Not every network can be both practical and blazing fast, but we manage ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Dan Doney, Managing Director and CTO of @The_DTCC explains that trust starts with your track record, and ours is airtight.
Are AI agents the next big users of Web3? ๐ค
In Ch. 7 of Interoperable, we dive into how embedded finance & stablecoins are powering the new machine-to-machine economy. With experts from @crossmint & @OpenZeppelin, we break down agentic commerce & security.
Don't miss it!
On Public Keys at the @NYSE, @EricBalchunas of @Bloomberg breaks down why $3B in BTC ETF outflows is just "noise" and why HYPE is the new "Hansel from Zoolander" of crypto ETFs. Plus, Stellar Development Foundation CEO @DenelleDixon on @The_DTCC tapping @StellarOrg as the first public blockchain for tokenized securities. Watch with @JennSanasie and @dave_lavalle.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Welcome to Public Keys
00:54 Jamie Dimon vs Brian Armstrong on Stablecoin Yields
03:21 Bitcoin ETFs Shed $2.97B in Outflows
05:50 BTC ETFs Post Worst Week Since January
06:50 Grayscale Amends HYPE ETF Filing
08:36 Bloomberg Intelligence's Eric Balchunas Joins Public Keys
09:39 Why BTC ETF Outflows Are Just 'Noise'
13:00 Wall Street's New BTC Products: Goldman, Morgan Stanley, iShares
15:33 HYPE Is the 'Hansel from Zoolander' of Crypto ETFs
17:57 Will SpaceX ETFs Pull Capital from Crypto?
20:42 10X: What Separates Pro Traders from Retail
22:25 Knowing Your 'Out': The Biggest Mistake in Margin Trading
25:06 Stellar Development Foundation's Denelle Dixon on the DTCC Tokenization Deal
26:14 Stellar Hits $3B in Tokenized Assets in Five Months
28:46 Can Blockchains Handle DTCC-Level Volume?
30:21 Digital Twins and the Issuer-Led Tokenization Question
31:50 Will One Blockchain Win the RWA Race?
๐ $XLM : The Power of Building Without Permission
In 2021, Franklin Templeton - a financial giant managing $1.5 trillion in assets - became the first major institution to launch a registered money market fund on blockchain.
Why did they move faster than fintech startups and competitors?
Because they didn't wait for permission.
While others were stuck in meetings, approvals, and endless planning cycles, Franklin Templeton was already building on Stellar, testing ideas, learning, and gaining real-world experience.
That early move unlocked something powerful:
โ Faster innovation
โ Faster learning
โ Access to solutions built by others
โ New adoption opportunities no one could predict
This is the true value of open networks.
A compliance feature needed for institutional adoption was developed by another company. Franklin Templeton benefited from it. Regulators approved it. The ecosystem advanced.
No coordination. No gatekeepers. No permission required.
That's the advantage of open infrastructure.
๐ The biggest opportunities often come from builders you've never met, solving problems you didn't know existed.
And that's exactly why the future of finance is being built on networks like Stellar.
โก๏ธ Build faster.
โก๏ธ Innovate freely.
โก๏ธ Capture the unexpected.
$XLM isn't just powering transactions - it's powering permissionless innovation.
๐ #Stellar #Blockchain #XLM #Crypto #DeFi
Europe just set a hard deadline. No extensions.
On July 1, MiCA's grace period ends across the EU. Any exchange serving EU clients without a license is breaking the law, facing fines up to โฌ5 million or 5% of turnover.
Estimates suggest 41% of crypto app downloads in Europe over the past year went to exchanges not on the approved register.
Millions of users, platforms that may have to pull out. One month to go.
Y si eres un marketer en busca de workshops y conversaciones reales con founders y builders que estรกn construyendo el futuro en LATAM...
Marketers in the Arena by @StellarOrg x @myosin_xyz te espera el 17 de junio ๐๏ธ
Asegura tu lugar aquรญ โ
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One of the strongest real-world use cases for stablecoins:
Getting money to people when the banking system is broken.
In Syria, hospital workers are being paid in $USDC through @StellarOrg Disbursement Platform + @DigiBankar, then cashing out through local hawala networks.
This is what utility looks like.
SCF #43 results are in. 29 projects secured $3.14M in XLM to build on Stellar, spanning DeFi, cross-border payments and RWAs. Funded teams range from @seevcash to ProofBridge to Talwex, showing the ecosystem's growth across all three tracks.
https://t.co/ggsaf4y75a
Proof beyond pilots.
@MoneyGram's launch of MGUSD on Stellar is an example of how blockchain can accelerate traditional financial infrastructure and deliver real results, globally.
DTCC clears $114t in securities annually and just picked stellar over canton network, the permissioned chain backed by goldman and BNY mellon. franklin templeton already had $459m on stellar. wisdomtree over $1b. the enterprise blockchain thesis that dominated 2017-2024 is dead. public rails won not because of ideology but because stellar's native compliance hooks, $0.00001 txn costs, and 3-5 second finality made the permissioned pitch irrelevant. russell 1000 stocks trading 24/7 on XLM by H1 2027. every bank that spent 7 years building on hyperledger and R3 corda is about to replatform.