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A Long-Overdue Bridge Gets Built Moving USDC between blockchains used to be a pain. You either needed a Circle Mint account or had to trust a third-party bridge with your funds. That friction kept a lot of people from using Stellar, even though the network has always been fast and cheap. Now, that barrier is […]
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The world’s financial infrastructure is shifting For years, blockchain enthusiasts predicted that governments would eventually adopt the technology. Most people smiled politely and moved on. Now, those predictions are becoming reality, and the timeline is moving faster than most expected. Two major government announcements in the past few months have put Stellar squarely at the […]
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A German Giant Just Made It Official Something big just happened in European finance, and most people are still catching up. The Stellar Development Foundation has invested in Cashlink, Germany’s leading tokenization firm. This is not just a funding story. It is a signal that the infrastructure of Europe’s digital capital markets is taking shape, […]
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A Big Exchange Makes a Smart Move Kraken now supports USDC deposits and withdrawals on the Stellar network. For most people, that might sound like a minor technical update. In reality, it is a signal that the financial world is quietly shifting. Kraken is one of the largest and most trusted crypto exchanges on the […]
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A Small Island Making a Big Move Bermuda just made history. The Government of Bermuda and the Stellar Development Foundation announced a partnership to move key payments and financial services onto the Stellar blockchain. This makes Bermuda the first nation actively working toward a fully onchain economy. It is bold. It is real. And it […]
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The Old Guard Makes a Bold Move Something significant happened in early May 2026. State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management launched the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund, known as SWEEP. State Street manages over $5 trillion in assets. This is not a small experiment. This is one of the biggest names […]
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A big name just joined the Stellar network Mesh, a global crypto payments network with over 900 million users, recently chose the Stellar blockchain as its core settlement layer. This means Mesh will now route and settle stablecoin payments directly on Stellar. For anyone following crypto payments, this is a significant moment. Stellar just earned […]
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Tokenization Was Just the Beginning Putting a real-world asset on a blockchain sounds impressive. But once that asset is on-chain, what happens next? Can it be used as collateral? What if a borrower defaults? Who enforces the rules? These are the questions that Ascend is built to answer. This week, the Stellar Development Foundation put […]
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A New Kind of Stablecoin Is Here Most stablecoins do one thing: hold value. You park your dollars, and they just sit there. Figure’s YLDS changes that. It is the first SEC-registered, yield-bearing dollar product live on the Stellar blockchain. In simple terms, your digital dollars now earn money while you hold them. This is […]
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A New Accelerator Just Changed the Game for Blockchain Builders Something big just happened in the Stellar ecosystem. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) teamed up with CV Labs to launch a brand new 12-week accelerator. It targets early-stage startups across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This is not just another blockchain program. It is […]
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A Milestone Worth Celebrating Five years ago, Franklin Templeton did something no one had done before. They put a U.S.-registered money market fund on a public blockchain. The Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, known as FOBXX, became the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use a public blockchain as its official system of record for […]
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A Partnership That Keeps Delivering MoneyGram and the Stellar Development Foundation just renewed their partnership for multiple years. That’s big news. Since 2021, the two organizations have built the world’s largest cash-to-crypto network together. They also launched the MoneyGram Ramps API and added a stablecoin wallet inside the MoneyGram app. These are not promises. They […]
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Most people enter crypto through an exchange. They buy assets, they hold a balance, and they assume they own what they see on the screen. But what they really own is an IOU, a number in a database controlled by someone else. Self-custody changes that equation entirely. What “Self-Custody” Actually Means A self-custodial wallet generates […]
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A New Chapter for Euro Payments Something significant just happened in the world of digital finance. AllUnity, a joint venture backed by DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy, has launched EURAU on the Stellar network. EURAU is a fully reserved, euro-backed stablecoin. In short, it brings regulated euro liquidity directly onto one of the most trusted […]
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Three Altcoins Made the Cut Not every cryptocurrency earns a seat at the institutional table. In fact, out of more than 15,000 crypto assets, Volatility Shares chose only three altcoins for a 2x leveraged ETF launch: Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM). That kind of selectivity doesn’t happen by accident. It reflects serious research, […]