cross-chain

A guide to moving assets and messages between Stellar and other blockchains. Stellar is a blockchain network, while a cross-chain rail is the method used to connect it to another network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between Circle CCTP V2, Axelar GMP, Axelar ITS, and NEAR Intents for Stellar interoperability work.
Why use it?
Different jobs need different connections: moving native USDC, calling another chain's contracts, sharing tokens, or swapping assets. The guide helps select the relevant method before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stellar/stellar-dev-skill/cross-chain
Any agent
npx skills add stellar/stellar-dev-skill --skill cross-chain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stellar/stellar-dev-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,791 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00160 $0.01791
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00179

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5d437e0e14cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-chain scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cross-chain/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Chain on Stellar

Stellar connects to other blockchains over several production rails, each built for a different job. Picking the wrong rail wastes engineering effort; picking the right one is a routing decision, not a research project. This file routes; the deep dives live alongside it — read the file that matches the task:

You want to Use Where
Move native USDC between Stellar and an EVM chain or Solana (no wrapped assets, no liquidity pools) Circle CCTP V2 cctp.md
Have a Stellar contract call a contract on another chain, or receive calls from one (arbitrary payloads) Axelar GMP axelar.md
Make a token — new or an existing Stellar asset — exist on multiple chains Axelar ITS axelar.md
Swap any asset cross-chain (BTC, ETH, SOL, … → XLM or Stellar USDC) without integrating a bridge yourself NEAR Intents below

Rules of thumb: if the asset is USDC and both ends are CCTP chains, CCTP is the cheapest and most direct (it burns and mints Circle-native USDC — nothing wrapped, nothing pooled). If you need logic, not just value, on the far chain, that is message passing — Axelar GMP is the rail for it. If you control a token and want it multichain, that is ITS. If the user just wants "turn my X on chain A into Y on Stellar" and you don't want bridge plumbing at all, quote it through NEAR Intents.

When to use this skill

  • Bridging USDC between Stellar and Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Solana, or another CCTP-supported chain
  • Receiving bridged USDC into a Stellar account or contract (and not bricking the funds — see the forwarder warning below)
  • Writing a Stellar smart contract that sends messages to or receives messages from contracts on other chains
  • Deploying an interchain token, or connecting an existing Stellar asset to other ecosystems
  • Adding a "deposit from any chain" or cross-chain swap flow to a wallet or dapp

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 62 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 5d437e0e14cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cross-chain is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellar/stellar-dev-skill (51 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,791 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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