Stellar, whose native currency is the lumen (XLM), enables extremely low-cost asset exchange across borders. Founded by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim in 2014, Stellar is the result of a hard fork from Ripple that had occurred a year earlier. McCaleb’s goal had been to facilitate, for all people, the movement of fiat into crypto, in turn making international payments easier and far less expensive (as every transaction costs just 0.00001 XLM, and an XLM costs just a few cents). However, large institutions have been capitalizing off the decentralized platform as well. IBM has teamed up with Stellar to launch World Wire, empowering large financial institutions to transact using bridge assets, such as stablecoin. The Stellar network is secured via the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), a federated Byzantive voting system, which is completely decentralized, that halts liveliness until consensus is reached, but enables nodes to reach consensus despite outliers. The average block time for Stellar is near instant, and the maximum supply of lumens is not available. See below for a full selection of markets where you can trade XLM  for other cryptocurrencies, US dollars, and other fiat currencies.


Stellar

Stellar (XLM)

US Dollar (USD)

SK Won (KRW)

Tether (USDT)

Euro (EUR)

Japanese Yen (JPY)

Bitcoin (BTC)

British Pound (GBP)

Kucoin (KCS)

Ethereum (ETH)


Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.10 USD	2.50%	$9,282,677	6.28%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	145.10 KRW	2.28%	$3,223,453	41.07%

Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	2.48%	$2,009,020	11.68%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.10 USD	2.43%	$832,288	231.87%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	2.41%	$496,569	3.53%

Bibox	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	0.00%	$412,751	0.00%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	2.57%	$326,408	1.33%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.10 EUR	2.23%	$246,780	7.45%

BitFlyer	Stellar (XLM)	Japanese Yen (JPY)	15.92 JPY	3.26%	$104,928	40.20%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000015 BTC	2.97%	$100,390	25.48%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.10 USD	2.62%	$80,713	12.49%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.10 EUR	2.33%	$76,401	26.78%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000015 BTC	2.97%	$56,421	62.75%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000015 BTC	1.94%	$30,887	698.97%

Binance US	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	2.48%	$25,343	7.82%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.10 USDT	2.37%	$6,890	956.01%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	British Pound (GBP)	0.08 GBP	1.14%	$1,980	93.04%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000000 BTC	0.00%	$0	0.00%

Kucoin	Stellar (XLM)	Kucoin (KCS)	0.0000000 KCS	0.00%	$0	0.00%

Bittrex	Stellar (XLM)	Ethereum (ETH)	0.0000000 ETH	0.00%	$0	0.00%