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ChainPatrol announces the launch of its redesigned website, ChainPatrol.com, featuring 24/7 booking, streamlined landing pages, fresh blog content, updated product info, changelog, and new customer testimonials. The platform protects Web3 projects from phishing and impersonations. Notable clients include Stellar among others like MetaMask, TON, Sui, Polkadot, and Polymarket.

A Stellar ambassador recounts their experience at the Avalanche Build hackathon, emphasizing collaboration, community, and interoperability across blockchain ecosystems. They highlight learning from diverse participants, using tools like Vibecoding and AI, and their team's 3rd place finish. The event reinforced the value of open communities bridging networks like Stellar and Avalanche for real-world impact.

Tansu has been officially deployed on Stellar's mainnet with contract ID CDXINK2T3P46M4LWK35FVIXXHJ2XHAS4FOVCGVPJ63YV5OVTM24IY5BI. Users can view the contract on Stellar Expert and access the dApp at app.tansu.dev to register projects and secure software supply chains.

Spiko details their custom blockchain infrastructure for handling indexing, real-time queries, and transaction relaying across multiple networks including Stellar. They moved away from off-the-shelf solutions like The Graph due to reliability issues, building a robust system using RPC servers. This architecture improves efficiency, reduces bugs, and speeds up expansion to new chains.

Stellar partnered with Rise In to host Hack Pera, Turkey’s largest IRL Web3 hackathon during Istanbul Blockchain Week in June 2025, attracting 200+ developers and resulting in 72 projects. Ten teams won shares of $25,000 in prizes, with one launching on Stellar mainnet and gaining 100+ users immediately. The event featured strong mentorship, high participant satisfaction (4.86/5), and a focus on building real on-chain value in the Stellar ecosystem.

Stronghold's SHx utility token launched on Kraken exchange, marking its first U.S. listing. The token powers payments, settlements, and governance on Stellar, with new multi-chain capabilities via the SHx Bridge connecting Stellar and Ethereum through Axelar.

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.

Myosin hosted a marketing-focused event at Korea Blockchain Week in partnership with Stellar, featuring panels on crypto GTM strategies, a discussion on crypto and traditional finance convergence, and marketing roasts of projects including Blend Capital, a DeFi lending protocol on Stellar.

This article analyzes McKinsey's 2025 Global Payments Report, highlighting stablecoins like USDC and PYUSD on the Stellar network as key to future payment rails amid margin compression, rail fragmentation, and AI-driven edge intelligence. It outlines practical applications for remittances, merchant settlements, B2B treasury, and agentic commerce. Stellar's low fees, Soroban smart contracts, and MoneyGram integrations position it as a pragmatic, programmable settlement layer.

Stellar hosts over $533 million in real-world assets excluding stablecoins, up 25% year-over-year, with Franklin Templeton's BENJI money market fund leading at $496 million. The network now provides access to $3 billion in total RWAs including tokenized treasuries, equities, bonds, and real estate from issuers like Ondo, Mercado Bitcoin, and Centrifuge.

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.

A comprehensive tutorial on implementing tokenized vaults on Stellar Soroban following the ERC-4626 standard pattern. The article explains vault mechanics, security considerations like inflation attacks, and details both read-only and state-changing vault functions for deposits, withdrawals, and asset conversions.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon warns that blockchain risks repeating history by becoming controlled by corporate monopolies rather than remaining open infrastructure. She argues for permissionless networks like Stellar over closed private blockchains that concentrate power and extract value.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon published an essay warning that the blockchain industry risks repeating historical monopolies if private companies continue building closed, vertically integrated networks. She argues for open, permissionless infrastructure like Stellar over proprietary blockchains controlled by financial institutions.

Abroad announces a strategic partnership with Zypto to enable instant crypto payments in Brazil using stablecoins like USDC. Users can pay via PIX QR codes or numbers, with instant settlement in Brazilian reais directly to recipients' accounts. Zypto's ecosystem, including its wallet and payment tools, integrates with partners like Stellar for seamless crypto-to-fiat usability.

An analysis debunking common blockchain decentralization myths, arguing that proof-of-stake systems concentrate power through wealth rather than validator count, and contrasting this with Stellar's Consensus Protocol (SCP), which grants power through explicit, community-chosen, and revocable trust rather than capital.

Wirex, a UK-based digital payments platform, partnered with Crossmint to upgrade from EOAs to smart wallets for global scalability. This enables programmable governance, multichain support including Stellar, and flexible custody models. The shift reduces vendor lock-in and accelerates product launches across retail and institutional offerings.

Veridise has published a security checklist for Soroban developers to prepare for smart contract audits. The guide covers best practices and vulnerability prevention for building on Stellar's native smart contract platform.