Stellar price in focus as Bell upgrade heads toward mainnet vote
Published on 11/10/2026 at 07:09 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSBell upgrade sets the focus
- Stellar's Bell Protocol 30 is live on testnet after validators approved it on November 3, 2026.
- Validators are scheduled to vote on mainnet activation on November 23 at 17:00 UTC.
- Investing.com displayed XLM at USD 0.15048, with a market capitalization of USD 5.32 billion.
- Technical coverage points to bearish momentum, while Bell remains a potential network-development catalyst rather than a guaranteed price trigger.
Stellar price remains a market-watch item as the network moves from a completed testnet vote toward a scheduled mainnet decision. Stellar validators approved Bell, also known as Protocol 30, on November 3 at 17:00 UTC, and the upgrade is now live on testnet. The next milestone is the mainnet vote scheduled for November 23 at 17:00 UTC.
The upgrade timeline and technical scope are set out by the Stellar Development Foundation. Bell includes muxed contract addresses, which can allow one smart-contract address to serve multiple customers while recording customer identifiers. It also adds post-quantum signature verification for smart contracts through ML-DSA and introduces millisecond ledger timing. The timing change creates a technical basis for faster ledger closes but does not make the network faster by itself.
Price remains below key levels
At the time its page was read, Investing.com displayed XLM at USD 0.15048 and a daily change of minus 0.51 percent. The page showed a market capitalization of USD 5.32 billion, 24-hour volume of USD 71.31 million and a rank of 16. Its listed seven-day performance was minus 10.5492 percent, while the monthly performance was minus 21.6256 percent. The displayed 52-week range ran from USD 0.13725 to USD 0.31124.
Recent technical coverage from TMGM, citing FXStreet, described XLM as bearish near USD 0.146 on November 10. It identified resistance near USD 0.153 and support near USD 0.139, while noting an RSI close to 30 and a negative MACD. Those indicators can describe stretched selling conditions, but they do not establish that a rebound is due.
What investors should monitor
The main investment-relevant question is whether validators approve Bell on mainnet and how wallets, exchanges, custodians and developers implement the changes. The upgrade may improve the network's functionality for contract-based services and future settlement use cases, but the scheduled vote is not the same as a completed mainnet activation. Nor does the testnet milestone, by itself, prove that demand for XLM will increase.
For now, the Stellar price reflects a market still trading below recent highs while investors assess both broader crypto risk and the November 23 governance event. The relevant topic page is Stellar on Ad-hoc-News.de.
