- DTCC plans to integrate DTC-tokenized RWAs on-chain by the first half of 2027, potentially triggering trillions of dollars in transaction flows on Stellar.
Stellar (XLM) continues its momentum in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and it doesn’t appear to be hitting the brakes anytime soon.
On Wednesday, the Stellar Development Foundation, the team supporting the open-source, decentralized Stellar blockchain, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, jointly announced their strategic partnership.
Stellar and DTCC Strategic Partnership
The cooperation focuses on integrating Depository Trust Company (DTC)-tokenized assets on-chain. The Stellar network will facilitate DTC’s RWA integration on-chain by the first half of 2027.
The latest development builds upon the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) No-action Letter to the DTC in December 2025. The notice guarantees that the regulator will not recommend any enforcement action relative to the latter’s participation in the burgeoning RWA tokenization ecosystem.
Why It Matters
For Stellar, the move will allow market participants to leverage traditional assets in a digital ecosystem. It unlocks faster settlement times, cutting the entire transfer process from days to minutes.
Additionally, they benefit from the network’s very cheap transaction fees, starting at merely 0.00001 XLM. These are all thanks to the chain’s 1,000 transactions per second (tps) baseline throughput, which Stellar plans to raise up to 5,000 tps in the near term.
Fundamentally, Stellar gains a major institutional stamp of approval from the collaboration with DTCC, an institution considered the backbone of global capital markets. It leads to greater confidence for other institutions to follow suit, ultimately unlocking higher demand for Stellar’s infrastructure and driving a more robust activity for XLM-powered transactions.
Harvey L., founder of Tokenization Insight, highlighted that DTCC is the primary Central Securities Depository (CSD) of the US public equities market. Crunching the numbers, their market capitalization has already surpassed $77 trillion with an estimated $1 in shares traded daily. Even a mere fraction of that flowing in Stellar could dramatically boost XLM’s utility as the chain’s gas token.
Moreover, the DTC connectivity means tokenized securities from Stellar will be fungible with the company’s infrastructure. Hence, they can synchronize ownership records directly with the traditional market, ensure smooth flow of corporate actions, greatly mitigate settlement fragmentation, and bring tokenized shares closer to institutionally acceptable market instruments.
The Tokenization Insight founder claimed that the elements he mentioned are currently the biggest structural challenges facing third-party tokenized equity models, particularly those from Robinhood or xStocks.
Furthermore, Harvey L. emphasized that the direct DTCC-linked interoperability eliminates third-party dependencies and risks, thereby streamlining the asset management pipeline. Overall, it bridges the gap between off-chain ownership records and on-chain liquidity.
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