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According to CoinDesk, U.S. Bank, the fifth largest commercial bank in the United States (a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp), announced the successful completion of a real-time cross-border payment test based on its own US dollar stablecoin USBDC, with transactions completed via the Stellar blockchain between its entities in North America and Europe. As one of the first bank-issued stablecoins deployed on a public blockchain, USBDC is expected to bridge the gap in the global banking system with 24/7 trading capabilities.The pilot validated the functions of USBDC, including minting, payment redemption, freezing, and recovery, and tested the bank's internally developed digital asset platform, which serves as the foundation for issuing, managing, and transferring tokenized assets, enabling seamless integration between traditional banking infrastructure and blockchain networks. U.S. Bank Chairman and CEO Gunjan Kedia stated that this real-time pilot demonstrates its ability to accelerate global cash management and fund flows.This test is based on the bank's strategic partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, with future application scenarios including liquidity management, collateral transfer, and cross-border financial operations. As global stablecoin regulation advances, banks are accelerating their entry into the market. Last week, 21 financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, announced plans to form a company to issue stablecoins, with the expectation of launching a dollar token in the first half of 2027.

According to Cointelegraph, the market value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) on the Stellar blockchain is expected to grow by approximately 360% by 2026, rising from $868.8 million at the end of last year to nearly $4 billion. The Dune Analytics dashboard maintained by Stellar shows that as of August 29, the market value of RWA on the network reached $3.996 billion, covering asset classes such as U.S. Treasury bonds, private and public credit, and non-U.S. government debt.The concentration of issuers is relatively high, with Spiko leading at $1.55 billion, followed by Realiz ($559 million), Tradable ($548 million), Franklin Templeton ($546 million), and Ondo ($535 million). Stellar has also made breakthroughs in the non-U.S. government debt sector, with the Stellar Development Foundation citing data from RWA.xyz stating that as of August 20, the network held approximately $490 million in such assets, including tokenized Mexican CETES and Brazilian government bonds issued through Etherfuse.Institutional adoption continues to drive growth. In May, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced plans to integrate its tokenization services with Stellar, with DTC tokenized assets expected to go live in the first half of 2027, potentially supporting tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds, major index ETFs, and Russell 1000 constituents. In July, Tradable announced plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar.

According to The Defiant, oracle provider RedStone reports that tokenized RWA assets on the Stellar chain surpassed $3 billion in July, a significant increase from $785 million in January, while the total locked value in DeFi is only $213 million. The lending protocol Blend holds $127 million, and the pool accepting RWA as collateral is just over $2 million, indicating that RWA issuance has outpaced on-chain availability.The growth is primarily driven by four products: Amundi and Spiko overnight swap fund ($713 million), Spiko T-Bill fund ($536 million), Ondo USDY (over $533 million), and VuMe Bond 2030 ($500 million). RedStone points out that the settlement cycle of RWA does not match the 24/7 on-chain lending market, and the pricing mechanism is the current main bottleneck. Stellar already has 55 SEP-40 price data sources provided by RedStone. RedStone also mentioned that DTCC plans to bring its $114 trillion in custodial assets to Stellar by 2027.

According to a report released by the oracle provider RedStone, the scale of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) on the Stellar chain surpassed $3 billion in July, while the total value locked (TVL) in the network's DeFi was only $213 million, showing a significant gap between the two. The report pointed out that the issuance speed of RWA far exceeds the development of the lending market and collateral pools, which has become a bottleneck restricting the use of on-chain assets.RedStone attributed the growth mainly to four products: Amundi and Spiko's overnight fund ($713 million), Spiko's government bond fund ($536 million), Ondo's USDY (over $533 million), and VuMe Bond 2030 ($500 million). Data from DefiLlama shows that the TVL of the Stellar network is $232.72 million, of which the lending protocol Blend has locked $150.03 million, but the funding pool accepting RWA as collateral is only about $2 million.The report believes that the settlement times of traditional government bonds, credit funds, and money market funds do not match the instant settlement requirements of on-chain lending, while 24/7 price oracles are key to making RWA usable as collateral. Currently, Stellar has connected to 55 SEP-40 price sources from RedStone, covering government bonds, corporate credit, tokenized gold, and money market funds. In addition, the report mentioned that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) plans to introduce custodial assets to Stellar by 2027, with a scale of custodial assets reaching $114 trillion.

