Stellar processes over 5 million operations daily, delivering real value to institutions such as Circle, MoneyGram, and Franklin Templeton. This proven infrastructure should inspire trust in Stellar’s capabilities.
Despite Stellar’s payment dominance, a critical infrastructure gap has limited DeFi growth. Filling this gap with RedStone opens new opportunities for innovative protocols.
Today, that changes. RedStone is bringing institutional-grade oracle infrastructure to the Stellar mainnet.
The Infrastructure Constraint
Here’s the problem Stellar developers have been living with: you can have the best payment infrastructure in the world, but without reliable price feeds, you can’t build the DeFi products that leverage those payment flows.
Lending protocols need accurate collateral prices. If you can’t trust that the BTC collateral backing a loan is correctly valued, you can’t safely lend against it. A 2% price feed error can mean millions in bad debt.
DEXs need real-time market data. Without proper price discovery mechanisms, arbitrage becomes impossible, liquidity fragments, and users get poor execution.
RWA platforms need institutional-grade infrastructure. Traditional financial institutions aren’t going to bridge billions of assets onto a chain where price feeds are unreliable or cannot be independently verified.
This is why Stellar, despite ~$500M in TVL and proven PMF with payments, hasn’t seen the DeFi explosion you’d expect. The foundation was there. The oracle infrastructure wasn’t.
What Enterprise-Grade Oracle Infrastructure Actually Means
Not all oracles are created equal. When we say “institutional-grade,” we mean infrastructure that meets the same standards as traditional financial systems. Here’s what that looks like in practice:
Security Through Multiple Layers
RedStone’s oracle infrastructure has been independently audited by top-tier firms such as Zellic and Veridise, with comprehensive reviews that ensure the security and transparency institutional users demand.
The audits are public. The code is open-source. The verification is transparent.
Beyond audits, our architecture implements defense in depth: signature verification occurs in the Adapter contract, Multiple data sources are aggregated to prevent manipulation, and freshness checks are enforced at read time, so client contracts don’t need to implement separate staleness logic. This ensures data integrity and resistance to tampering.
Battle-Tested at Scale
RedStone currently manages over $8.5 billion in Total Value Secured across 70+ blockchains. We deliver price feeds to 180+ protocols, from DeFi blue-chips to emerging RWA platforms. This isn’t our first rodeo.
When Spiko (Stellar’s largest protocol with $200M in TVL) needed reliable oracle infrastructure, they chose RedStone, not because of marketing, but because the infrastructure scales to their requirements.
Feeds That Match Stellar’s Strengths
We’re launching on Stellar mainnet with 10 live price feeds, carefully selected to match the ecosystem’s payment-first profile:
- BTC & ETH: The blue-chip assets every DeFi ecosystem needs
- USDC & PYUSD: Stablecoin infrastructure ready from day one, critical for Stellar’s payment-focused protocols
- BENJI: Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund, bringing institutional RWA infrastructure to Stellar DeFi
- Plus: Additional feeds covering the assets Stellar protocols are actually building with
The infrastructure is comprehensive from day one.
How It Actually Works (The Technical Bit)
For developers who want to understand the architecture:
RedStone on Stellar uses a Push model with an Adapter + Price Feed contract structure. Off-chain updater processes (operated by RedStone) periodically submit price updates to the on-chain Adapter contract when market movements exceed configured deviation thresholds. Client contracts read normalized values from dedicated Price Feed contracts.
Each feed maintains its own storage record with the latest value, timestamp, and metadata required for safety checks. Freshness is enforced at read time, so you don’t need to implement separate staleness checks in your contract. It’s handled at the infrastructure layer.
The update policy is optimized for Stellar’s stablecoin-heavy ecosystem: deviation-based updates push new values when market movement exceeds thresholds, while time-based updates guarantee at least daily refreshes during low volatility. This is particularly important for stablecoin protocols where small deviations matter and timely updates are critical.
All contracts are built in Rust using Soroban’s native environment. We provide a Rust SDK (v3.x) with contract bindings and data-processing utilities to make integration straightforward. The SDK isn’t a network client. It’s focused on making oracle data consumption clean and type-safe in your Soroban contracts.
What This Unlocks for Stellar
Let’s be specific about what becomes possible with a reliable oracle infrastructure:
Lending protocols can finally scale safely. You can collateralize volatile assets like BTC and ETH, knowing the liquidation mechanisms will execute based on accurate prices. Blend, one of Stellar’s emerging lending protocols, is already preparing to integrate RedStone feeds.
DEXs can offer sophisticated trading products. Perpetuals, options, and leveraged tokens all require reliable price feeds. Without them, you’re limited to basic spot trading.
RWA platforms can bridge traditional assets. Franklin Templeton’s BENJI fund is getting RedStone price feeds on Stellar. This is the infrastructure that lets institutional capital flow on-chain safely. Centrifuge, Solv, and other RWA platforms are in the pipeline.
Stablecoin protocols get the infrastructure they need. With USDC and PYUSD feeds live, Stellar’s payment-focused protocols can build yield products, collateralized positions, and complex stablecoin mechanics that weren’t safe before. EtherFuse and Brale (both stablecoin infrastructure projects) are evaluating integration.
This isn’t an incremental improvement. This is removing a fundamental constraint that’s been holding back ecosystem development.
The Institutional Angle Matters
Here’s why the Franklin Templeton BENJI integration is particularly significant: it’s a signal that institutional players are taking Stellar DeFi seriously.
Traditional finance institutions don’t experiment with unreliable infrastructure. When Franklin Templeton launched BENJI on Stellar, they needed price feeds that meet the same standards they’d require for any financial product. The fact that RedStone is delivering those feeds (and that BENJI is now part of Stellar’s on-chain data infrastructure) validates the ecosystem’s institutional readiness.
This matters for more than just one fund. It establishes the precedent that institutional-grade RWA products can operate on Stellar with the same infrastructure guarantees they’d expect anywhere else. That opens doors.
What’s Next
The foundation is live. Spiko is building with it at $200M TVL. BENJI feeds are operational. Blend, Centrifuge, and Solv integrations are coming.
But this is the beginning, not the end. Stellar’s DeFi ecosystem has been infrastructure-constrained for too long. The payment rails work. The institutional credibility exists. Now the oracle infrastructure matches that standard.
For developers: the constraint is removed. Build the lending protocols, DEXs, derivatives platforms, and RWA products that Stellar’s proven payment infrastructure deserves.
For protocols considering Stellar, the oracle infrastructure is no longer a question mark. It’s production-ready, enterprise-grade, and already proven at scale.
For the ecosystem: the next chapter of Stellar DeFi starts now.
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