored account activation, solving a key cross-network funding problem that benefits all future Stellar integrators.

Normal is launching an iOS app to bring cryptocurrency to everyday users. The Stellar fintech platform offers integrated savings, investing, swapping, and diversification services backed by major ecosystem partners including Blend, DeFindex, Stripe, MoneyGram, and SDF.

Firelight Protocol raised $8 million to provide DeFi exploit protection for fintechs moving yield products on-chain. The protocol expands backing collateral from XRP to Bitcoin and Stellar's XLM, with a 10-day claims settlement model designed for institutional adoption.

On August 25, an attacker exploited a Comet smart contract bug that failed to verify token inputs in swap functions, extracting 717,518 USDC from the BLND-USDC liquidity pool. Community white hats quickly recovered 190k USDC and 23M BLND before copycat attacks. Script3 is leading recovery and remediation efforts; Blend protocol lending continues but backstop deposits are at risk due to the non-upgradeable LP token.

Stellar InstAwards program funds 10 Turkish builders with $50k total. Projects span remittance infrastructure, P2P trading, privacy solutions, developer tools, DeFi vaults, micropayments, and AI-assisted workflows, demonstrating diverse builder ecosystem on Stellar and Soroban.

SODAX joins Circle's alliance, deepening USDC and settlement infrastructure integration across 20+ blockchain networks. The partnership positions the cross-network execution system at the center of regulated stablecoin settlement conversations and joint product development.

Sentora expands vault offerings on Stellar with new stablecoin vaults (PYUSD and USD), initially with predefined terms and planned evolution toward strategy-based offerings.

XOXNO's team hit Soroban memory limits while scaling complex DeFi strategies. Their debugging journey identified that cross-contract calls were consuming full 1 MB of linear memory per call—a transient cost never credited back. A protocol-level fix refunding VM memory at teardown is coming in an upgrade; meanwhile, Reflector's compile flag optimization provides immediate relief, unlocking more complex on-chain flows for the ecosystem.

RedStone provides USDY with a price feed and SEP-40 contract, making it collateral-eligible on Stellar's lending protocols. The yield-bearing stablecoin, backed by U.S. Treasuries, joins Stellar's growing RWA ecosystem—now $2.96B in tokenized assets, including sovereign debt and Bitcoin products.

Türkiye's Stellar ecosystem shipped 13 projects after winning InstAward grants in July: walletless payment solutions (Lumenia, PayTag), DeFi infrastructure (Asteria, Halka, Verdict), verification tools (Sorofy), and identity systems (A-Identity). Across Soroban smart contracts, each addresses a specific ecosystem gap.

SocketFi Smart Accounts v2 launches with multi-wallet onboarding (passkeys, Stellar Wallet Kit, EVM wallets), embedded USDC bridge via Circle CCTP, and DeFi integrations (Aquarius, Blend). New automation features enable portfolio rebalancing, dollar-cost averaging, and scheduled disbursements. EVM users can now control Stellar smart accounts without creating a traditional Stellar keypair.

K2 launches on Stellar with lending infrastructure built for regulated assets and institutions. Offers pooled markets for broad liquidity, isolated markets for new assets, and new gated markets for whitelisted institutional participants. Audited by Halborn, Watchpug, Code4rena; monitored by Hypernative for threats.

A step-by-step guide to depositing assets into Sentora's vaults on the Stellar DeFi Hub. Covers wallet connection, vault selection, deposit confirmation, and position tracking for XLM, USDC, and PYUSD, with details on reward structures and early withdrawal consequences.

SDF publishes security standards for Stellar DeFi protocols, defining audit, disclosure, risk management, and governance requirements as the ecosystem scales from experimental to production. The standards include audits before user funds, bug bounties, capital buffers, and emergency pause controls, reflecting practices mature DeFi teams already use elsewhere, adapted for Stellar.

Sentora launches institutional-grade vaults on Stellar, accessible via Stellar DeFi Hub. The platform brings curated vault infrastructure and capital management tools for institutions, fintechs, and allocators, supporting up to $2B in capital across DeFi and tokenized assets.