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Yellow Card and UNHCR: Stellar Push for Remittances and Humanitarian Aid

Stellar Momentum: Yellow Card Onboards for African Remittances Stellar ($XLM) made waves in Q3 2024 with key expansions in remittances and aid. African fintech Yellow Card integrated USDC on the Stellar network in February 2024. This enables lightning-fast cross-border transactions. Yellow Card, Africa’s largest licensed stablecoin on/off-ramp, now offers users expedited USDC transfers. Fees drop […]

Nov 4, 2025
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Stellar’s Treasury Dominance: $505.8M Tokenized U.S. Treasuries Power 94.8% of Its RWA Market

Stellar’s RWA Surge: Treasuries Take Center Stage in 2025 Stellar ($XLM) is quietly dominating the real-world asset (RWA) space. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone sit at $505.8 million on the network. They represent 94.8% of Stellar’s total RWA market share. Across just ten offerings, this highlights Stellar’s focus on secure, yield-bearing assets. As RWA.xyz data shows, […]

Nov 4, 2025
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Unlocking the $16 Trillion RWA Giant: Why Only 1% Is On-Chain?

The Massive RWA Opportunity: $16 Trillion Waiting in the Wings The global Real-World Asset (RWA) market is enormous. It tops $16 trillion in 2025. Yet, only about 1% has gone on-chain. That’s just $160 billion tokenized so far. RWAs include real estate, bonds, art, and commodities. Tokenization turns them into digital shares on blockchains. This […]

Nov 4, 2025
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Mercado Bitcoin Tokenizes $200M RWAs on Stellar: Latin America’s Blockchain Boom

Mercado Bitcoin’s Stellar Move: $200M RWAs Go On-Chain in September 2025 Mercado Bitcoin, Latin America’s largest digital asset platform, has partnered with Stellar ($XLM) to tokenize $200 million in real-world assets (RWAs). Announced on September 18, 2025, at the Stellar Meridian event in Rio de Janeiro, this initiative brings fixed-income and equity instruments on-chain. For […]

Nov 3, 2025
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21X Adds Stellar to EU’s First Regulated Blockchain Exchange: RWAs Go Live

21X Integrates Stellar: A Compliant Leap for EU Crypto 21X, the EU’s first regulated blockchain exchange, has added Stellar ($XLM). This happened on October 30, 2025. Now, EU institutions can trade tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) like securities and bonds. For beginners, 21X follows MiCA rules fully. It mixes stock exchange safety with blockchain speed. Moreover, […]

Nov 2, 2025
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Stellar Joins Chainlink SCALE: Targeting $3B RWAs and Supercharging Tokenized DeFi

Stellar’s SCALE Leap: A Game-Changer for RWAs and Cross-Chain Magic Stellar ($XLM), the blockchain powerhouse for efficient global payments, has joined Chainlink’s SCALE program, a bold move to turbocharge tokenized assets and DeFi while aiming for $3 billion in real-world assets (RWAs) by year-end 2025. Announced in early 2025, this integration brings Chainlink’s Data Feeds, […]

Oct 31, 2025
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SG-FORGE’s EURCV Stablecoin on Stellar: MiCA-Compliant Euro Powerhouse Goes Live in H1 2025

SG-FORGE’s EURCV Launch: A MiCA Milestone on Stellar in February 2025 In a bold stride for European digital finance, Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE), the crypto arm of France’s third-largest bank, launched its euro-backed stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible (EURCV), on the Stellar ($XLM) network in February 2025. As one of the first fully MiCA-compliant (Markets in Crypto-Assets) euro […]

Oct 31, 2025
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Visa, Stellar, and MoneyGram: Coopetition for a Faster, Fairer Financial Future

The Power of Coopetition: Giants Collaborating for Global Good In the high-stakes world of finance, “coopetition”, that blend of competition and cooperation, is proving to be the secret sauce for progress. Visa, Stellar ($XLM), and MoneyGram are leading the charge, teaming up to make payments quicker, cheaper, and more inclusive. At recent events like the […]

Oct 31, 2025
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Bitcoin at 17: The Nine-Page PDF That Still Fuels the World’s Rebellion

October 31, 2008: A Quiet Forum Post That Changed Everything Seventeen years ago today, October 31, 2008, a pseudonymous figure named Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a simple nine-page PDF on a cryptography mailing list. Titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” it wasn’t flashy. No hype, no ICO, just a technical blueprint for digital money free […]

Oct 31, 2025
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Mastercard’s $2B Zero Hash Bet: Teaming with Stellar to Launch Stablecoins Globally

Mastercard’s Big Crypto Swing: Snagging Zero Hash for $2B Mastercard, the payments behemoth processing trillions yearly, is reportedly in late-stage talks to acquire Zero Hash, a Chicago-based crypto infrastructure whiz, for a whopping $1.5-2 billion. As of October 29, 2025, sources tell Fortune this deal would hand Mastercard the keys to Zero Hash’s stablecoin toolkit, […]

Oct 30, 2025
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Archax and Aberdeen: Tokenizing a Money Market Fund on Stellar, A Milestone for RWAs

Archax’s Stellar Partnership: Tokenizing Aberdeen’s Fund in August 2025 In a move that’s accelerating the tokenization revolution, Archax, the UK-regulated digital asset platform, partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) in August 2025 to bring Aberdeen Asset Management’s money market fund on-chain. Announced on August 18, this collaboration included a direct investment from SDF into […]

Oct 30, 2025
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Stellar’s Humanitarian Leap: UNDP Partnership and Ripple Interoperability Revolutionize Aid Delivery

Stellar and UNDP: A January 2025 Game-Changer for Global Inclusion In a move that’s redefining how the world handles crises, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Europe and Central Asia in January 2025 to turbocharge blockchain for humanitarian aid and financial access. This collaboration aims to roll out […]

Oct 30, 2025
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Stellar Power Plays: Nansen Analytics and OpenZeppelin Tools Supercharge Soroban Development

Stellar’s H1 2025: A Developer Boom on the Horizon Stellar ($XLM), the blockchain that’s all about fast, cheap global payments, had a blockbuster first half of 2025, especially for devs building on its Soroban smart contract platform. Key integrations with Nansen for on-chain analytics and OpenZeppelin for security audits and Relayer services slashed barriers for […]

Oct 29, 2025