Suffered $10.97M oracle manipulation exploit on Blend Capital V2 (Blend protocol) on February 22, 2026, by pumping illiquid collateral token USTRY 100x on the Stellar DEX.

DeFi protocol YieldBlox on Stellar suffers a $10M exploit through price oracle manipulation of low-liquidity USTRY asset, enabling attacker to overborrow XLM and USDC before validators freeze most funds.

Partners with Shopify for integration or collaboration.

Partners with BlackRock for integration or collaboration.

Partners with SWIFT for integration or collaboration.

Partners with PayPal for integration or collaboration.

Partners with Google Cloud for integration or collaboration.

Partners with DTCC for integration or collaboration.

Partners with United Nations for integration or collaboration.

Partners with WisdomTree for integration or collaboration.

Joins Stable Summit IV as a Platinum Sponsor, with CPO Tomer Weller speaking on privacy-preserving stablecoin payments in Cannes on March 27-28, 2026.

Concluded red packet airdrop campaign with Solv Protocol, distributing $2,026 XLM to Stellar addresses on 2026-02-23.

Participated in Multichain Day event with a Stellar representative on February 16, 2026.

Chainalysis upgraded its support to automatically track Stellar tokens, enabling full investigation and compliance workflows.

Chief Business Officer projects tokenization of US treasuries on Stellar to grow from $7.4 billion to over $20 billion during 2026.

CME Group launched XLM, ADA, and LINK futures and micro futures for trading on February 9, 2026.

Mainnet deployment of USST on Stellar is planned.

Added as collateral option on HTX Collateral Swap, allowing users to borrow USDT, BTC, and other cryptocurrencies against XLM holdings.

Upgraded X-Ray Protocol on January 22, 2026, adding native BN254 and Poseidon for ZK applications, implemented a Poseidon precompile for efficient hash verification, and open-sourced Stellar Private Payments.

RWA market cap increased approximately 200% over the past year.

Won Crypto Project of the Year honors.

Stablecoin market cap reached $243M+, representing 53% year-over-year growth.

Processed 1.5 billion transactions in 2025 with average fees below $0.001.

Privacy testnet launches on 2026-01-07.

Stellar tokens receive full support in Trezor Suite desktop app version 25.12.2, including activation and deactivation features to reclaim the 0.5 XLM reserve.

Becomes the blockchain for Marshall Islands' distribution of universal basic income through USDM1 sovereign bonds, marking the first country to distribute UBI on-chain.

Stellar perpetual futures contracts go live on Coinbase Derivatives with 24/7 trading access for both retail and institutional participants.

Solv Asset Pools go live on Aquarius, a leading liquidity infrastructure in Stellar, enabling native Solv liquidity and seamless exchange of assets within the ecosystem.

XLM gains top 10 position in 7-day DeFi social mindshare metrics.

Stellar ranks 4th among crypto Real World Asset projects by development activity according to Santiment's github data, maintaining its position from the previous month.

Franklin Templeton adds XLM to their EZPZ ETF regulated digital asset fund with a 0.3% allocation as of December 1, 2025.

Stellar gets categorized as a centralized cryptocurrency alongside XRP, BNB, and HBAR in a public warning about crypto risks.

Integrated SolvProtocol, largest onchain BTC treasury, for BTC-backed DeFi yields through Stellar's USDC rails. Utilizes Axelar's interoperability layer for Solv Protocol's yield-bearing products and cross-ecosystem liquidity.

24/7 trading for Stellar monthly futures goes live on Coinbase Derivatives, with altcoin US perpetual-style futures launching December 15.

Onboarded over 1,800 users through cultural activations in Rio de Janeiro and Miami, supported by the Stellar Community Fund. Launched IRL wallet at Stellar House Miami with Privy for wallet creation, art collection points system, and Meridian Pay wallet.

Stellar indexing goes live on Space and Time, providing verifiable data infrastructure to institutions and developers for onchain finance applications.

Reached $1.1B in tokenized assets, ranking 5th among blockchain networks.

