Stellar Weekly Roundup: Week of Oct 2, 2026

PwC Germany reduced EOS Group's securitization payout cycle from 30 days to 1 day using Stellar smart contracts settling in AllUnity's MiCA-regulated euro stablecoin. Ultra Token, from Ultra Stellar (the team behind LOBSTR), launched 1:1 bridged ETH, BTC, SOL, and XRP on Stellar via Axelar. Blend V2.1 went live on mainnet with a restored backstop, and Zenex became Stellar's first on-chain perpetual futures exchange. SCF Pilots: i3 Awards voting closes tonight.

Institutional Settlement Goes Live

PwC Germany's announcement with EOS Group brings Stellar into securitization infrastructure. Smart contracts run the payout waterfall, settlement occurs near-instantly in AllUnity's MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, and technical implementation was handled by TokenForge.

DFNS added Circle CCTP support on Stellar, enabling institutions to move native USDC across Stellar, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Polygon, and Arc in one transaction with no wrapped tokens or third-party bridges.

Etherfuse opened a waitlist for its Kazakhstan market: MEKKAM tokenized treasury bills and KAZe, a tenge token redeemable 1:1 and backed by MEKKAM, both live on Stellar at launch. It adds Central Asian sovereign debt to Etherfuse's Stablebonds lineup alongside its Mexican and Latin American markets.

DeFi: Backstops, Perps, and Bridged Assets

Blend V2.1 is live on mainnet, built with help from Zenith Protocols. The release forks Blend V2 with an updated Comet V1.1 AMM as the backstop token, bringing back a functional backstop. Script3 noted that V2.1 won't earn emissions unless an emissions migration happens.

Zenith Protocols' Zenex perpetual futures exchange is also live on Stellar mainnet, the first on-chain perps venue on the network. Its inaugural trading competition, rewarding highest PnL, launched alongside the mainnet go-live.

Ultra Token launched on Stellar with 1:1 bridged ETH, BTC, SOL, and XRP, secured by Soroban and Axelar and trading on Aquarius. Users can hold bridged assets directly or earn yield on them and on stablecoins, with non-custodial redemption available at any time.

Peridot Finance's Stellar lending markets now accept deposits directly from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon, and Avalanche via SODAX, removing the need to bridge before depositing. At the October SCF Demo Day, three SCF-funded teams presented projects live on mainnet: XOXNO's lending protocol (already at $180,000 TVL and over $30,000 in volume using a hub-and-spoke liquidity model), Seevcash for cross-border payments, and Arka Fund for non-custodial asset management with DAO governance on Soroban.

Protocol: Post-Quantum Signatures and Soroban Limits

CAP-87 moved to Accepted status, adding ML-DSA post-quantum signature verification to Soroban. The proposal introduces three verification functions (ML-DSA-44, 65, and 87), giving smart wallets a path to quantum-resistant signatures before demand materializes. ML-DSA was selected for its enterprise traction across Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare, and for its compact signature sizes compared to hash-based alternatives.

A new discussion opened for SLP-7, which proposes increasing some ledger-wide Soroban limits and cutting many resource fees by roughly half.

This week's developer meeting was a full AMA on USDT0 (live on Stellar since September) and the LayerZero OFT integration, covering storage optimization, multisig support, and the Stellar-specific design decisions behind the cross-chain infrastructure.

Developer Tools

LumosCore's MCP server lets AI agents query live Stellar market data, wallet balances, and transaction routes via 14 tools. All write operations require explicit user wallet approval; the server holds no credentials or API keys.

Certora published a Soroban-specific audit guide covering authorization models, TTL-based storage expiry, cross-contract calls, and asset handling, the areas where EVM-oriented audit habits don't carry over.

Incentive platform Fuul shipped Stellar DeFi support in its September update, allowing projects to run on-chain reward programs for Blend lenders, Aquarius liquidity providers, and token holders. A two-day Istanbul residency brought 31 Stellar builders face-to-face with SDF for direct technical feedback.

