The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has announced ambitious goals for the Stellar blockchain, targeting $3 billion in real-world asset (RWA) value to be held on-chain and $110 billion in RWA volume powered by the network by the close of 2025. This target represents a tenfold increase in on-chain RWA value compared to the $290 million recorded at the end of December 2024.
The SDF, the non-profit organization dedicated to the growth and development of the Stellar network, is building upon existing partnerships with traditional finance giants like Franklin Templeton and Wisdom Tree. To further this expansion, Stellar is onboarding new tokenization specialists, including stablecoin issuer Paxos, institutional DeFi platform Ondo, Web3 infrastructure provider Etherfuse, and SG Forge, the blockchain innovation arm of French banking group Société Générale.
Lauren Thorbjornsen, VP and chief of staff at the Stellar Development Foundation, stated in an interview, “We have a goal of powering $3 billion in real-world asset value on Stellar in 2025. That would be more than a 10x increase from the $290 million in RWA we had in Stellar at the end of December 2024. But already we see a lot of growth happening on the network, just in the first quarter of this year.”
The tokenization of traditional financial assets has gained significant traction in the past year, attracting major players like BlackRock into the space. Stellar, a public blockchain launched in 2014 with a focus on facilitating fast and low-cost cross-border transactions across various currencies and assets, aims to capitalize on this growing trend.
