Stellar's Denelle Dixon on Hitting $5 Billion in RWAs and Project Thruput

CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie and 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder sit down with Denelle Dixon, CEO and executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation, at Stellar's Meridian conference. Dixon argues that trust and relentless focus on asset issuance and payments are what drew institutional partners to Stellar, and she details Project Thruput, a technology preview that has already demonstrated roughly 1.14 million transactions per second to prepare for bringing trillions of dollars on-chain.She notes Stellar crossed more than $5 billion in real-world assets during the event with a developer base she places behind only Ethereum and 99.99% uptime. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Stellar Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon at Meridian 00:49 Trust as the Cornerstone and Staying Focused 02:05 Inside Project Thruput 03:00 The Next Decade and 2027 03:59 Crossing $5 Billion in RWAs 04:52 Both Sides of the Barbell: Global Reach 06:20 Marshall Islands and Government Use Cases 08:00 Why Institutions Trust Public Blockchains 09:32 What to Watch for in 2027 - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj