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Protocol 27 (Zipper) activated on Stellar mainnet July 9, adding auth delegation and replay protection to Soroban smart accounts. UNDP and SDF extended their digital payments partnership through 2027, and M1X Global raised $8.5 million from Paradigm to scale USDM1, the Marshall Islands' Treasury-backed sovereign bond on Stellar.

Spiko became the first platform to cross $1 billion in tokenized assets on Stellar this week, as SushiSwap enabled cross-chain swaps for XLM and USDC across 40+ chains and the JavaScript SDK v16 shipped with Protocol 27 testnet support. Archax launched a perpetual T-Bill token on Stellar and Anchorage Digital announced institutional custody for Etherfuse's tokenized Mexican government debt.

Upshift is launching multi-chain vault infrastructure on Stellar, marking its first non-EVM integration. Initial vaults deploy into Blend, Aquarius, SushiSwap, and Templar with institutional-grade reporting via its Securitize partnership. The move opens a distribution channel to external capital already using Upshift across 30+ EVM chains.

Peridot Finance launched on Stellar mainnet on May 22, 2026, opening cross-chain lending and borrowing alongside a redesigned V2 app with fiat on/off-ramps. The launch caps a month of partnership wiring with DeFindex and Vibe Trading and follows a $91,750 SCF #38 Build award.

Circle CCTP went live on Stellar this week, enabling native 1:1 USDC bridging across 23 chains, while Spiko's Stellar AUM reached approximately $600 million and validators contained a $10 million oracle-manipulation attack on the Blend lending protocol.