José Fernández da Ponte introduces Stellar's Market Development team — senior leaders driving institutional adoption across Latin America, Brazil, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and APAC.

Bringing Stellar to the Regions That Matter

Stellar’s Q1 2026 quarterly update: $2B+ in onchain RWAs, $5.5B in payment volume, 86% developer growth, and key protocol upgrades across privacy, agentic payments, and security.

Q1 2026: Execution at network scale

Protocol 26 "Yardstick" brings precision to Stellar: a governed onchain freeze mechanism (CAP-77), checked 256-bit arithmetic, precise TTL control, and more. Live on mainnet May 6, 2026.

Yardstick, Stellar Protocol 26

Learn how Soroban on Stellar enables flexible, detachable authorization with auth trees, sponsored transactions, smart wallets, and composable DeFi contracts.

Stellar’s composable auth model

Denelle Dixon's seventh anniversary reflection on Stellar's bet that traditional finance had to be part of the work, not the target—and what comes next.

Seven years to meet this moment

CAP-77 introduces the first protocol-native, onchain account freeze mechanism on a major L1 blockchain—executed through validator consensus, auditable, and reversible.

Quorum Freeze (CAP-77): A Governed, Onchain Incident Response on Stellar

This guide is designed to help businesses and developers prepare for Yardstick, Protocol 26, with key dates, release information, a changelog, and more.

Stellar Yardstick, Protocol 26 Upgrade Guide

Stellar is now a settlement layer for x402, the protocol that lets AI agents pay for things on the internet.

x402 on Stellar: unlocking payments for the new agent economy

Stellar's 2025 Year in Review: $55.6B in payment volume, $1B+ in real-world assets onchain, and major deployments from Franklin Templeton, PayPal, Visa, and more.

End of Year 2025 Report – Execution at Scale

This week at Davos, representatives from traditional payment networks and open blockchain protocols shared a stage—not to debate replacement, but to discuss coordination.

The interoperability imperative: how traditional payment networks and open protocols will (finally) work together

In pursuit of that mission, in 2019 the SDF adopted a formal mandate to use the XLM entrusted to us to build, promote, and strengthen the Stellar network and ecosystem. That core mandate hasn't changed. Six years later, the tools, strategies, and focus areas necessary to fulfill it have evolved significantly as Stellar's real-world usage has grown. Today, we're updating our mandate framework to reflect how we're allocating resources in 2025 and beyond.

An Updated Mandate for a Growing Stellar Ecosystem

Explore the executive summary detailing the root cause of a network incident, its technical terms, and lessons learned to prevent future bugs.

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We’re excited to unveil the new look and feel for SDF. We thought it was time to spotlight what really matters to us – the people building on the network and all the people we are building for.

Down to Earth: A Brand to Match Our Mission

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