Stellar hits a new DeFi milestone as total value locked (TVL) surpasses $273 million, highlighting growing activity across the network’s decentralized finance ecosystem.

The growth comes as Stellar expands beyond its traditional payments focus, with increasing adoption of stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), lending, liquidity and yield-generating applications.

The network’s DeFi expansion is also being supported by the growing use of stablecoins and tokenized assets, positioning Stellar as an increasingly important blockchain for real-world financial applications and PayFi.

The latest milestone signals that Stellar’s role in the crypto economy is evolving from a payments-focused network into a broader platform for DeFi, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.