Stellar has always been a chain built for infrastructure.As of May 2026, Stellar’s official site shows about >$160M in TVL, average transaction costs around $0.0007667, and settlement in roughly 5 seconds over the last 30 days. That matters because DeFi on Stellar is not trying to win by looking flashy. It is trying to make liquidity, payments, and asset movement actually usable at scale.1. What makes DeFi on Stellar different?Stellar’s DeFi ecosystem is structurally different from most Layer...