VeChain Foundation announced the entry into the next phase of the Renaissance roadmap, Interstellar. Previously, Galactica completed the EVM foundational upgrade, and Hayabusa completed the transformation of consensus and token economics. Interstellar aims to deepen the EVM compatibility of VeChainThor with the Ethereum ecosystem and expand developer capabilities.The first upgrade proposal, VIP-255, will introduce execution layer improvements compatible with Ethereum versions such as Cancun, Prague, and Osaka, including transient storage, MCOPY instruction, and cryptographic support for BLS12-381 and secp256r1. Voting will take place from August 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC to August 17, 2026, 00:00 UTC via the VeVote platform, allowing validators and eligible StarGate NFT holders to participate. This upgrade does not affect the VET and VTHO token economics, and regular holders do not need to take any action.

The tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to the Stellar blockchain to expand institutional access to tokenized RWA. The initiative is expected to launch with $500 million in nominal value assets and will gradually increase to $1 billion over time. Tradable will utilize the Stellar network to support institutional functions such as compliance, investor onboarding, and asset lifecycle management, with the specific launch date yet to be disclosed.Tradable stated that it has tokenized $1.7 billion in private credit assets across nearly 30 institutional-grade private credit positions. Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, noted that the initiative reflects growing institutional interest in using the Stellar network for tokenized RWA. Stellar has recently continued to focus on tokenized RWA and has attracted institutional partners such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.

According to The Block, the Tokenization platform Tradable, invested by ParaFi Capital, plans to migrate approximately $1 billion of private credit assets from the Ethereum Layer 2 ZKsync to the public blockchain Stellar. Tradable was established in 2024 and provides on-chain infrastructure for the full lifecycle management of private credit, compliance controls, and investor account opening. Last year, it tokenized approximately $1.7 billion and nearly 30 institutional-level private credit positions on ZKsync.This migration aims to leverage Stellar's user base and compliance and privacy features in the institutional tokenization field to provide high-quality on-chain private credit investment opportunities to traditional asset managers. Stellar has previously hosted RWA products and stablecoin pilots for Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree, Ondo Finance, Figure, and others.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows: Top five gainers: MemeCore (M) up 79.2%, current price $1.21; Venice Token (VVV) up 13.15%, current price $14.28; Jupiter (JUP) up 12.02%, current price $0.2339; Morpho (MORPHO) up 10.93%, current price $2.08; Stellar (XLM) up 10.7%, current price $0.2025.

According to official news, Circle announced that the cross-chain transfer protocol CCTP now supports Stellar and has included Stellar in Domain 27. In the latest release notes, Circle introduced the content of this update and the key integration details that developers need to pay attention to before transferring USDC in or out of Stellar.

According to CoinDesk, the Stellar Development Foundation has announced a quantum security plan to migrate all XLM accounts to a quantum-resistant signature scheme by the end of 2027, while keeping existing addresses and on-chain transaction history unchanged.The foundation stated that this migration will be completed through protocol layer updates to address the potential cracking risks posed by future quantum computing to existing cryptographic signature algorithms, and to ensure that user accounts do not need to change addresses or rebuild transaction records during the migration process.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows: Top five gainers: MemeCore (M) up 11.35%, current price $3.27; Zcash (ZEC) up 7.06%, current price $567.5; Internet Computer (ICP) up 4.65%, current price $2.94; Ondo (ONDO) up 3.79%, current price $0.3607; Worldcoin (WLD) up 3.75%, current price $0.4005.

According to CoinDesk, MoneyGram announced the launch of the dollar stablecoin MGUSD on the Stellar blockchain, which will be integrated into its official app, allowing users to hold dollar-denominated balances in self-custody wallets and make cross-border transfers through its global network.MGUSD is issued by Bridge, a subsidiary of Stripe, with M0 providing smart contracts and Fireblocks supplying wallet infrastructure. The product has been launched first in the United States and will subsequently be promoted globally to its approximately 60 million users and nearly 500,000 offline locations, serving as one of the core infrastructures of MoneyGram's cross-border payment network.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Stellar Development Foundation announced a partnership to implement DTC custody asset tokenization services on the Stellar network, with related assets scheduled to officially launch in the first half of 2027.DTCC had already received a no-action letter from the U.S. SEC in December 2025, allowing it to engage in real-world asset tokenization business. The two parties will focus on advancing the on-chain conversion of highly liquid assets such as Russell 1000 constituents, mainstream index ETFs, U.S. Treasury bonds, and various types of bonds.This collaboration relies on the Stellar network to build a compliant on-chain channel, marking an important advancement for traditional financial infrastructure to embrace blockchain, and will further broaden the application scenarios for real-world asset tokenization.

