$XLM shot up roughly 18% on May 28 and ranked among the top trending assets on CoinGecko after @StellarOrg and @The_DTCC jointly announced plans to bring tokenized securities onto the Stellar
$XLM shot up roughly 18% on May 28 and ranked among the top trending assets on CoinGecko after @StellarOrg and @The_DTCC jointly announced plans to bring tokenized securities onto the Stellar public blockchain.
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced plans to enable the tokenization of DTC-custodied assets on the Stellar network, a configurable and public blockchain used across securities, payment, and remittance applications.DTC-custodied assets are scheduled to become available on Stellar in the first half of 2027.
DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation said they would jointly develop functionality for the full lifecycle of tokenized assets, including corporate actions and reporting, while also evaluating early use cases involving high-liquidity instruments like index constituents, ETFs, and US Treasuries.
Stellar becomes the second public blockchain to connect to the service after the Canton Network. The announcement advances DTCC's multi-chain strategy following the December 2025 SEC no-action letter that allowed DTC to tokenize custodied assets.
DTCC plans limited production trades in July 2026 ahead of a broader October 2026 service launch.Stellar will not be ready at that initial launch.
XLM rose 15.5% on May 28, outpacing every other asset in the CoinMarketCap top 100.Stellar recorded $815 million in 24-hour trading volume, an 816% increase, pushing the volume-to-market cap ratio to 14.26% based on its $5.72 billion market cap.
The rally followed news that the DTCC, which manages over $114 trillion in stocks, ETFs, and Treasuries, plans to work with the Stellar Development Foundation to tokenize DTC-held assets on Stellar's public blockchain. Despite the surge, $XLM remains well below its prior peak. XLM is down approximately 82% from its all-time high of $0.9381, set on January 4, 2018.
Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon said the DTCC integration bridges public blockchain networks to regulated market infrastructure, adding that Stellar's compliance-focused architecture and risk management capabilities were built to serve as a dependable rail for institutional-grade markets.
The real-world asset tokenization market has experienced significant growth in 2026, currently sitting at $33.88 billion in on-chain value, excluding stablecoins, more than tripling from around $12 billion in early 2025.
Sources:CoinDesk: DTCC taps Stellar for tokenized securities networkLedger Insights: DTC tokenization service to add Stellar as second public blockchainCrypto Briefing: DTCC targets 2027 rollout of tokenization service on Stellar
