The Stellar Development Foundation presented Bell, the proposed network upgrade for Protocol 30, with a testnet vote scheduled for November 3, 2026, and a mainnet vote planned for November 23. These dates are governance milestones and do not mean every feature will already be active. The project combines three proposals aimed at simplifying large-scale smart account management, enabling post-quantum signature verification within contracts, and reducing ledger closing times. These changes could improve the performance of payment, exchange, and custody applications, but they guarantee neither an immediate effect on the asset’s value nor an instant migration of the network to post-quantum cryptography.
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