Stellar is closing in on 24 billion total transactions processed on its network, a cumulative milestone that Bitrue flagged to its users while pointing them toward XLM trading on the exchange. The figure reflects the network's full history rather than a single period, but it lands amid a broader run of growth metrics for Stellar this year.
The Stellar Development Foundation's most recent quarterly report showed payment volume on the network hitting $5.5 billion, an all-time high and up 72% year-over-year, with transaction velocity rising 75% over the same stretch. Average fees have stayed near $0.0001 per transaction — about a hundredth of a cent — which is part of what has made Stellar a persistent choice for payment-focused and remittance use cases rather than general-purpose smart contract activity.
Real-World Assets Are Doing Much of the Work
A large share of that growth is coming from tokenized real-world assets rather than payments alone. Stellar's RWA market cap, excluding stablecoins, climbed 91% quarter-over-quarter earlier this year, rising from roughly $796 million at the end of 2025 to $1.52 billion, before crossing $2 billion in April and settling near $2.09 billion more recently. Developer activity on the network grew 86% year-over-year over the same period, and Stellar-based XLM futures debuted on CME Group in February 2026, giving institutional traders a regulated way to get exposure to the asset for the first time.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Network Milestones
Stellar's climb toward 24 billion cumulative transactions is one of several network-scale milestones crypto platforms have highlighted this year as a way to argue their chains are handling genuine usage rather than speculative volume alone — Solana's own recent push past 1 billion weekly transactions made a similar case for sustained, real-world throughput on its network. For Stellar, the combination of cumulative transaction count, RWA growth and a new CME futures listing points to a network increasingly positioning itself around institutional payments and tokenized assets rather than retail trading volume.
