Bell upgrade sets November 23 vote: What it means for the Stellar price

Published on 10/22/2026 at 07:11 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Stellar's testnet vote is set for November 3. Stellar price stands at 0.17804 USD on October 22, 2026, down 1.04 percent.

Network upgrades and tokenization

Stellar validators are scheduled to vote on Protocol 30 on November 23, 2026.
The Stellar network supports more than 4 billion USD in tokenized real-world assets, according to an October 14, 2026 update.
The Stellar price stands at 0.17804 USD as of October 22, 2026, 1.04 percent below the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026.
DeFi activity reached 273 million USD in total value locked on October 2, 2026.

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Stellar (XLM) is set for a November 23, 2026, validator vote on Bell, its proposed Protocol 30 upgrade, according to TokenPost. The Stellar price stands at 0.17804 USD as of October 22, 2026, down 1.04 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Protocol 30 adds three network changes

TokenPost reported on October 21, 2026, that Bell would face a testnet vote on November 3, 2026, followed by a mainnet validator vote on November 23, 2026, at 17:00 UTC. The proposal would let smart contracts verify ML-DSA post-quantum signatures, add contract addresses with customer identifiers and record ledger close times in milliseconds.

The changes are aimed at smart-account and payment infrastructure. According to TokenPost, developers and operators using Stellar software development kits need to update them before the votes because older versions may fail to read Protocol 30 ledgers. The same report said network transaction signatures would continue to use Ed25519, so Bell would not make the entire network post-quantum.

Stellar tokenization reaches 4 billion USD

Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams went live on Stellar on October 14, 2026, according to the Stellar Development Foundation. The foundation said the network supports more than 4 billion USD in tokenized real-world assets, a term for blockchain-based representations of assets such as funds and other financial instruments.

Network activity also had a dated DeFi measure. Blockonomi reported that Stellar's DeFi total value locked reached 273 million USD on October 2, 2026, while daily active addresses totaled 94,972. The figures measure assets held in decentralized applications and addresses active during the measurement period, rather than the market value of XLM.

XLM trades at 0.17804 USD

The Stellar price is 0.17804 USD as of October 22, 2026, down 1.04 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026, according to Investing.com. The daily high is 0.17871 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.17662 USD. Market capitalization is 6.27 billion USD, ranking Stellar 17th, while 24-hour volume is 106.68 million USD. Circulating supply is 35.20 billion XLM.