Stellar Weekly Roundup: Week of Nov 6, 2026

Real-world assets on Stellar have passed $5 billion, and SDF CEO Denelle Dixon says that's "great...for now." Protocol 30, codenamed Bell, went live on testnet November 3, with the mainnet vote set for November 23. The Q4 Public Goods Award closed with 23 proposals approved, voted onchain through Tansu by Stellar Pilots and Public Good Contributors.

RWAs: $5B and Counting

SDF marked $5B in RWAs live on Stellar this week, with Dixon telling CoinDesk the network is "still looking at the scoreboard." She also wants a different scoreboard: her CoinDesk op-ed proposes five measures that track what tokenized assets actually do, not just how much is issued.

A RWA Foundation breakdown using rwa.xyz's "distributed" metric, which counts differently from SDF's figure, puts Stellar at $4.4B across 25,083 holders and 84 tokenized products. Spiko leads issuance at $2.0B, followed by Benji Investments at $1.1B and Ondo at $538.6M. One of the largest single assets is Realiz's VuMe Bond 2030, a $500M Luxembourg-domiciled corporate credit token issued on Soroban for non-US professional investors, which drew attention this week as a sign of the deal sizes Stellar is attracting. Token Terminal data shows tokenized U.S. T-bills on Stellar grew $546.9M in the seven days to November 6, the largest increase of any chain.

SODAX now offers 46 tokenized stocks across four networks, Stellar among them, after whitelisting 22 more, including Netflix, Costco and Moderna. It also added Circle's EURC on Stellar alongside USDC.

Protocol 30 Bell and Developer Tools

Bell adds muxed contract addresses, post-quantum signature verification and millisecond ledger time. Tyler van der Hoeven published plain-language explainers on post-quantum signatures for smart accounts and muxed smart addresses. GitHub discussion on CAP-90, which defines custom signature payloads for account contracts, is active ahead of the vote.

StellarExpert launched API subscriptions. They give developers indexed access to 11 years of Stellar ledger history, contract state, events and analytics. Testnet endpoints are free, and AI agents can pay per request over x402 with no account or key. The same team released a WASM Stack Estimator, which grew out of an XOXNO request to cut memory use in Reflector's contracts. Soroban contracts reserve 1 MiB of stack by default but rarely use more than 1 KiB. Trimming that lowers fees and allows deeper call chains.

AHA Labs reported that 137 projects use at least one of its open-source developer tools, each one traceable to a public repo or onchain activity.

SDF has started posting Meridian 2026 talks on YouTube. One of the first up introduces Gesserit, an autonomous AI security harness that runs 300 agents in parallel against Stellar Core, Horizon, RPC and the SDKs. SDF says it has spent over a trillion tokens and found more than 40 Stellar Core vulnerabilities, with 100+ critical findings across the stack.

DeFi

Lendwise went live on Stellar mainnet on November 3. It shows standardized APYs across 900+ lending markets, putting Blend alongside Aave, Morpho and Compound with rates calculated the same way. Blend v2.1 is already integrated, and XOXNO's lending protocol is next. The SCF-funded team also pitched at this month's Demo Day.

XOXNO became the first aggregator with full Curve support on Stellar, routing through Curve pools and handling LP tokens end to end. Next up is Curve LP positions as collateral. XOXNO is also now live on Seidar, which already lists Zenex perps from Zenith Protocols.

Lunar Finance added Stellar on November 4. Users can bridge assets from EVM networks and Solana and swap tokens on Stellar.

Koul, fresh off an SCF Instaward, demoed at the November 5 Stellar Developers Meeting. Traders write rules in plain language, and Koul compiles them into Soroban contracts that run from passkey-scoped wallets, so custody stays with the trader. Its testnet trading competition passed 110 participants.

Payments and Wallets

Squid said it powers MetaMask's new Stellar integration under the hood. Airtm CEO Ruben Galindo and Kim Mescal-Julien of Mastercard-owned BVNK went deeper on their Meridian partnership on the Deep Dive Podcast. They described stablecoin payouts to 190 markets, replacing three days of correspondent banking with five-second settlement on Stellar.

