BVNK Adds Stellar Network to Settlement Platform
Stellar (XLM)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
digitaltoday.co.kr reports that stablecoin payments firm BVNK has integrated the Stellar network into its settlement infrastructure. This addition allows customers to utilize Stellar-based routes across more than 130 markets. The move follows Mastercard's acquisition of BVNK for $1.8 billion, completed on August 3.
BVNK highlighted that Stellar processed $55.6 billion in payments during 2025 with 99.99 percent uptime. The network achieved an average settlement time of five seconds and transaction fees below one cent. Kimberly Meskell Julien noted that companies can expand settlement networks without managing individual chain connections.
Denelle Dixon stated that financial institutions rely on Stellar for cross-border transfers and stablecoin settlement. DeFiLlama data shows approximately $894 million in dollar-pegged stablecoins are currently circulating on the network.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for XLM, measured when this story was written up on 23 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
XLM is trading at $0.2162 with a 24-hour buy ratio of 51.2 percent, indicating a slight majority of buyers over sellers. Short-term pressure shows a 49.9 percent buy ratio in the last hour and 47.3 percent over four hours, suggesting immediate buying interest is fading compared to the daily average. The volume delta reflects this shift, dropping to negative $14,456 in the last hour and negative $307,611 over four hours. Over the past 24 hours, the volume delta remains positive at $844,795, with cumulative volume delta closing at $393,482. This indicates that while recent hourly flows are net selling, the broader daily trend still favors net buying.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.1% sits at the 31st percentile of the last 323 days, against a median of 50.7% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for XLM, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
The current 24-hour buy ratio of 51.2 percent is 2.0 percentage points higher than the seven-day average of 49.1 percent. Trading activity is elevated, with 24-hour spot volume reaching $35,895,079, which is 1.27 times the weekly average. Price has increased by 22.8 percent over the last eight days, though the total volume delta for that period is negative $3,121,616. Only two of the last seven days saw net buying, making this a relatively unusual period of price appreciation driven by volume rather than sustained directional flow.