--- title: "Stellar's Freighter wallet rebrands as Varial with discovery focus" description: "The Stellar Development Foundation's blog said the Freighter wallet is now Varial, describing it as a new name and a new focus on helping users discover and…" language: en canonical: "https://whycoinmoves.com/en/events/stellar-freighter-now-varial-your-wallet-59b79bcf40503f" published: 2026-10-29T11:27:06.000Z updated: 2026-10-29T12:28:01.000Z indexable: true --- # Stellar's Freighter wallet rebrands as Varial with discovery focus The Stellar Development Foundation's blog said the Freighter wallet is now Varial, describing it as a new name and a new focus on helping users discover and… Attributed sources: [Stellar Blog]() ## Key facts The Stellar Development Foundation's blog said the Freighter wallet is now Varial, describing it as a new name and a new focus on helping users discover and use apps, assets and opportunities across the Stellar ecosystem. The post noted Freighter launched in 2020 as a browser extension and was the first wallet to support smart contracts when they arrived on Stellar. Evidence strength: Official source, 1 publisher group(s) (Stellar Blog). After site detection, observed returns were 5 minutes: -0.11% (difference from BTC -0.09 pp; Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 → Oct 29, 2026, 11:32, UTC; Gate · USDT); 1 hour: +0.07% (difference from BTC +0.23 pp; Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 → Oct 29, 2026, 12:27, UTC; Gate · USDT) In the preceding 30 days, the 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns was 2.08% (OKX · USDT; cutoff Oct 29, 2026, 11:27, UTC). ## Returns after site detection | Window | Return | BTC | Difference from BTC | Actual sampled interval (UTC) | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 5 minutes | -0.11% | -0.02% | -0.09 pp | Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 → Oct 29, 2026, 11:32 | Gate · USDT | | 1 hour | +0.07% | -0.16% | +0.23 pp | Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 → Oct 29, 2026, 12:27 | Gate · USDT | ## Historical hourly baseline | Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | Coverage | 100.0% (720/720) | | Median absolute hourly return | 0.30% | | 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns | 2.08% | | BTC beta | 1.44 | | Source / cutoff (UTC) | OKX · USDT / Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 | ## Claims and open questions - The Stellar Development Foundation's blog announced that Freighter is now Varial, with a new name and a new focus on helping users discover and use the best apps, assets and opportunities across the Stellar ecosystem. - The same post said Freighter launched in 2020 as a browser extension and a reference implementation for developers building on the Stellar network. - According to the post, when smart contracts arrived on Stellar, Freighter became the first wallet to support them. - What becomes of the Freighter browser extension and any existing installations under the Varial name, and whether the foundation has published migration steps for users? - Whether the rebrand changes the wallet's fee, custody or key-management model, which an official foundation statement or product documentation would confirm? ## Source evidence - [Freighter is now Varial: Your wallet for discovering Stellar]() — Stellar Blog; published Oct 29, 2026, 00:00; received Oct 29, 2026, 11:27 (UTC). ## Recent XLM events and market reactions - [Stellar unveils Project Thruput execution model preview on FutureNet]() — Published Oct 26, 2026, 20:18 (UTC) · Official source (1 publisher) · General news · 5m +0.04% / 1h -0.27% / 24h -1.86% - [Stellar announces Bell, Protocol 30 upgrade with quantum-safe and faster-ledger work]() — Published Oct 20, 2026, 13:34 (UTC) · Official source (1 publisher) · Project updates · 5m +0.14% / 1h -0.04% / 24h +1.31% - [Stellar Core: v30.0.0 released]() — Published Oct 16, 2026, 21:09 (UTC) · Official source (1 publisher) · Project updates · Complete reaction windows unavailable - [Full coin archive]() ## Research for this archive - [Will Bitcoin go back up? Every crash since 2011 and its recovery time]() Evidence levels describe source coverage, not the probability that a report is true. Price moves and their timing cannot establish a cause; minute samples show an observed interval and alert thresholds are heuristics. Explanations are model-assisted, with citations and figures checked. Source titles stay in their original language; full articles are not republished. [Methods and limitations]()