Stellar price: Bell upgrade puts November 23 vote in focus
Published on 11/05/2026 at 07:19 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSBell upgrade keeps XLM in focus
- Stellar's Bell Protocol 30 testnet vote was completed on November 3, while the mainnet validator vote is scheduled for November 23.
- XLM was priced at USD 0.168700 at 02:17 UTC on November 5, according to The Market Periodical.
- Bell proposes muxed contract addresses, ML-DSA signature verification for smart contracts and millisecond ledger timing, but does not make network transactions post-quantum or automatically shorten block times.
Stellar's Bell Protocol 30 upgrade is now the main near-term network event for XLM. The testnet validator vote scheduled for November 3 was completed, and the next decision point is the mainnet vote planned for November 23 at 17:00 UTC. The date remains a scheduled vote, not a guarantee that the upgrade will be activated.
The The Market Periodical displayed the Stellar price at USD 0.168700 at 02:17 UTC on November 5. Its page reported a 24-hour increase of 5.44 percent, but that rolling figure is not treated here as a UTC daily close comparison. The same source listed a market capitalization of USD 5.96 billion and ranked Stellar No. 19 among cryptocurrencies.
What Bell is designed to change
According to the Stellar Development Foundation, Bell combines three proposed protocol changes. CAP-84 introduces muxed contract addresses, allowing one smart contract to distinguish multiple customers. CAP-87 enables smart contracts to verify ML-DSA post-quantum signatures. CAP-88 changes ledger timing to milliseconds, removing a technical barrier to faster ledger close times in future upgrades.
The distinction matters for investors: Bell does not make Stellar's network transaction signatures post-quantum. Those remain Ed25519 for now. Nor does the upgrade itself make the network produce blocks faster than five seconds. The practical benefits therefore depend on developers, wallets, exchanges and infrastructure providers adopting the required software and address changes.
Investor context for XLM
Stellar price developments remain exposed to both market-wide crypto sentiment and the network's ability to turn technical upgrades into usage. The Market Periodical listed XLM below its 50-day, 100-day and 200-day moving averages, while a current market analysis from TMGM, citing FXStreet, identified resistance near USD 0.173. That technical level is an observation, not a forecast or a signal that the protocol vote will determine the token's price.
For now, the key milestones are validator coordination ahead of the November 23 mainnet vote and the implementation work required across the Stellar ecosystem. The Stellar topic page provides further coverage of the network and XLM.
