Bell upgrade announced October 20: What it means for the Stellar price

Published on 10/26/2026 at 07:09 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Stellar processed 12 million transactions on October 11. The Stellar price is 0.17016 USD on October 16, 2026, down 4.34 percent.

Protocol dates and network usage

Validators have a November 3, 2026, testnet vote ahead for Bell, Stellar's protocol 30 proposal.
Network activity reached 12 million transactions on October 11, 2026, with an average fee of 0.00012 USD.
The Stellar price stands at 0.17016 USD as of October 16, 2026, 4.34 percent below the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.
Circulating supply stands at 35.23 billion XLM.

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Stellar (XLM) faces Bell, a protocol 30 upgrade announced October 20, 2026, according to CryptoTicker, with a testnet vote scheduled for November 3, 2026. The Stellar price is 0.17016 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 4.34 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026.

Bell sets two validator votes

Bell bundles three proposed network changes: multiplexed contract addresses, verification of quantum-safe signatures inside smart contracts and ledger time measured in milliseconds. The November 3, 2026, testnet vote comes before a November 23, 2026, mainnet vote, both scheduled for 17:00 UTC, according to CryptoTicker.

The proposal affects infrastructure operators more directly than individual holders. The new address format is intended to let one contract handle multiple customer balances, while the signature change concerns smart contracts rather than the transaction signatures used by ordinary Stellar accounts. The same source reported that Stellar Core version 30.0.0 was released on October 16, 2026.

October 11 carried 12 million transactions

Stellar processed about 12 million transactions on October 11, 2026, at an average fee of 0.00012 USD, according to CoinOtag. The figure equals 139.15 transactions per second in the cited reading. The fee was the network's seven-day low on that date, according to the same report, which attributed the figures to Chainspect data.

That October 11, 2026, reading describes one dated period rather than a projection for future activity. Bell's proposed changes and the transaction data therefore describe separate aspects of Stellar: planned software changes and measured network use.

XLM market data shows a 6.00 billion valuation

According to Investing.com, the Stellar price is 0.17016 USD as of October 16, 2026, down 4.34 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 15, 2026. The daily high is 0.17397 USD and the daily low for the UTC day is 0.16990 USD. Market capitalization is 6.00 billion USD, ranking Stellar 16th, while 24-hour volume is 116.23 million USD. Circulating supply is 35.23 billion XLM.