Ambassador Activity

Stellar Chile wrapped its September InstaAwards with four project demos (part 1, part 2): ArcusX (agentic payments and escrow for AI), Kuyfi (a terminal app for auditing Soroban contracts), V.A.C.A. (offline emergency and direct-donation app), and Trustleaf (patient-owned medical records on Soroban).

Starmaker LATAM's Blockchain Builders 101 program surpassed 250 participants across Mexico and Colombia within two weeks of launch. A Stellar Ideathon ran at Costa Rica's University of Science and Technology on October 7. Stellar Türkiye's Lounge Day on September 20 brought together 14 institutions, including İş Bankası, TEB, and ING Hubs Türkiye, with teams building on Stellar. Stellar Philippines' Agentmaxxin runs October 5-30: four weeks for builders to push agents further with wallets, payments, on-chain actions, and x402.

Lightning Round

• i3 Awards voting closes tonight, October 9, and is open to SCF Pilots. Nominees: Impact (Abroad, Public Node, Stellar Passport, Stellar Security Portal), Innovation (Inference, Stellarchain, Tansu, Trustless Work), Interoperability (Blux, Reflector, Rozo, Seevcash).
• Tansu v3 shipped on mainnet.
• Tellus Cooperative and StarMaker LATAM announced Meridian scholarships for LatAm builders heading to Lisbon.
• Giveth's Stellar QF Round closed with over $7,000 in donations for projects creating new Stellar ecosystem events in November.
• Trezor Suite published updated guidance for managing XLM and Stellar tokens, covering Soroban contract-type token activation and destination tag handling.
• XOXNO published full lending protocol documentation covering supply and borrow mechanics, account structures, and a developer integration quickstart.
• Argentina Builder Challenge concluded with 44 developers building 20 projects across Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
• Zebec x Stellar Space: Zebec's CEO and SDF President José Fernández da Ponte discussed enterprise adoption moving from pilots to production payroll, remittances, and treasury, with $11 billion in stablecoin volume already on the network.
• Stellar 101 builder stream: SDF walked builders through protocol fundamentals, tooling, and SCF funding pathways as HackMeridian prep.

Upcoming Events

• October 10: GIRA UFidélitas Session 1: Education and Activation, San José, Costa Rica
• October 10: Paris Builder HQ: Founder Dinner powered by Stellar, Paris
• October 10: Web3 Sessions: Stellar en UTEC, Lima, Peru
• October 13: Stellar Security Office Hours Session 5, free 1:1 Soroban security sessions, online
• October 13: Legal 101 for Stablecoin Payment Providers, Washington DC and online
• October 15: Stellar Developers Meeting, YouTube
• October 16: Stellar Town Hall, Discord
• October 16: Café Blockchain: Construye con IA sobre Stellar, Lima, Peru
• October 17: Abeokuta Stellar Event: Building the Future of Payments, Ogun State, Nigeria
• October 17: Porto Builder HQ: Founder Dinner powered by Stellar, Porto
• October 17: GIRA UFidélitas Session 2: Building, Mentoring and Demo Day, San José, Costa Rica
• October 19: Stable Open: Las Vegas Edition, Las Vegas
• October 20: Onchain Finance Happy Hour, Las Vegas
• October 25-26: HackMeridian, Lisbon
• October 28-29: Meridian 2026, Lisbon

What to Watch

• SLP-7: Community discussion on GitHub covers raising some ledger-wide Soroban limits and cutting many resource fees roughly in half.
• Ultra Token liquidity: The protocol launched October 9; depth on Aquarius and redemption mechanics are early signals of uptake.
• Meridian 2026: Under three weeks out (October 28-29, Lisbon); HackMeridian (October 25-26, up to $30K in XLM across two tracks) runs the weekend before.
• Blend V2.1 emissions: V2.1 won't earn emissions unless an emissions migration happens; watch Script3's channels for next steps.