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BVNK ($39B stablecoin platform) integrated Stellar and SCF #45 distributed $4.04M to 40 projects this week. The Istanbul Pro Hackathon wrapped with 153 builders, while OpenZeppelin, LOBSTR, Normal Finance, and Pods Finance's Pix-to-Stellar corridor advanced developer and payments infrastructure across the ecosystem.

Adapter (Protocol 28) went live on Stellar Mainnet on September 16, setting a new sustained-throughput record of 211+ TPS. U.S. Bank completed its first public cross-border payment pilot on Stellar using USBDC, while Pyth Network and LI.FI launched on mainnet and OpenZeppelin shipped its RWA Wizard on Stellar testnet.

Stellar's on-chain RWA market cap crossed $3 billion as Matrixdock's XAUm tokenized gold launched with an SDF treasury allocation. AllUnity and Zebec launched a MiCAR-compliant euro stablecoin benefits pilot, and SDF joined the Legal Context Protocol as a founding contributor for AI agent governance.

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.