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SCF #40 concluded 2025 with 24 awarded projects receiving $2.18M in XLM funding. The round received 85 submissions and introduced governance insights on voter participation, quorum adjustments, and upcoming SCF v7.0 improvements.

Trustless Work reviews its 2025 achievements, including completion of the Draper University/Stellar Embark program, extensive hackathon participation across chains like Stellar and Solana, and shipping production-ready escrow infrastructure. The project highlights builder adoption, enterprise pilots in real estate tokenization and private credit, and Stellar's ecosystem growth with milestones like PYUSD launch. Looking to 2026, they aim to accelerate integrations, volume, and tokenized assets while preparing to raise capital.

RedSwan Digital Real Estate CEO Ed Nwokedi discussed tokenization's impact on real estate investing at Stellar House Miami, highlighting how bringing $100M in tokenized commercial real estate to Stellar lowers investment barriers and creates new capital sources for the industry.

The article discusses expectations for a 2026 bear market in crypto following historical Bitcoin cycles, but argues this time might be different due to reduced selling pressure and positive developments like maturing web3 infrastructure. It highlights promising areas such as zero-knowledge tech and DeFi, alongside risks from macroeconomics and politics. An ad for Solang, enabling Solidity contracts on Stellar, appears at the end.

Denelle Dixon interviews Austin Campbell, founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and NYU Stern professor, on how blockchain fundamentally changes money settlement and financial infrastructure. Campbell argues stablecoins represent a structural upgrade enabling faster velocity and capital efficiency, while real-world asset tokenization only succeeds when it opens access to previously closed markets.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced an updated mandate framework for 2025 and beyond, reorganizing its XLM holdings into four strategic focus areas: SDF Development, Stellar Growth, Product and Innovation, and Assets and Liquidity. The update reflects the network's evolution toward production financial infrastructure and real-world asset adoption.

Token Terminal's weekly Snapshot analyzes Circle's expansion beyond USDC into transaction-based revenues via CCTP, yield-bearing assets with USYC, and EU markets through EURC on Stellar and other chains. It highlights new project listings like Starknet and Deliswap, stablecoin additions, and platform updates including Queries SQL access. The newsletter showcases data-driven crypto insights with charts and product improvements.

Jay Malve has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Normal after just four months as a Full Stack Engineer. His contributions include architecting onchain index funds built on Stellar and enhancing the company's engineering culture. Jay outlines his vision for seamless crypto adoption across chains with intuitive products.

Stellar Meridian 2025 in Rio showcased the evolution of Stellar's blockchain into production-grade infrastructure for payments, identity, RWAs, and stablecoins. Key sessions highlighted open systems, regulatory progress, privacy innovations, and real-world applications from partners like MoneyGram, Nubank, and Ondo Finance. LATAM and Africa emerged as blueprints for financial inclusion and efficient money movement.

This article explores how Franklin Templeton leveraged Stellar's open infrastructure to launch the first registered money market fund on a blockchain in 2021, demonstrating the "permissionless premium"—the ability to experiment, learn, and build without approval. The piece illustrates how open systems enable unexpected innovations, like Securrency's clawback feature that became critical for regulatory compliance, and create unpredictable adoption pathways that centralized platforms cannot.

Pavel Matveev of COCA, a non-custodial stablecoin-native wallet built on Stellar, is featured in the Stellar Community Fund Spotlight series. COCA received a $50K SCF grant and a $1M Series A investment from SDF to integrate USDC support and solve Web3 security and usability challenges for mass-market adoption.

Turbo Energy is partnering with Stellar blockchain and Taurus to tokenize debt for financing hybrid solar energy projects, starting with a pilot in Spain. The initiative aims to broaden access to renewable energy investments by enabling fractional ownership through blockchain. This reflects growing use of tokenization for real-world assets in the Energy-as-a-Service market.

RedSwan Digital Real Estate announced three tokenized investment portfolios totaling $259.4 million, including a $170M hospitality portfolio and $89.4M multifamily portfolio, minted on Stellar and Hedera for compliant institutional real estate access.

Beans integrated DeFindex to launch stablecoin yield features in 3 weeks, attracting $610K in deposits within 90 days. The partnership eliminated 11+ months of development work by using DeFindex's pre-built yield infrastructure instead of building in-house.

A crypto market analysis from November 5, 2025, discusses recent Bitcoin and altcoin selloffs amid bearish sentiment, while weighing reasons for optimism like maturing cycles and potential Q1 recovery against risks of breaking $100k support. The author remains cautiously bullish expecting volatility before expansion. Ads and links highlight Stellar blockchain tools like the Stellar Data Tool and Soroban Playground.

EquitX partners with Runtime Verification for a comprehensive security audit of its v1 core contracts ahead of its December mainnet launch on Stellar. The audit, supported by the Stellar Development Foundation's Soroban Audit Bank, ensures the protocol's synthetic equities are trustless, transparent, and robust. This step underscores EquitX's commitment to security as it introduces borderless access to equities.

Etherfuse is launching stablebonds on Stellar—yield-bearing tokens backed by local government treasuries from countries like Mexico and Brazil—reducing cross-border conversion costs from 7% to 0.04% while enabling financial sovereignty for emerging markets.

The Stellar i³ Awards 2025 recognized three standout projects at Stellar Meridian: Decaf won Impact for its non-custodial stablecoin app with 50k users, Etherfuse won Innovation for tokenized government treasuries and peso stablecoins, and DeFindex won Interoperability for its plug-and-play DeFi API for wallets.

The article compares redeemable gold-backed tokens like DGLD, PAXG, XAUt, DaVinci, and SGT, focusing on Swiss redemption options, minimums, fees, and logistics. It highlights practical challenges for physical delivery and contrasts with non-redeemable gold ETFs. A dedicated section explains Stellar's advantages for issuing such tokenized assets.

WisdomTree launched a physically backed Stellar Lumens ETP with a 0.50% fee on SIX and Euronext, with Xetra listing planned for Oct. 15. The product provides institutional-grade exposure to XLM's spot price across European exchanges.

Meridian 2025, held in Rio de Janeiro, showcased the Stellar ecosystem's collaborative blueprint for building open financial infrastructure. The conference featured major announcements from PayPal, Ondo, Mercado Bitcoin, Centrifuge, and others, alongside HackMeridian where 400+ builders created 110+ projects across innovation and composability tracks.

Normal Finance is building a platform to provide one-click diversified crypto exposure across chains without bridges or CEXs, solving fragmentation for everyday investors. They chose Stellar for its low costs, speed, scalability, global accessibility, and focus on real financial solutions over speculation. Currently, Normal has a live testnet and is preparing for mainnet launch on Stellar.

The article argues that Web3, including blockchain technologies, may succeed like cloud computing by becoming invisible infrastructure for developers rather than a consumer-facing product like ChatGPT. It outlines key barriers to adoption such as poor UX, fragmentation, unclear regulations, and onboarding challenges, and emphasizes the need for unique value propositions like trustless coordination. A linked post highlights Stellar's role in bridging assets with Near intents, tying into broader interoperability discussions.

RedSwan Digital Real Estate, a FINRA-regulated marketplace, has tokenized $100 million in commercial real estate assets on the Stellar blockchain, enabling fractional ownership and 24/7 secondary market liquidity for institutional-grade properties.