Franklin Templeton's Franklin Crypto Index ETF ($EZPZ) includes Stellar Lumens as one of eight cryptocurrencies.

Franklin Crypto Index ETF ($EZPZ) now includes Stellar Lumens in its newly expanded lineup of 8 cryptocurrencies.

Stellar receives verification on the European Ledger, Europe's unified blockchain-based financial platform that upgrades the T2S securities settlement system to DLT-based infrastructure for tokenized central bank money and digital assets.

A Stellar House Panel is scheduled for December 4 in Miami.

US Bancorp's stablecoin pilot involves an institution with $664B in assets under management and extends to research on tokenized assets for 24/7 settlement functionality.

U.S. Bank's stablecoin testing on Stellar involves collaboration with PwC and the Stellar Development Foundation.

U.S. Bancorp tests its own stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain, with the bank's head of digital asset products citing asset-freeze capability as a key institutional feature for on-chain stablecoin adoption.

Wirex, a global fintech serving 7 million users and processing $20 billion annually across 130 countries, adds Stellar chain support through Crossmint smart wallets to power new crypto and stablecoin products.

XLM ranks #1 on LunarCrush AltRank today, a metric combining social and market activity to identify outperforming assets.

DeFi TVL rises 20.97% over 7 days to $166.26M, the biggest weekly gain among listed networks.

CoinMarketCap adds new implementation to showcase ISO 20022 compliant projects, listing XLM alongside other standard-compliant cryptocurrencies.

Coinbase Derivatives adds 24/7 trading and perpetual-style futures for XLM alongside 10 other cryptocurrencies.

Partners with MoneyGram for payment integration, discussing stablecoin infrastructure developments at a December 4 event.

LayerZero Foundation announces new integration with Stellar for cross-chain interoperability and ecosystem connectivity.

SolvProtocol expands to Stellar and Canton.

XLM breaks key $0.25 support level amid broader altcoin drawdown.

Partners with Mastercard, Standard Chartered, Bain & Company, OKX, Fireblocks, Zodia, 21X, and Seturion (Boerse Stuttgart Group) on tokenization.

Wirex and Stellar launch dual-stablecoin Visa settlement in USDC and EURC for 7 million+ users.

RedSwan Digital tokenizes commercial real estate via SEC-compliant security token offerings on Stellar and now accepts stablecoins for the platform.

Fireblocks, Solana, Polygon, Stellar, and TON form stablecoin alliance.

XLM records $109M in 24-hour trading volume, ranking third among RWA performers by trading volume.

Stronghold announces ISO 20022 support within its $SHx ecosystem on the Stellar network.

Franklin Templeton expands tokenized fund platform "Benji" to Canton Network, with deployment already active on Stellar alongside eight other blockchain networks including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Aptos, Solana, Vechain, and BNB Chain.

Thorwallet launches Stellar cross-chain swaps powered by NEAR Intents, enabling non-custodial swaps of XLM and Stellar USDC to/from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain with access to Blend lending markets.

Spain's Turbo Energy pilots tokenized debt financing for solar projects with first installation at a supermarket in Spain.

Stellar and Taurus selected for tokenized clean energy financing pilot program in Spain.

Core Engineer details the Whisk upgrade featuring parallelism for guaranteed performance, low-MEV design via protocol-level DEX, and privacy roadmap for institutional use.

Competitive security audit for Reflector protocol ends November 11th with $20,000 prize pool, conducted in collaboration with Stellar organizations and Code4rena.

NEAR Intents integration with Stellar handles approximately $20M in daily volume.

Stellar Development Foundation joins alliance with Fireblocks, Polygon Labs, Mysten Labs, Monad Foundation, Solana Foundation, and TON Foundation to standardize cross-chain payments.

Thorwallet launches NEAR Intents integration enabling cross-chain swaps with Stellar supported among dozens of networks including Sui, Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain, live on mobile and web.

Solv partners with Stellar as the ecosystem's yield partner for global RWA adoption.

Following October 28 launch of three crypto spot ETFs, XLM identified as potential candidate for additional spot ETFs expected in coming months under new generic listing standards.

