CME Group's October 19, 2026 futures: What it means for the Stellar price

Stellar (XLM) is part of CME Group's planned launch of regulated futures on October 19, 2026, contracts that track an asset's price through a standardized derivatives market. The Stellar price is 0.18493 USD as of October 16, 2026, up 2.84 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.

CME Group sets October 19 futures date

CoinMarketCap reported that CME Group is preparing regulated Stellar futures for October 19, 2026, alongside contracts for Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap. The planned product gives market participants a listed contract for XLM exposure without requiring immediate delivery of the token.

The same report said Stellar's Protocol 28 upgrade went live on mainnet in September and that the network recorded throughput above 216 transactions per second over a 100-block window. Protocol upgrades change the software rules used by network validators, while throughput measures the number of transactions processed over time, according to CoinMarketCap.

94,972 active addresses marked October 2

Stellar recorded 94,972 daily active addresses on October 2, 2026, while decentralized exchanges on the network handled 3.38 million USD in daily volume, according to Blockonomi. An active address is a wallet that sent a transaction during the measurement window. The report also put Stellar's total value locked at 273 million USD on that date, a measure of assets deposited in decentralized applications.

Regulatory classification remains a separate consideration. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's October proposals listed Stellar as a digital commodity, but the proposals remained drafts that could change before final adoption, 247WallSt reported on October 7, 2026.

Stellar market data on October 16

According to Investing.com, Stellar trades at 0.18493 USD as of October 16, 2026, up 2.84 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 0.18501 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.18091 USD. Market capitalization is 6.47 billion USD, ranking Stellar No. 17, while 24-hour volume is 141.18 million USD and circulating supply is 35.17 billion XLM.

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