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- Stellar Lumens (XLM) reported that its network has processed 2 billion transactions so far through 2025.
- It also signed a high-profile partnership with a US bank to test a custom stablecoin on the network.
Stellar Lumens boasts a successful year, processing $13 billion in real world assets (RWA) payment volume to date in 2025. According to a post shared on X, Stellar also revealed that it has processed around 2 billion transactions while maintaining a lifetime uptime of 99.99%.
Source: Stella on X
Stellar Lumens achievements so far in 2025
Ahead of the latest update, the company released its progress report for the third quarter of this year (Q3 2025), highlighting how its developer community is outperforming the overall market. Specifically, full-time developers have increased by 37% since January 2025. The report states that smart contract activity has reached an all-time high of 1 million calls per day. Compared to the previous quarter, this represents a 700% increase.
According to the report, Stellar RWA’s market capitalization reached $562 million in the third quarter. At that time, cross-border RWA payments amounted to $5.4 billion. It was also reported that the network’s organizational size has been expanded by major publishers such as Franklin Templeton, Ondo, and WisdomTree.
Stellar Lumens’ decentralized finance (DeFi) division followed suit, increasing 71% to $144 million. This was 3.6 times higher than the previous year. This significant growth was reportedly influenced by projects like Beans and Blend, which improved earnings and access to credit for everyday users. In addition to this, Stellar has integrated LayerZero, Near Intents, Ondo USDY, and more to connect to over 95 networks.
Separately, there have been several high-profile partnerships aimed at testing custom stablecoin issuance on the network, including one with US bank PWC. On this, the President and Chief Growth Officer of Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) emphasized:
When you’re running mission-critical systems, when you’re running financial services, when you’re moving consumer money, you need to make sure the blockchain is there. That’s why we’re so honored to have the trust of our partners at US Bank and PWC. We take that confidence and trust very seriously.
As mentioned in a previous news article, Stellar integrates with Space and Time to support data-centric smart contracts. Additionally, as explained in the previous update, the name “Go Repo” has been changed to fix existing clarity issues to streamline the developer experience.