Bell testnet vote on November 3: What it means for the Stellar price

Stellar (XLM) has a Bell Protocol 30 testnet validator vote scheduled for November 3, 2026, at 1700 UTC, according to Stellar. The Stellar price is 0.16933 USD as of October 27, 2026, up 0.27 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Bell sets November 3 testnet vote

Bell is the proposed Protocol 30 upgrade for the Stellar network. Stellar says the package includes muxed contract addresses, which let smart contracts serve multiple customers, post-quantum signature verification for smart contracts and millisecond ledger timing. The same schedule sets a mainnet validator vote for November 23, 2026, at 1700 UTC, with both votes subject to change and the upgrade taking effect only if validators approve it, according to Stellar.

Stellar's upgrade guide says infrastructure operators and developers must update relevant software for the new ledger format before the November 3, 2026, testnet vote and the November 23, 2026, mainnet vote. The guide identifies JavaScript SDK version 17.3.0 as part of the preparation path and says existing Soroban contracts continue working after the upgrade, according to Stellar.

Network use reached 14.16 million transactions

Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams went live on Stellar on October 14, 2026. An oracle is a service that supplies external data to smart contracts. Stellar said the integration targets lending, prediction markets, perpetual futures and other onchain applications across an ecosystem with more than 4 billion USD in tokenized real-world assets, according to Stellar.

Separately, U.Today reported that Stellar processed 14.16 million transactions on October 23, 2026, while the average transaction fee was 0.00012 USD. The report attributed the figures to analytics tracker Chainspect and recorded an average processing speed of 163.9 transactions per second, according to U.Today.

Stellar price data for October 27

The Stellar price stands at 0.16933 USD as of October 27, 2026, up 0.27 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 26, 2026, according to Investing.com. The daily high is 0.16980 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 0.16662 USD. Investing.com lists market capitalization at 5.95 billion USD, rank 17, and 24-hour volume at 106.40 million USD. Circulating supply is 35.23 billion XLM.

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