DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation announced today plans to enable the tokenization of DTC‑custodied assets on the @StellarOrg network. This collaboration advances DTCC’s multi chain strategy and expands how traditional assets move across digital ecosystems.
DTC‑tokenized assets are expected to be made available on the Stellar network in the first half of 2027, supporting the evolution of a more open, interoperable, and efficient financial ecosystem.
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Today, Ascend is announcing a strategic partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (@StellarOrg), including a direct investment of US$1 million in Ascend.
The work is centered on a simple market question: what comes after tokenization?
Ascend is being built to help regulated real-world assets become usable as onchain credit collateral under explicit compliance controls. That includes permissioned vaults, continuous risk monitoring, and structured resolution for distressed assets.
This work extends Ascend’s compliance-first framework for regulated RWAs to the Stellar network and reflects a broader push toward making tokenized assets usable within public blockchain credit infrastructure.
Read the full announcement:
https://t.co/sO7tFIOJ57
.@AscendFi is solving a critical gap in the market by building credit infrastructure purpose-built for regulated, real-world assets.
This is how RWAs move from being issued onchain to being actively used across financial markets at scale.
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We released additional Smart Accounts improvements in the latest OpenZeppelin Contracts for @BuildOnStellar ↓
• Standardized key handling
• Clearer policy rules
• Size limits
Full changelog: https://t.co/RCU0d9uiLF
Today is 4.02 day.
Less than a year ago (May 6, 2025), we published the x402 whitepaper.
Since then, the protocol has:
• Processed 166M+ transactions
• Unlocked new monetization models for API, data, and other providers on the web.
• Enabled autonomous flows that were difficult to support with traditional account infrastructure
Today, we’re taking the next step.
x402 is moving to @linuxfoundation, and we are launching x402 Foundation - with broad, cross-industry collaboration & input to steward an open, neutral standard for payments over HTTP.
A big thank you to our amazing founding partners in this effort: @Adyen, @Awscloud , @AmericanExpress, @Ampersend_ai, @Circle, @Cloudflare, @Coinbase, @Fiserv, @Google, @KakaoPayCorp, @Mastercard, @merit_systems, @Microsoft, @Polygon, @PPRO_Payments, @Shopify, @SierraPlatform, @Solana , @Stripe, @Thirdweb, and @Visa.
Enrollment for the foundation is open if you - or your company - is interested in participating, please reach out!
New addition to the OpenZeppelin @StellarOrg toolkit: The Relayer Service💫
Build and scale Soroban apps without setting up servers, managing deployments or maintaining uptime.
Supporting:
• Soroban contract execution
• Sponsored transactions
• x402 agentic payments
New addition to the OpenZeppelin @StellarOrg toolkit: The Relayer Service💫
Build and scale Soroban apps without setting up servers, managing deployments or maintaining uptime.
Supporting:
• Soroban contract execution
• Sponsored transactions
• x402 agentic payments
Excited to see @StellarOrg bring x402 to their network!
Using x402 as a payment layer unlocks per-request API payments for AI agents on Stellar.
No accounts, API keys, or extra billing systems required.
Smart contracts are back in the spotlight in recent public dialogue.
We believe smart contracts are increasingly significant to the digital financial market infrastructure and should be designed, tested, governed, audited, and monitored with institutional-grade controls so automation can scale responsibly.
Learn more: https://t.co/IQB5OSm6DB