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Welcome to the Weekly thread! Ask anything (no question is too basic), share what you're building or reading, and chat about the week, price included. New here? Start with [Getting Started](https://redd.it/1xajpf8). 🚀 **Stay safe:** nobody legit will DM you offering wallet help, refunds or airdrops. Never share your secret key (it starts with S) or recovery phrase. [Stay Safe guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/wiki/stay-safe) # Last week on Stellar Last week was Meridian, SDF's annual conference in Lisbon. Every announcement, the HackMeridian winners and links to each source are in the [Meridian 2026 Megathread](https://reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/1xfjyc2/meridian_2026_megathread/). The biggest items: * **SDF previews Project Thruput.** A test version of Stellar that runs many transactions at once with no per-transaction fees, live on Futurenet only. No mainnet timeline yet. [SDF announcement](https://stellar.org/blog/foundation-news/introducing-stellar-project-thruput) * **DTCC plans to launch on Stellar first.** SDF says DTCC plans to bring tokenized DTC-held securities to Stellar first among public blockchains, aiming for the first half of 2027. [Report](https://crypto.news/dtcc-launches-tokenization-service-with-20-major-firms/) * **Securitize plans to integrate with Stellar.** The issuer of BlackRock's BUIDL fund will support tokenized assets on Stellar; details to come. [Release](https://stellar.org/press/securitize-to-integrate-with-stellar-network) * **SDF invests in Marketnode.** A strategic investment in an Asia-Pacific platform for tokenized funds and credit. [SDF release](https://stellar.org/press/stellar-development-foundation-makes-strategic-investment-in-marketnode-to-expand-institutional-tokenized-real-world-asset-adoption-in-asia-pacific) * **Curve launches on Stellar.** Curve's stablecoin swap pools are live on Stellar mainnet, its first deployment outside Ethereum-style networks. [Release](https://stellar.org/press/curve-brings-onchain-liquidity-infrastructure-to-the-stellar-network-in-its-first-native-non-evm-integration) * **HackMeridian winners.** Nest won the Genesis track, Alloy won the Scale track, and TroqPay took 2nd in Scale. [Announcement](https://x.com/BuildOnStellar/status/2115869981640429959) For the rest of the week, read Lumen Loop's [Stellar Weekly Roundup](https://lumenloop.com/research/stellar-weekly-roundup-week-oct-30-2026), an independent Stellar news site. # Coming up this week * **Tue Nov 3:** Validators vote on the Bell upgrade (Protocol 30) on testnet. Developers should be on the updated SDKs. [Upgrade guide](https://stellar.org/blog/developers/bell-protocol-30-upgrade-guide) * **Thu Nov 5:** Stellar Developers Meeting, held weekly on Discord. [Notes and recordings](https://developers.stellar.org/meetings) **Next deadlines:** SCF #46 submissions close Nov 8 · Bell mainnet vote Nov 23 # Stellar by the numbers **Last week: Sun Oct 25 to Sat Oct 31 (UTC).** Market changes compare with the week before. **Market** * **XLM price:** $0.169 (up 0.2% over 7 days) · [CoinGecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/stellar) * **XLM traded during the week:** $810M (up 2.9%) · [CoinGecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/stellar/historical_data) **Network** (totals for the week) · [Live on SDF's dashboard](https://dashboard.stellar.org/) * **Successful transactions:** 29.1M (29,051,477) * **Operations (payments, trades and other actions):** 58M (57,525,442) * **Average time per ledger:** 5.0 seconds **Assets and DeFi** * **Tokenized real-world assets:** $3.92B (up 12.9% over the last 30 days) · [rwa.xyz](https://app.rwa.xyz/networks/stellar) * **Stablecoins:** $354M (down 19.2% over 7 days) · [DefiLlama](https://defillama.com/stablecoins/Stellar) * **DeFi value locked:** $223M (down 1.2% over 7 days) · [DefiLlama](https://defillama.com/chain/stellar) Network figures are our own count of every ledger in the week, from Stellar's public Horizon API. Data only, not financial advice. [CoinMarketCap](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stellar/) · [All public dashboards](https://developers.stellar.org/docs/data/analytics/public-dashboards) # Community standards * **Be respectful.** Debate ideas, not people. No personal attacks. * **Questions are welcome.** If you answer, link a source when you can. * **No shilling.** No referral links, manipulation or coordinated brigading. * **Builders:** share progress here anytime. Launches and big updates get their own post. * **See a problem? Report it.** Don't escalate disputes in the thread. Announcing reports or predicting bans can lead to a ban. r/Stellar *is community-run and not run by the Stellar Development Foundation. Third-party links are not endorsements. Spot a mistake?* [*Message the mods*](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/Stellar)*.*

TLDR: MetaMask shipped Stellar as a default network and Curve Finance launched StableSwap on Stellar mainnet at Meridian 2026 in Lisbon, where SDF also unveiled Project Thruput, an experimental execution model benchmarked at 7 million payments per second, and opened a discussion on redesigning XLM utility. Spiko's SAFO became the world's largest tokenized fund at $2.38 billion as Stellar's tokenized asset base approached $5 billion.

Me when none of the shitcoins i had years ago are in this list … nevermind i was on a different exchange but lmao those were all such shit shitcoins except for XLM, that was nice to use to move assets around.

There are projects and layers to Ethereum and Solana, XLM, Cosmos Atoms, and others that make them different than Bitcoin and Dogecoin. The only reason I named Bitcoin is because it has a place as a first mover. Litecoin is better than bitcoin but it was always a second mover so it is silver compared to gold. I don’t think you fully understand what Ethereum is compared to those other “coins”. Ethereum is another layer and multipurpose. Banks and there are structures Stockmarket are using it and it is only going to grow. So it serves a purpose and has functionality. Anyways…yeah some coins that are built on Ethereum only have purposes within their respective networks or as what you may call hype and speculation. So to your point - yeah sure you can classify some coins as only valuable as the hype…but that’s can be said about many things. Baseball cards have value right? Why? Are collectibles scams? Is art scams? Of course not. These items have value. So one’s man’s treasure may be another man’s garbage.

I put $100 into XLM and am finally selling. It’s worth $30 now 💀