Builders and Community

SCF's November Demo Day featured six live mainnet projects:

• Safu Protocol, a staking pool that automatically pays back hacked wallets.
• Ayra, bringing the economy of Colombia's Providencia island onchain.
• Blink, merchant payment links that settle on Stellar.
• Vaquita, gamified savings.
• Fundable, payouts and mass payments.
• Lendwise.

SDF said SCF received 2,100+ interest forms this year and awarded 18.1M XLM.

HackMeridian by the numbers: 350+ builders, 210 teams and 165 projects submitted. 79% of teams delivered in 48 hours.

SDF published the first Stellar Ambassador Program recap, covering September and October across 13 countries. Highlights:

• Stellar Philippines approved $95K in Instawards for 19 projects.
• Türkiye's Stellar Pro Hackathon drew 153 participants and 85 projects.
• Bolivia's Stellar Elite graduated 46 builders.
• Mexico's University Route reached 666 students.
• Brazil chapter referrals PigFi, Haven and BwB won $343.1K in SCF #45 Build Awards.

The BAF Network's Argentina chapter drew 120+ builders to an ideathon in Corrientes, where Dosel, Pucará and Órbita won the Stellar track. Ambassador chapter teams in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru can apply for up to $5,000 in XLM through Instawards until November 7. Stellar India hosted a Stellar House in Mumbai during Devcon week.

Rise In posted Meridian interviews with SDF's Kaan Kaçar on agentic payments, MPP, x402 and Raven, and with Gemma Dobbs on what gets SCF teams funded.

Lightning Round

• Trezor Suite now lets users receive Soroban tokens, view their transactions and add custom SEP-41 tokens. trezor.io
• A community post on GitHub models XLM supply and sinks and makes concrete proposals, responding to SDF's Meridian call to revisit XLM tokenomics. github.com
• A new SEP discussion proposes standard storage for Soroban token name, symbol and decimals. github.com
• XOXNO entered final security audits for its Stellar lending protocol, targeting a November mainnet launch. x.com
• Velo and Noir are running an agentic payments hackathon for Filipino builders with a $10K prize pool; the top 10 pitch live November 8. x.com
• Stallion's EmpowerHER, a women-only x402 hackathon on Stellar with a $1,500 prize pool, closes registration November 8. stallion.so
• Bolivia's National Startups Hackathon runs November 9-22 with $10,000 in prizes and a live final in Santa Cruz on November 27. x.com
• Código Cordillera, a 48-hour online hackathon for Colombian builders on payments and remittances, runs November 6-8. thebafnetwork.com
• Soroban Scan moved to a new domain; old links redirect. sorobanscan.com
• LumosCore started a new LP rewards cycle, with 2M LUMOS going to 20 Stellar and XRPL pools every 15 days. lumoscore.com

Upcoming Events

• November 6 Coffee Break: tu proyecto rumbo al Demo Day | Bogotá, Colombia
• November 6 Stellar Town Hall | Discord
• November 6 Intro al Pura Vida Bootcamp | Virtual
• November 6 National Startups Hackathon by Stellar | Tarija, Bolivia
• November 9 Kick off National Startups Hackathon 2026 | Bolivia
• November 10-24 Código 402: Agentes que pagan | Virtual
• November 12 Stellar Academy: Soroban en práctica | Temuco, Chile
• November 12 Boundless Build Day | Uyo, Nigeria
• November 12 Stellar Developers Meeting | Discord
• November 18 IA e blockchain: como essas tecnologias estão criando novos negócios | São Paulo
• November 19 Stellar Academy: Producto de verdad | Temuco, Chile

What to Watch

• November 23: the Protocol 30 "Bell" mainnet vote. Watch validator signaling and how CAP-90 is resolved.
• EURCV goes permissionless: SG Forge said at Meridian it would remove the Soroban contract wrapper on its euro stablecoin, making EURCV a native permissionless asset on Stellar and opening it to DeFi (Lightning Talks session in the Meridian 2026 playlist).
• XOXNO lending launch: final audits are underway, with a November target. Curve LP collateral is next on its list.
• Pura Vida Bootcamp: five weeks of building on Stellar in Costa Rica with Oppia Labs and BAF, running through December 11.
• SCF in 2027: SDF's Gemma Dobbs said new builder support plans for 2027 are coming, to be shared first on the Stellar Dev Discord.