Stellar Ecosystem
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Space and Time released a guide for using SXT Studio to query, visualize, and analyze Stellar Network data. The tool supports SQL and natural language queries, dashboards, and custom explorer building for tracking wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.

This article explores the privacy paradox on public blockchains, examining how transparent networks can enable confidential transactions while maintaining compliance. It identifies 'self-doxxing' as the core privacy problem and discusses potential solutions involving issuers and privacy providers.

This article explains why vaults are critical DeFi infrastructure for Stellar's evolution toward institutional adoption. It covers vault mechanics, the rise of curation as a financial discipline, and how Untangled is building vault infrastructure on Stellar to enable yield generation and asset management.

This article compares Proof-of-Stake consensus models with Stellar's Consensus Protocol (SCP), arguing that PoS networks create structural incentives for MEV extraction and validator misconduct, while Stellar's explicit trust model and revocable authority provide better protection for regulated asset issuers.

Stellar processed 3.6 billion transactions in 2025 with 99.99% uptime, reaching 10.3 million unique addresses and $785 million in onchain real-world assets. Major institutions including Franklin Templeton, U.S. Bank, PayPal, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands deployed production systems on Stellar, while payment volume hit $55.6 billion, up 52% year-over-year.

The Stellar Development Foundation and TopNod announced at Consensus Hong Kong that TopNod's non-custodial Web3 wallet is integrating with the Stellar network, expanding access to Stellar's infrastructure across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with a focus on real-world assets and stablecoins.

Chainalysis expanded its blockchain monitoring platform to support Stellar tokens, enabling automatic coverage for fungible and non-fungible tokens deployed to the network. The integration includes KYT alerts, entity screening, and transaction investigation tools for tracking fund flows and identifying illicit activity.

KindFi announces its attendance at Stellar Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, themed 'The Blueprint,' alongside Costa Rica's Trustless Work ecosystem projects. They highlight Trustless Work's Stellar-based escrow infrastructure, GrantFox for grants, and Pacto for P2P trading. The event focuses on real-world finance, stablecoins, DeFi, and partnerships for transparent crowdfunding in LATAM.

The Stellar Development Foundation introduced Meridian Pay, a production-ready smart wallet built on Stellar Mainnet that launched at Meridian 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. The wallet uses passkey-based authentication, eliminating seed phrases and passwords while enabling seamless onchain transactions with zero user-facing fees.

A comprehensive guide to issuing assets on the Stellar network, covering both classic asset issuance through a four-step process and advanced smart contract-based tokenization using Soroban. The article explains how Stellar's design enables efficient, low-cost asset tokenization with global accessibility.

Dfns introduces BYOABI, enabling clients to import smart contract ABIs and interact with them natively from Dfns wallets. This upgrades Dfns to manage full smart contract lifecycles like minting, burning, and pausing under its security and governance model. Future expansions include support for Stellar and other networks.

Normal Finance, an on-chain investing protocol built on Stellar, is now live at normalfinance.io. It enables Stellar users to gain long or short exposure to major crypto assets like BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA, and XRP directly from their Stellar wallets without bridging. The platform offers self-custodial synthetic positions, yield earning, and simple onboarding.

Meridian 2025 featured an innovative NFT activation that transformed the conference into an interactive art experience, with 24 global artists creating 80 unique works. Attendees collected proof-of-attendance NFTs via QR codes and tap-to-collect mechanics using Meridian Pay smart wallet, marking the first major real-world implementation of Stellar's SEP-50 NFT standard.

An analysis of why open blockchain networks offer superior legal and regulatory advantages for institutions managing critical financial operations, using the October 2025 AWS outage as a case study demonstrating the risks of centralized sequencers and single points of failure.

Litemint has launched a wallet-first redesign of its NFT Marketplace on the Stellar blockchain, eliminating registrations and logins for seamless wallet-based interactions. It features one-click minting for various media types, full SEP-1 compliance, and trading across 50+ Stellar markets including StellarExpert Top50. The platform leverages Stellar's first-class asset model for NFTs, ensuring universal interoperability without smart contracts.

Token Terminal's weekly Snapshot covers emerging DeFi vault curators, Paxos' growth to $6.7B in issued assets including PYUSD and USDG, Solana's diversifying stablecoin landscape, and Ethereum L1's record transactions at low fees. It highlights new listings like Fathom on XDC and tokenized assets on Stellar such as sgBENJI and gBENJI. Platform updates include Studio improvements and a new Nansen integration.

This article explores five zero-knowledge proof use cases for the Stellar ecosystem: zkTokens for private transactions, zkLogin for secure authentication, zkKYC for privacy-preserving compliance, zkVoting for governance, and zkVM for scalable computation via Risc Zero integration with Soroban.

Stellar's financial ecosystem expanded significantly in 2025, with stablecoin market cap growing 53% to $243.6M driven by PayPal's PYUSD launch, while RWA market cap surged 196% to $890.2M. U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on Stellar, and the Marshall Islands completed the world's first onchain universal basic income disbursement by a national government.

This article recommends top podcasts for DeFi enthusiasts in 2026, highlighting Stellar Development Foundation's 'block by block' hosted by Denelle Dixon and 'Tech Talks with Tomer' hosted by Tomer Weller. It emphasizes their value for insights into Stellar's blockchain applications and technical innovations. Broader DeFi podcasts like Bankless, The Defiant, and Unchained are also suggested, with a plug for Hoops Finance's Stellar analytics tools.

Trustless Work introduces an escrow-based capital allocation system for tokenized projects, where investor funds are held in smart contracts and released progressively based on verified milestones rather than upfront to issuers. The platform enables transparent, trustless fundraising for real-world assets, construction, and infrastructure projects by separating capital control from token issuance.

Normal's 2025 recap highlights its evolution from a centralized product to a fully self-custodial, decentralized protocol built on Stellar. Key achievements include 30,000 lines of smart contract code for wallets, AMMs, DEX, synthetic assets, and on-chain indexes, a Halborn security audit backed by SDF, and a Stellar Community Fund grant. The team expanded with key hires like CTO Jay and frontend lead Niko, while hosting global community events.

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.

This article explores composability on Stellar, demonstrating how modular DeFi protocols can be combined to create seamless user experiences. It details a real-world example of Blend, DeFindex, and Beans working together as execution, abstraction, and user-facing layers, and encourages developers to build on Stellar's growing ecosystem.