🚨You are not ready for what’s coming to stellar:native 🚨
I spent a lot of time putting this together.
Read it to the end. It’s worth it.
Meridian 2026 is bringing some of the people who already move securities, bank money, custody and global payments into the same room.
October 28–29 in Lisbon could end up being one of the most important Stellar events we’ve seen.
I’m not saying that because the speaker list has famous names.
Look at what their organizations are already doing.
Nadine Chakar is Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets.
DTCC processed roughly $4.728 quadrillion of transactions in 2025.
Just think about the scale of the financial machinery she represents.
And she isn’t showing up at Meridian to hear Stellar explain what blockchain is.
DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation have already announced that DTC’s Tokenization Service will connect directly to the Stellar public blockchain, with availability expected in the first half of 2027.
The assets being evaluated are serious:
-Russell 1000 stocks.
-Major-index ETFs.
-U.S. Treasury bills.
-Treasury notes.
-Treasury bonds.
That changes the conversation completely.
We’ve spent years hearing people talk about traditional securities eventually moving onchain.
DTCC is actually building the connection.
Nadine Chakar has already said Stellar’s history with institutional assets, compliance capabilities, throughput and low-cost operation mattered during DTCC’s evaluation.
And DTCC’s tokenization work has involved feedback from more than 50 major financial firms, including BlackRock, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Charles Schwab, Citi, Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Franklin Templeton and Fireblocks.
So when I see DTCC at Meridian, I’m thinking far beyond a conference panel.
I’m thinking about what Stellar could look like once DTC-custodied assets begin reaching public blockchain infrastructure.
A traditional security can move from the old financial system into a digital environment where ownership, settlement, liquidity and collateral can become much more flexible.
DTCC itself talks about faster settlement, better asset mobility, extended trading hours, capital efficiency and collateral mobility.
Those words matter.
A tokenized Treasury sitting on Stellar doesn’t have to remain a static token sitting in a wallet.
It can potentially move.
It can be pledged.
It can settle.
It can interact with other digital assets.
It can become useful capital.
And then look at Jamie Walker, Head of Digital Assets and Money Movement at U.S. Bank.
U.S. Bank has already completed a live transaction using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed bank stablecoin.
They used Stellar.
They moved money between U.S. Bank entities in North America and Europe.
And they tested the things a real regulated bank actually needs:
minting, payments, redemption, freezing, clawback, finance integration, risk controls, compliance, operations.
That goes way beyond sending a stablecoin between two wallets.
A bank needs to know it can control the asset.
A bank needs to know compliance teams can work with it.
A bank needs to know finance and operations can reconcile it.
U.S. Bank tested those pieces.
And it is already exploring liquidity management, collateral mobility and cross-border treasury operations on Stellar.
Now picture what happens when those two worlds meet.
DTCC brings tokenized securities.
U.S. Bank brings digital bank money.
Both connect to Stellar.
A tokenized Treasury can potentially sit beside a bank-issued digital dollar.
A tokenized ETF can sit beside digital cash.
A tokenized stock can sit beside regulated settlement money.
That is a much bigger financial system than the old idea of Stellar simply moving cheap payments from one person to another.
Stellar can start handling both sides of finance:
the asset
and the money used to settle the asset.
And Stellar already has proof that regulated investment products can live there.
Franklin Templeton launched its Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund on Stellar years ago.
Around $654 million of BENJI AUM now sits on Stellar.
Across chains, the BENJI ecosystem has grown to roughly $2 billion.
And BENJI has evolved.
Peer-to-peer share transfers.
- Intraday yield.
- 24/7 access.
- Near-instant settlement.
More than $211 million of cumulative peer-to-peer transfer volume.
That matters to me because Franklin already demonstrated something very important:
A regulated U.S. financial product can operate using a public blockchain as part of its official ownership and transaction infrastructure.
So Stellar doesn’t have to prove the concept from zero.
Franklin already did it.
Now DTCC is moving toward the network.
Now U.S. Bank has bank money on the network.
Now Stellar says it has roughly $4 billion in tokenized RWAs, up around 360% during 2026.
And the network already hosts tokenized assets associated with Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree and ABN AMRO.
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