Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. This much is documented: Stellar is getting new network rules. On October 20, 2026 the Stellar Development Foundation introduced Bell, the network's protocol 30. It holds three change proposals: multiplexed contract addresses with a prefix not used so far, the verification of quantum-safe signatures inside smart contracts, and a ledger that will carry time in milliseconds. None of it goes live by itself. The validators vote on the testnet on November 3 and on the mainnet on November 23, both at 17:00 UTC. Our own reading follows further down in its own section.