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The upgrade targets contract maintenance and scaling as Stellar’s stablecoin, DeFi and tokenized-asset activity continues to grow.
The network uses one USDC balance for payments and fees, but catching its rival depends on additional demand.
The XRPL cleared consensus, but 2,000 one-drop payments from 20 accounts and tiny fee burn limit the adoption case.
Routine transfers and cash exchanges could qualify, while return-right lending, crypto swaps and continuing custody remain potentially regulated.
A 255,434-block study puts one scanning feed near 8 MB a day while completeness remains unproven.
A debate in the Ethereum ecosystem exposes costs that could favor trusted payments, while relay auctions may still help builders compete.
Banks retain the customer interface, while undisclosed pricing, data, compliance and settlement terms will determine who captures the value.
BTCPay says attackers are probing a restart-time weakness that could hand over administrative control.
LDK v0.2.6 addresses small splice-related fund losses and a payment-handling flaw that could prevent saved channel state from loading.