SpaceX officially announced that Fram2 mission commander and F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) will board Starship to execute the company's first crewed interplanetary flight mission.This mission is planned to last approximately two years, with the spacecraft flying out of the Earth-Moon system, passing by Mars before returning to Earth, marking an important milestone in commercial crewed deep space exploration. Wang Chun has previously funded and served as commander to complete the Fram2 polar orbit flight mission, becoming the first entrepreneur to fully fund and personally participate in two commercial crewed space missions.

According to the official Stellar blog, the Stellar Development Foundation and the Bermuda government announced that Bermuda will migrate key payment and financial service activities to the Stellar network to advance its plan to build the world's first fully on-chain national economy. Local residents will be able to receive salaries, pay merchants and government fees, and hold and transfer digital assets through a Stellar-based digital wallet. Bermuda government agencies plan to pilot payments based on stablecoins, and financial institutions will have access to tokenized tools, with related assets also usable for government payment scenarios such as social welfare distribution. Officials stated that this move is expected to reduce the current card transaction fees for local merchants, which can be as high as 3% to 5% or even 10%, improve payment efficiency, and strengthen digital financial infrastructure.

The Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda jointly announced that Bermuda will migrate key payment and financial services to the Stellar network, officially advancing the construction of a "fully on-chain national economy."The plan relies on Bermuda's 2018 Digital Asset Business Act regulatory framework, aiming to significantly reduce local merchants' payment processing costs from 3% - 5% or even higher.According to the plan, Bermuda residents will be able to receive salaries, merchant payments, pay government fees, and hold digital assets through digital wallets on the Stellar network in the future.The government will pilot stablecoin payments, and financial institutions will have access to tokenized tools, with related assets also being used for government payment scenarios such as social service disbursements.

According to official news, Gate will launch the Interstellar Exploration Program event from April 8 at 16:00 to April 23 at 16:00 (UTC+8). This event is aimed at users who are participating in trader follow trading for the first time, with a total prize pool of 66,000 USDT.During the event, users can sign up to receive a 30 USDT trading experience bonus, allowing them to experience follow trading at no cost. In addition, the platform will rank users based on the trading volume generated by following traders, with the top 100 users able to share a reward of 10,000 USDT proportionally; at the same time, users will be ranked based on the actual profit amount generated from follow trading, with the top 20 users able to share a reward of 6,000 USDT, with a maximum individual reward of 1,200 USDT.

According to Forbes, Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb will invest $1 billion from his approximately $3.9 billion cryptocurrency fortune through his nonprofit organization Astera Institute to develop AGI systems based on principles of the human brain. He has also committed an additional $600 million to the field of neuroscience.Astera Institute, located in Emeryville, is currently planning to record the neural activity patterns of mice performing tasks through brain-machine interfaces, and then translate the research findings into new AI architectures, with future subjects expanding to monkeys and humans. McCaleb believes that the current mainstream Transformer architecture lacks key elements such as planning, decision-making, and motivation, and that new directions need to be explored. AI based on principles of the human brain is more likely to be understood and controlled by humans.

According to Cointelegraph, M1X Global, behind the Marshall Islands UBI program, has completed a $3 million angel round of financing, with investors including former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan and Cumberland Labs CEO Tama Churchouse, among other figures in the crypto industry. The funds will be used to promote the expansion of USDM1 digital sovereign bonds into the institutional market.USDM1 was launched on the Stellar blockchain last December, but the IMF has warned that the project carries financial risks and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, believing that its returns are not proportional to its risks.

According to Finance Feeds, Societe Generale-FORGE, the crypto subsidiary of Societe Generale, has deployed its euro-pegged stablecoin EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) on the Stellar network, completing its multi-chain expansion plan first announced in 2025.EURCV was first launched on Ethereum in April 2023, later expanding to Solana and XRP Ledger, with a current market capitalization of approximately $45.2 million. The stablecoin has participated in several tokenized financial asset experiments, including the tokenized bond exchange and settlement pilot in the SWIFT test earlier this year.