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

Published on 10/29/2026 at 13:07 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Bell includes CAP-84 and CAP-87 for smart accounts and quantum-safe signatures. The Stellar price is 0.16933 USD on October 29, 2026, up 0.27 percent.

Protocol changes and market data

Stellar's Bell plan reaches a testnet vote on November 3, 2026.
Protocol 30 includes CAP-84, CAP-87 and CAP-88.
The Stellar price stands at 0.16933 USD as of October 29, 2026, 0.27 percent above the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026.
Stellar's mainnet vote is scheduled for November 23, 2026, at 17:00 UTC.

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Stellar (XLM) has a testnet vote scheduled for November 3, 2026, as part of the Bell Protocol 30 upgrade, according to Stellar. The Stellar price stands at 0.16933 USD as of October 29, 2026, up 0.27 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026.

The Bell schedule sets a formal validator vote rather than an automatic network activation. Validators are the network operators that approve protocol changes, so the November 3, 2026, testnet date marks a governance step for Stellar's next software version.

Protocol 30 adds three network changes

Stellar's upgrade guide lists Stellar Core v30.0.0 as available on October 16, 2026, and places the testnet upgrade vote on November 3, 2026, according to Stellar. The release is called Bell, or Protocol 30, and is designed around changes to smart accounts, quantum-safe signatures and ledger timing.

Technical details reported by CryptoTicker identify three core proposals. CAP-84 introduces multiplexed contract addresses, which allow one smart contract address to distinguish multiple customer balances. CAP-87 adds verification for ML-DSA signatures, a post-quantum cryptographic standard, while CAP-88 changes ledger timestamps from seconds to milliseconds.

Mainnet vote is set for November 23

The next scheduled milestone is a mainnet validator vote on November 23, 2026, at 17:00 UTC, according to CryptoTicker. The report says the Bell changes only take effect if enough voting weight approves them, and it notes that the dates can change.

The same report says existing balances do not require a token swap or migration. The operational issue is concentrated among wallets, exchanges and data services that must recognize the new address format and ledger definitions by the November 23, 2026, vote. That creates an implementation requirement for infrastructure providers, while the proposed changes target business use of Stellar smart contracts.

XLM market data shows 5.95 billion USD

According to Investing.com, XLM trades at 0.16933 USD as of October 29, 2026, up 0.27 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 28, 2026. 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.