Stellar Bell upgrade sets November 23 vote: What it means for the Stellar price

Published on 10/22/2026 at 13:13 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Bell adds three smart-contract changes. The Stellar price is 0.17875 USD on October 22, 2026, down 2.25 percent.

Upgrade plans and network activity

Validators are scheduled to vote on Bell on November 23, 2026.
Protocol 30 contains three changes involving addresses, signatures and ledger timing.
The Stellar price stands at 0.17875 USD as of October 22, 2026, -2.25 percent below the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026.
Tokenized assets on Stellar recorded 36.4 million USD in inflows on October 4, 2026.

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Stellar (XLM) faces a validator vote on November 23, 2026, for Bell, also called Protocol 30. The Stellar price is 0.17875 USD as of October 22, 2026, down 2.25 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026, according to Investing.com.

CryptoTicker reported on October 21, 2026, that Stellar validators are scheduled to vote on the testnet on November 3, 2026, and on the mainnet on November 23, 2026, at 17:00 UTC. The dates concern votes on whether to move the network to the new protocol, rather than an automatic activation.

Protocol 30 puts three changes before validators

Bell combines three technical proposals. The first introduces a new address format for smart contracts, which are programs that execute rules on a blockchain. The second adds verification for post-quantum signatures, a form of cryptography designed to address future quantum-computing risks. The third changes ledger timekeeping to milliseconds, according to CryptoTicker.

U.Today said on October 20, 2026, that infrastructure and software development kits were scheduled to roll out between October 16, 2026, and October 23, 2026. The report said existing XLM balances and addresses would not require a migration.

October 4 tokenized-asset flows add network context

Stellar recorded 36.4 million USD of net inflows into tokenized real-world assets on October 4, 2026, according to Coinotag. Real-world assets are traditional financial instruments represented as blockchain tokens. The report attributed the figure to Token Terminal data and said Stellar had 72 launched real-world-asset projects.

The same report said the October 4, 2026, figure represented a 37 percent share of the 96.5 million USD added across the 10 largest blockchain networks during the measured period. Such flow data describe changes in tokenized-asset value, not the number of users or transactions, according to Coinotag.

XLM market data show a 2.25 percent daily decline

According to Investing.com, XLM trades at 0.17875 USD as of October 22, 2026, down 2.25 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 21, 2026. The daily high is 0.18442 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 0.17856 USD. Market capitalization is 6.30 billion USD, ranking Stellar 17th, while 24-hour volume is 145.74 million USD. Circulating supply is 35.22 billion XLM.