Stellar Bell upgrade puts November votes in focus for Stellar price
Published on 11/01/2026 at 07:05 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSBell upgrade sets the near-term focus
- Stellar's proposed Bell, Protocol 30, has a testnet vote scheduled for November 3, 2026, followed by a mainnet vote on November 23.
- The upgrade would add muxed contract addresses, post-quantum signature verification for smart contracts and millisecond ledger timing if validators approve it.
- Investing.com displayed Stellar at 0.16995 USD, with a market capitalization of 6.00 billion USD and 35.25 billion XLM in circulation at the time of retrieval on November 1.
Stellar's proposed Bell upgrade is the main dated catalyst facing the network as November begins. The Stellar price was displayed at 0.16995 USD on Investing.com at the time of retrieval on November 1, 2026. The page also showed a market capitalization of 6.00 billion USD, 174.42 million USD in 24-hour volume, a market rank of 16 and 35.25 billion XLM in circulation.
Two votes are scheduled
According to the Stellar Development Foundation, validators are scheduled to vote on Bell, also called Protocol 30, on testnet on November 3 at 1700 UTC. A mainnet vote is planned for November 23 at 1700 UTC. The dates are governance milestones rather than proof that the upgrade has already been activated. Approval is required for the changes to take effect.
What Bell would change
The upgrade combines three proposed changes. CAP-84 would introduce muxed contract addresses, allowing a contract address to carry a 64-bit identifier for serving multiple customers. CAP-87 would allow Stellar smart contracts to verify ML-DSA post-quantum signatures. CAP-88 would add millisecond ledger timing, removing a technical obstacle to faster ledger close times.
The foundation's upgrade guide says SDK users and infrastructure operators need Protocol 30 releases before the relevant votes. That creates a practical implementation checkpoint for developers, validators, wallets, exchanges and other network participants. For XLM holders, the immediate significance is therefore tied to execution and governance, not to a completed protocol change.
Broader network context
Stellar also reported on October 14 that Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams were live on its mainnet. In its announcement, the foundation linked the integration to applications such as lending markets, prediction markets and tokenized real-world assets. It described Stellar's RWA ecosystem as exceeding 4 billion USD. That is an ecosystem development, not evidence of a direct token-price effect.
Investors should separate the upcoming votes, the Chainlink integration and the live market snapshot. The displayed price is not presented here as a verified UTC day-over-day change, because the retrieved page did not provide a dated prior UTC close. Further direction will depend on validator decisions, technical rollout and broader crypto-market conditions.
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