Can Stellar’s mission to bridge traditional finance and blockchain truly scale without compromising on decentralization, given the growing demand for regulatory integration and institutional control?

In a future where value moves at the speed of trust, can Stellar’s consensus model scale to support global financial infrastructure without compromising decentralization or regulatory alignment?

With Protocol 20 enabling Soroban smart contracts on Stellar Mainnet, how does the runtime architecture handle deterministic metering across nested contract calls while ensuring resource isolation and execution finality within the SCP consensus flow?

If Stellar is doing $206M+ in daily volume while staying under the radar… what happens when the world finally pays attention?

What does XLM’s inclusion in the Nasdaq Crypto Index signal about its institutional relevance and long-term position in regulated crypto markets?

With Stellar’s support for decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials, could it eventually replace traditional identity systems — and if so, what would prevent governments from adopting it?

How does Stellar ensure validator set consistency and maintain quorum intersection during network upgrades or validator churn, especially when custom quorum slice configurations introduce asymmetric trust graphs?