Stellar RWA Market Hits $4 Billion as XLM Trades Near $0.18
Stellar (XLM)
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Eugene Serbin
Cryptobriefing.com reports that institutional issuers have driven the value of tokenized real-world assets on Stellar to approximately $3.996 billion. This figure represents a 360% increase from the $868.8 million recorded at the end of 2025. The network briefly surpassed the $4 billion mark on August 3, 2026, before settling near that level by late August.
Spiko leads the market with $1.55 billion in tokenized assets, accounting for over a third of the total. The asset mix includes US Treasuries, private credit, money market funds, and non-US sovereign debt. Stellar holds a distinctive position in tokenized non-US government debt, with roughly $490 million held as of August 20.
Etherfuse contributes significantly to this category by bringing assets like Mexican CETES and Brazilian bonds on-chain. The Stellar Development Foundation emphasizes regulatory alignment and configurable privacy solutions for institutions. A key future development is the planned connection between Stellar and the DTCC’s tokenization service, expected in the first half of 2027. Concentration risk remains a factor, as five issuers dominate the market and Spiko alone holds a substantial portion.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for XLM, measured when this story was written up on 2 October 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
XLM is currently trading at $0.2191 on Binance spot markets. Short-term buying pressure appears balanced, with buy ratios of 50.1% over the last hour and 50.2% over the last four hours. However, this momentum has faded over the longer term, as the 24-hour buy ratio dropped to 47.6%. Volume delta reflects this shift, showing a slight positive inflow of $1,088 in the last hour and $18,161 over four hours. In contrast, the 24-hour volume delta is negative at -$1,025,022, indicating net selling over the day. Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) closed at -$846,029, confirming that sellers dominated the flow over the full 24-hour period. Net buying occurred in only 9 out of the 24 hours, suggesting inconsistent demand.
The latest daily buy ratio of 51.6% sits at the 64th percentile of the last 322 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 trading activity contrasts with the preceding week's data. Over the last eight days, XLM price changed by only +0.6%, while the 7-day average buy ratio was 49.6%. Today's 24-hour buy ratio of 47.6% is 2.0 percentage points lower than the weekly average. Volume activity is also subdued, with today's volume at 0.57 times the weekly average. Net buying occurred on only 3 of the past 7 days, compared to the current day's 9 hours of net buying. The 8-day total volume delta was -$1,010,685, similar to the daily outflow seen today. This suggests that today's trading pattern is consistent with the broader weekly trend of mild selling pressure and below-average volume.