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SUI has taken the top spot in domestic interest index, surpassing WLD with a domestic trading volume share of 5.51%. ONDO, STX, and WLD showed a strong domestic concentration, while BNB and USDT had a higher proportion of overseas trading. POL exhibited the highest Kimchi premium.
Strategy holds 840,000 Bitcoin. Tempo stablecoin market cap increases. SEC approves Bitcoin/Ethereum futures products. IMF disburses El Salvador loan. Binance suspends overseas deposits in Brazil. FOMC raises interest rates. Base chain attack damage. Tokenized credit market size decreases. Stellar Lumens RWA increases. Greenfield sues Safe Foundation.
Kitto@kitto
Crypto Trading
Looking at the crypto market lately, it feels like two completely different worlds are unfolding. On one side, institutional capital is paving a safe road for growth, while the other is in chaos due to a series of security breaches.
Most notably, Stellar is dominating in RWA. It is receiving significant institutional preference, to the point where it accounts for a large portion of daily RWA growth. On the other hand, the L2 and DeFi ecosystems, where retail investors flock, look rather unstable. Following a $6 million asset theft from a Base ecosystem vault, Zano Protocol went as far as performing an extreme rollback—reverting an entire month of the blockchain—to resolve a severe inflation bug.
Ultimately, the market seems to be polarizing rapidly into 'safe institutional RWA' and 'high-risk DeFi.' Institutional capital is taking shelter in secure, regulated infrastructure, while individuals continue to face frequent security risks. This is quite an interesting gap, don't you think? It'll be worth watching closely to see how the divide between these two camps narrows over time haha.
The Stellar Lumens network is gaining attention as it accounted for 37% of the increase in market capitalization of real-world assets (RWA) among the top 10 blockchain networks in the last 24 hours. This figure represents the daily increase and differs from the overall market share.
Stellar (XLM) leads the real-world asset tokenization market, capturing 37% of the $96.5M daily inflow. Its ecosystem attracts significant institutional capital due to low costs and regulatory compliance.
Stellar's DeFi TVL reached an all-time high of nearly $273 million, indicating significant growth in capital deployment and user participation. The network also saw increased on-chain activity and active addresses nearing 100,000.
Stellar (XLM) is consolidating near $0.22 within a long-term symmetrical triangle. A breakout above $0.25 could target $0.30, supported by rising derivatives and volume. Failure to break resistance may lead to a drop to $0.20.
Bitcoin surpassed $87,000 following the release of US employment data, but fell below $84,000 within hours. While major altcoins showed weakness, Quant and Midnight saw gains. Approximately $600 million in liquidations occurred during the sharp decline.
In the domestic cryptocurrency market, WLD, XRP, and ONDO are attracting attention with higher trading volumes compared to overseas. WLD, in particular, had a domestic share 23.9 times higher than overseas. In contrast, HYPE and BNB recorded more active trading volumes overseas. CC showed the highest Kimchi premium, while some stocks showed a negative premium.
As of August 29, 2026, the total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on the Stellar network has reached $3.996 billion. The top 5 issuers hold 93% of this total, with Securitize leading at $1.55 billion. The DTCC plans to tokenize its DTC-custodied assets in the first half of 2027, making them available on the Stellar network.
In the domestic cryptocurrency market, WLD, STX, and ONDO showed significantly higher domestic trading volumes compared to overseas. STX, in particular, had a domestic ratio 24 times higher than overseas. Conversely, BNB, USDC, and USDT had higher overseas trading ratios. SUI showed the highest Kimchi premium, while some other coins exhibited a negative premium.
The market size of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) was reported differently as $46.2 billion to $46.3 billion and $38.61 billion, depending on the aggregation method. Ethereum holds the largest share in the RWA market, and a McKinsey report projects the market size to reach up to $4 trillion by 2030.
Altcoin exchange deposits surged 160% in two weeks, signaling potential profit-taking after September's rally. NEAR, XLM, and XRP show signs of selling pressure despite recent gains, with broader market indicators also suggesting caution.
In the domestic cryptocurrency market, WLD has surpassed XLM to become the most watched coin, ranking first in interest. ONDO, WLD, STX, and XLM showed a domestic trading volume more than 14 times higher than the global average. Conversely, USD1, HYPE, and BNB had higher trading volumes internationally. Recently, trading volumes for LIT, JST, and BTC have increased, while CC, SUI, and HBAR exhibited high Kimchi premiums.
Bithumb will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals of XLM and withdrawals of AQUA starting at 7 PM today to support the Stellar Lumens (XLM) network upgrade. Deposits and withdrawals will be resumed sequentially after the upgrade is completed.
While BTC, ETH, and XRP are stagnant, speculative capital is flowing into institutional-focused altcoins like Quant, The Graph, and Chainlink, driven by infrastructure development and adoption by major financial institutions.
Stellar Lumens mainnet has implemented the Protocol 28 'Adapter' upgrade, enabling changes to smart contract data structures and simultaneous upgrades of multiple contracts. This impacts developers, requiring data migration and compatibility verification.
Stellar's Soroban SDK has been upgraded to v28, supporting Protocol 28's features like faster consensus and atomic contract upgrades. This update includes Spec Shaking v2 and improved contract data migration.
In the domestic cryptocurrency market, XRP, XLM, and HBAR showed high trading concentration. Notably, ONDO and WLD had significantly higher domestic trading proportions compared to global markets. Recently, LIT experienced a sharp decline, leading to a surge in trading volume, while HBAR exhibited the highest Kimchi premium.
Veteran trader Peter Brandt has recommended XLM as a long-term investment worth paying attention to for the next few years. He shared XLM's monthly chart, positively evaluating XLM as a 'long shot' investment with a low probability but high expected returns.
