The ISO 20022-compliant Stellar Lumens (XLM) blockchain finished 2025 with a massive 172% upswing in Real World Assets (RWA) related market cap. Stellar chain’s total value locked has also sparked up 95% to reach $211 million, the latest quarterly from the network reveals. Numbers Don’t Lie: XLM Aligns With Top 2026 Trend Shipping over 800 active decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, Stellar Lumens (XLM) also saw a resurgence in developer activity. Compared to last year, there’s 31% more developers working on XLM-related apps. Thinking globally, this makes Stellar (XLM) three times quicker than the industry average, uniting over 10 million


Bitcoin flipped volatile as CPI data came in lower than expected, but failed to follow stocks as they hit fresh all-time highs on Fed rate-cut optimism. Key points:Bitcoin price action whipsaws around a cooler-than-expected CPI print.Optimism on risk assets increases, with the Federal Reserve seen continuing interest-rate cuts through 2026.Read more
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