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Stellar Development Foundation: Partnership
Stellar announced a major partnership with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to become the first public blockchain linked to DTCC's tokenized securities settlement platform. CEO Denelle Dixon highlighted this as validating years of institutional blockchain infrastructure development.
Source: PYMNTS
The leadership read
Alliances like this can broaden web3 & blockchain commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 98.6 (Neutral), down 1.4 month-on-month — shows Americas signal flow easing (-2.6pts).
Stellar Development Foundation: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Web3 & Blockchain median of 1 across 6 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow.
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