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Allbridge launches a multi-wave on-chain campaign to introduce users to the Stellar ecosystem through practical quests and rewards. The campaign features a $10,000 reward pool across five two-week waves, starting December 22, focusing on bridging assets and interacting with Stellar protocols. Supported by the Stellar Development Foundation, it emphasizes DeFi, asset issuance, and real-world adoption.

The Marshall Islands has launched the world's first blockchain-based universal basic income (UBI) program using the Stellar blockchain. The initiative, called ENRA, disburses USDM1—a U.S. dollar-denominated sovereign bond fully backed by U.S. Treasuries—via digital wallets to citizens across dispersed islands. This replaces physical cash deliveries with instant on-chain transfers.

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.

Stellar Foundation partners with RedSwan Digital Real Estate to bring $100 million in tokenized commercial real estate onto the Stellar Network, capitalizing on the RWA market's explosive 2025 growth and the emerging opportunity in onchain real estate.

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.

Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation, describes Stellar as invisible blockchain infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with existing financial systems to drive real-world financial inclusion. He highlights key partnerships with MoneyGram and Franklin Templeton, enabling crypto-to-cash services across 430K locations in 175+ countries. Stellar's focus is on scalability, institutional adoption, and making money accessible without users noticing the blockchain.

Nasdaq-listed Turbo Energy partnered with Taurus and Stellar to tokenize debt financing for solar-plus-battery systems in Spain, using Taurus' institutional tokenization platform on the Stellar blockchain.

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.

Templar, a lending protocol powered by NEAR's chain abstraction, launches on Stellar enabling users to deposit XLM and borrow stablecoins across multiple chains from a single wallet. The integration expands Stellar's RWA ecosystem and unlocks cross-chain liquidity.

Stellar has partnered with Chainlink to integrate CCIP, Data Feeds, and Data Streams into the Stellar ecosystem, enabling secure cross-chain asset transfers and institutional-grade tokenization while advancing financial inclusion for underbanked populations.

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) #39 round awarded $1,115,655 in XLM to 12 innovative projects building on the Stellar network. Highlights include QuillTip for microtipping, Stallion for decentralized bounties, and RendBit for cross-border banking in Africa. The round featured record voter participation and governance updates to Neural Quorum Governance for fairer voting.

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.

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.