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- Stellar Lumens (XLM) has reported that its network has so far processed 2 billion transactions in 2025.
- It has also sealed a high-profile collaboration with a US bank to test a custom stablecoin on the network.
Stellar Lumens boasts of a successful year as it processes $13 billion in Real World Asset (RWA) payment volume in 2025 to date. According to a post shared on X, Stellar disclosed that it has also processed about 2 billion transactions while maintaining a lifetime uptime of 99.99%.
Source: Stellar on X
Stellar Lumens Achievements So Far in 2025
Before its latest update, the company published a progress report for the third quarter of the year (Q3 2025), highlighting how the developer community has outpaced the broader market. Specifically, its full-time developers increased by 37% from January 2025. In that report, smart contract activities were said to have reached an all-time high of 1 million invocations per day. From the previous quarter, this represents a 700% increase.
According to the report, the market cap of Stellar’s RWA reached $562 million in the third quarter. At that time, cross-border RWA payments reached $5.4 billion. The network’s institutional footprint was also reported to have been expanded by major issuers like Franklin Templeton, Ondo, and WisdomTree.
Stellar Lumens’ Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector followed this trajectory with a 71% surge to $144 million. Compared to the previous year, this was a 3.6-fold increase. This significant growth was reported to have been influenced by projects like Beans and Blend, which increased accessibility for yield and credit to the everyday user. On top of this, Stellar connected to more than 95 networks with the integration of LayerZero, Near Intents, Ondo USDY, and others.
Apart from this, there have been some high-profile partnerships, including the one with US bank PWC, seeking to test custom stablecoin issuance on its network. Commenting on this, the president and chief growth officer at Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) highlighted that:
When you are doing mission-critical systems, when you are doing financial services, and you are moving consumers’ money, you need to make sure that your blockchain is going to be there. So we are very honored to have the confidence of US Bank and our partners at PWC. We take that confidence and that trust very, very seriously.
As also mentioned in our earlier news coverage, Stellar has integrated with Space and Time to support data-focused smart contracts. Additionally, it has renamed its “Go Repo” to fix existing clarity issues to streamline the developer experience, as discussed in our previous update.
