TL;DR:
Wall Street’s most important clearinghouse chose Stellar as infrastructure to tokenize traditional market securities, and the market responded with a bullish violence few had anticipated. XLM, the network’s native token, was trading around $0.1881 at the time of writing, registering a 24.4% gain over the last 24 hours and a trading volume exceeding $1.12 billion, representing a 1,092% increase from the previous day, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the entity acting as the central clearinghouse of the U.S. market and overseeing more than $114 trillion in assets, announced it will connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar network by 2027. This decision is based on a no-action letter issued by the SEC in December 2025, which authorizes the DTC to implement and operate a service to tokenize assets held in custody within its system. The proposed architecture would allow market participants to use traditional assets within a digital ecosystem, maintaining the same protections, rights, and safeguards that apply to conventionally custodied securities.
The reaction from traders was immediate. XLM was trading around $0.146 before the announcement and climbed to $0.17 within hours, breaking through the 50-day moving average that had acted as resistance for weeks. The rally then continued and the token reached an intraday high of $0.18, a level not seen since April 22.
XLM’s surge occurred despite adverse market conditions. According to CoinGlass data, more than $930 million in positions were liquidated during the period, with long positions accounting for approximately $870 million of the total and short positions for just $59 million. The token’s market cap exceeded $6.3 billion, consolidating Stellar as one of the most closely watched projects within the real-world asset tokenization market.