Stellar joins the Chainlink Scale program and adopts Chainlink Data Feeds, Data Streams, and CCIP to enable cross-chain applications and interoperability infrastructure for builders.

OpenZeppelin releases v0.5.0 contracts for Stellar, introducing Smart Accounts on Soroban SDK, RWA 3643 institutional tokenization standard, and Tokenized Vaults for DeFi yield-bearing assets.

OpenZeppelin Contracts for Stellar v0.5.0 releases with Smart Accounts on Soroban SDK, RWA 3643 standard for institutional tokenization, and Tokenized Vaults for DeFi yield-bearing assets.

MIRAI-X launches as Stellar-based decentralized escrow platform by AAC_Japan, enabling fractional access to real estate and collectibles with live UAE-Japan pipeline supporting USDC/JPY.

XLM lists on rails_xyz platform with 5x leverage trading available for long and short positions.

Mastercard integrates Stellar through its Crypto Credential, connecting 3.3 billion cardholders to the network.

IBM partners with Stellar to disrupt cross-border payments, covering 72 countries and 47 currencies.

Reflector, a decentralized price feed oracle for Stellar DeFi smart contracts, launches a 15-day security audit competition in collaboration with Stellar Org, Build On Stellar, and Code4rena.

Q3 Review Webinar scheduled for October 30 to present metrics, milestones, and momentum from Q3 progress.

Stellar joins Centrifuge V3's hub-and-spoke multi-chain architecture for unified asset management across multiple blockchains.

VISA expands stablecoin settlement support on the network to four currencies. Space and Time integrates Stellar indexing into their blockchain data ecosystem.

Transaction volumes grow +18% this week, the highest among major blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Aptos, Avalanche, and NEAR.

ProShares files for CoinDesk Crypto 20 ETF on NYSE that includes XLM as one of 20 cryptocurrencies in the tracked index.

Smart Wallets V2 goes live on Stellar, designed to launch stablecoin apps and trusted by MoneyGram for global fintech operations.

Stellar partners with Reflector for a 15-day competitive security audit of the Reflector codebase to help secure ecosystem projects.

Stellar ranks #4 in Real World Assets projects by development activity but shows a downward trend from last month's ranking.

Protocol upgrade vote planned for October 26, 2025 to address and fix an archival issue.

A 75-day window has started where ETFs for XLM and other assets could be approved if there's no SEC action, with a more realistic timeline of approval within a few weeks once government reopens.

The network is identified as one of 11 totally permissioned chains in the top 100 market cap, described as centralized pretenders that should be rejected.

A platform raises APY on XLM Earn campaign to 333% for new users and launches a $3,333 XLM giveaway.

Stellar integrates with idOS network for decentralized KYC functionality, enabling wallet-based identity verification without requiring special browser extensions or apps.

Stellar ranks #9 among top 10 blockchain ecosystems for new developers in 2025 with 2,226 new developers joining the platform.

RWA market cap on the network reaches $600+ million with 25% year-over-year growth, and access to over $3 billion in RWAs is announced through partnerships with Centrifuge and Etherfuse for permissionless U.S. Treasuries in DeFi.

Stellar team members collaborate with Backpack team on RWA tokenization initiative bridging Wall Street and Web3.

Privacy becomes a renewed focus for the platform, with the CPO stating it will be the best place to experiment with cutting-edge cryptography.

deRWA protocol operates on Stellar, providing DeFi access to real-world asset yields with onchain stable access.

XLM is integrated as one of the core assets on Flare Networks' hub chain, which is building a DeFi ecosystem for major cryptocurrencies including XRP, BTC, DOGE, and LTC.

XLM is listed among chains to be integrated into 'chainnet', a new THORChain fork focused on adding top 100 cryptocurrencies for cross-chain swaps before Christmas.

XLM breaks out of months-long bearish trendline and is currently retesting that level, which aligns with a bullish Fair Value Gap.

OKX announces support for new unified USD spot trading pairs in the European Economic Area, with XLM included among 10 cryptocurrencies receiving these new trading options.