With Kaleido, you match an enterprise-grade platform with pluggable tools to quickly build dApps on the Stellar network.
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Stellar is an payments & asset-oriented L1 built for fast, low-cost cross-border payments, tokenized assets and stablecoins.
Kaleido operates Stellar node infrastructure and adds payments-first tooling — issuance/reconciliation, anchor/issuer workflows, and enterprise custody/KMS — so organizations can run compliant, auditable payment rails and stablecoin programs on Stellar.
Stellar is a public layer 1 blockchain designed for payments and asset issuance, including stablecoins and cross-border transfers. It is not EVM-compatible: assets are native to the ledger, and smart contracts run on Soroban. Kaleido runs Stellar nodes and payments tooling so institutions can issue, move and reconcile assets on Stellar with enterprise controls.
Kaleido runs dedicated Stellar nodes for Mainnet and Testnet, with Horizon and Stellar RPC endpoints for submitting transactions and reading ledger data. Requests go through Kaleido's load-balancing node gateway for fault tolerance. For institutions that take part in consensus, Kaleido runs validator-grade nodes and manages quorum sets and trust levels.
On Stellar, an issuing account creates a token, and each holder opens a trustline to that asset before receiving it. Kaleido manages the issuing and distribution accounts, keeps their keys in its key management service, and adds issuance governance, reconciliation and proof-of-reserves hooks, so a bank or stablecoin issuer can run the full token lifecycle on Stellar.
Kaleido supports stablecoin issuance on Stellar with lifecycle governance, reconciliation and enterprise custody for the issuing keys. Issuers can require multi-party approval for mint and burn operations through Kaleido's policy engine and reconcile Stellar activity against their internal ledgers. The Stablecoins solution shows how Kaleido supports issuers across networks.
A Stellar anchor is a regulated business, such as a bank or payment company, that takes fiat deposits, issues the matching asset on Stellar and redeems it on withdrawal. Anchors connect the Stellar network to bank accounts and local payment rails. Kaleido supports anchor and issuer workflows, giving these firms the node, custody and reconciliation layers they need.
Stellar is built for payments and asset issuance, with low, predictable fees, assets native to the ledger and settlement in about five seconds. EVM chains such as Ethereum or Base offer a broader smart contract ecosystem and more token standards, including ERC-3643 for permissioned securities. Kaleido supports both, so institutions can choose a network per use case and manage assets on each from one platform.
Kaleido Custody holds Stellar keys in its key management service, with HSM-backed keys where required, and applies the same policy controls it uses on other supported networks. Treasury teams can hold Stellar assets next to holdings on Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana and Canton, under one set of approval rules.
