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)

Tether (USDT)

SK Won (KRW)

US Dollar (USD)

Japanese Yen (JPY)

Euro (EUR)

Bitcoin (BTC)

British Pound (GBP)

Kucoin (KCS)

Ethereum (ETH)


Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	0.96%	$1,519,682	19.28%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	121.20 KRW	0.59%	$1,448,070	87.40%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	0.97%	$387,946	126.97%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	1.05%	$177,031	52.77%

BitFlyer	Stellar (XLM)	Japanese Yen (JPY)	12.70 JPY	0.49%	$104,923	225.18%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.08 EUR	0.64%	$58,348	68.56%

Binance US	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	1.00%	$42,204	245.23%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	0.95%	$38,649	72.61%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000017 BTC	0.37%	$13,893	68.71%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	British Pound (GBP)	0.07 GBP	1.63%	$13,888	171.70%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	0.11%	$1,622	603.06%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000016 BTC	0.99%	$1,023	74.30%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000015 BTC	0.00%	$68	0.00%

Bibox	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.0000000 USDT	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%

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

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

Kucoin	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.0000000 USDT	0.00%	$0	0.00%

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