Stellar (XLM) Lands Chainlink to Wake Up $3.5 Billion in Tokenized Real-World Assets

PRODUCTStellar (XLM) Lands Chainlinkto Wake Up $3.5 Billion inTokenized Real-World Assets29IMPORTANCECLOSED3NEWS MEDIA3PIECESOct 14, 2026 15:51blockboard.net

Stellar deployed Chainlink oracle infrastructure on its mainnet through the Chainlink Scale program. The Stellar Development Foundation said it will cover the operating costs to connect more than $3.54 billion in tokenized real-world assets that had been sitting largely unused on the network to decentralized markets. The move was presented as part of a push to strengthen Stellar’s role in structural DeFi and to compete with Ethereum in that area.

What this rests on

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Stellar was described as using Chainlink to wake up $3.5 billion in tokenized real-world assets on its network.
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The arrangement was framed as part of Stellar’s effort to challenge Ethereum in structural DeFi.
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Stellar put Chainlink oracle infrastructure on its mainnet through the Chainlink Scale program.
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The Stellar Development Foundation said it will pay the operational costs for connecting more than $3.54 billion in tokenized RWAs to decentralized markets.

What it means

Who it affects, what changes and what is still unconfirmed

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Stellar users and participants in tokenized real-world assets are the ones who would notice this first, because the network now has Chainlink oracle infrastructure on mainnet and the foundation said it will cover the operating costs to connect those assets to decentralized markets. That changes what can be connected on Stellar today, while the assets in question had previously sat largely unused on the network.

Market reaction

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Its angle: capabilities, potentially, competitive

Has this happened before?

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