Chainlink integration on October 14: What it means for the Stellar price

Published on 10/24/2026 at 13:01 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Bell's testnet vote is set for November 3, 2026. The Stellar price is 0.17016 USD as of October 24, 2026, down 4.34 percent.

Upgrades and network data

On October 14, Chainlink data services went live on Stellar's mainnet for a tokenized asset ecosystem valued at 3.54 billion USD.
Validators are scheduled to vote on Bell's testnet changes on November 3, 2026.
The Stellar price stands at 0.17016 USD as of October 24, 2026, 4.34 percent below the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026.
Stellar processed 12 million transactions on October 11 at an average fee of 0.00012 USD.

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Stellar (XLM) integrated Chainlink's data infrastructure on October 14, opening access to market data for decentralized finance applications across a tokenized asset ecosystem valued at 3.54 billion USD, according to CryptoNews. The Stellar price is 0.17016 USD as of October 24, 2026, down 4.34 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Chainlink reached Stellar on October 14

Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams are oracle services that supply external market information to blockchain applications. CryptoNews reported on October 14 that the services had launched on Stellar's mainnet and that the Stellar Development Foundation had taken over the operating costs under Chainlink's Scale program. The report said the integration is intended for lending, trading, stablecoins and tokenized equities, with the 3.54 billion USD ecosystem figure attributed to real-world assets on Stellar.

The deployment gives developers access to feeds for assets including BTC, ETH, LINK, XLM and USDC, according to the Chainlink Documentation. The documentation lists Stellar support for Data Feeds and identifies XLM/USD among the available feeds.

Bell schedules votes for November 3 and November 23

Stellar's Bell upgrade, also called Protocol 30, has a testnet vote scheduled for November 3, 2026, at 1700 UTC and a mainnet vote scheduled for November 23, 2026, at 1700 UTC, according to the Stellar Development Foundation. The proposal includes multiplexed contract addresses, verification of post-quantum signatures in smart contracts and millisecond ledger timing. A vote is required before the proposed changes can take effect.

The network also recorded 12 million transactions on October 11 at an average fee of 0.00012 USD, with throughput of 139.15 transactions per second, according to Coinotag. A separate report by CryptoTicker noted that Bell's post-quantum signature feature applies to smart contracts while ordinary network transaction signatures remain Ed25519.

XLM market data on October 24

The Stellar price stands at 0.17016 USD as of October 24, 2026, according to Investing.com. It is down 4.34 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 23, 2026. The daily high is 0.17397 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.16990 USD. Market capitalization is 6.00 billion USD, ranking Stellar 16th, while 24-hour volume is 116.23 million USD. Circulating supply is 35.23 billion XLM.