By Allium Research

A growing number of regulated financial institutions — Franklin Templeton, PayPal, WisdomTree, MoneyGram — have chosen the Stellar network for settlement, tokenized assets, and global payments. This report examines the Stellar network's settlement efficiency, institutional asset issuance, and protocol-native compliance primitives (data through February 2026) for payment networks, asset managers, fintech builders, and institutions evaluating the tokenized asset and settlement opportunity on Stellar.

‍What's inside:

1. Cross-border stablecoin settlement — Volume trends, entity-adjusted activity, and capital velocity signals across 7 stablecoins and 4 fiat currencies.
2. Institutional treasury & yield — How Stellar's native DEX, Blend Protocol, and bridge infrastructure support 24/7 treasury management with onchain yield.
3. Compliance infrastructure — Protocol-native freeze, clawback, and authorization controls. How Stellar meets regulatory requirements at the protocol level.
4. Tokenized real-world assets — $1.1B+ in tokenized government securities, money market funds, and commodities from Franklin Templeton, Spiko, WisdomTree, and Etherfuse.
5. Developer & technical infrastructure — Stellar smart contract growth
6. Strategic outlook — What the data signals for regulated asset issuance, government adoption, and Stellar's positioning as settlement infrastructure.