Where blockchain meets the real world

Where blockchain meets
global payments
tokenization
DeFi
the real world

Stellar powers borderless payments, asset tokenization, and DeFi solutions for builders, institutions, and innovators worldwide.

For devs & builders

Ship faster with comprehensive tools and documentation for building apps. Discover the developer resources in the ecosystem to gain a fundamental understanding of the stack, get support from the community, and explore programs to accelerate onboarding.

For financial institutions

Join leading institutions building the future of finance on Stellar. Launch payment and investment solutions that scale globally, with enterprise-grade security and compliance tools.

For fintechs & wallets

Build and launch modern financial products on Stellar — enable fast and low-cost payments, connect users to global assets, and expand your offerings with DeFi.

The Latest

Onchain updates

Discover the latest launches, ecosystem milestones, and developer updates, all happening on Stellar right now.

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Molly Karcher

Reconciling Stellar Events

Stellar Core v24.1.0 ensures complete network history replay from genesis, capturing all token movements and fulfilling Stellar Events' original…

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Bri Wylde

SCF Spotlight: Pavel Matveev of COCA

The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open-application grants program that provides the support, community, and funding for founders to launch their…

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Stellar Development Foundation

State archival issue post-mortem

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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Stellar Development Foundation

Stellar Development Foundation Joins Blockchain Payments Consortium as Founding Member

Stellar Development Foundation and other entities representing $10 Trillion in annual stablecoin volume form Blockchain Payments Consortium to…

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Mel Higgins

Q3 2025: Scaling What Works. Growing Stronger.

Stellar’s Q3 2025 webinar spotlights record growth in RWAs, DeFi, and developer activity — plus enterprise milestones from Visa, MoneyGram, PayPal’s…

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Kate Montgomery

Stellar to join Chainlink Scale and adopt Data Feeds, Data Streams, and CCIP to Power Next-Gen DeFi Applications

Stellar, the open, permissionless blockchain with a 10-year track record of powering real-world financial applications, has announced plans to join…

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Stellar is a decentralized, public blockchain that gives anyone the tools to create experiences that are more like cash than crypto. The network is faster, cheaper, and far more energy-efficient than most blockchain-based systems.

Global Reach

90

+

Countries with cash-to-crypto ramps supported

TVL

$107M

and counting

Settlement time

9.5

Seconds

*in the last 30 days

$0.0007816

Average cost of a Stellar transaction

See Stellar in action

Real use cases, live today

From global remittances to tokenizing treasuries, see how organizations use Stellar to deliver real-world financial services.

Stellar for payments

Scale your payments globally and expand to new markets with 24/7 settlement on the Stellar network.

Stellar for asset tokenization

Tokenize real-world value on the network built for asset issuance.

Where defi meets the real world

Build the future of financial access on an unmatched network of real-world utility and scalable decentralized finance.

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Developer grants

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