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)

US Dollar (USD)

SK Won (KRW)

Bitcoin (BTC)

Euro (EUR)

Japanese Yen (JPY)

British Pound (GBP)

Ethereum (ETH)


Bibox	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	1.37%	$21,292,093	80.83%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.12 USD	0.86%	$4,582,512	25.27%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	162.00 KRW	0.98%	$3,357,337	79.19%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.12 USD	0.89%	$1,344,273	55.27%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000031 BTC	0.84%	$142,074	64.68%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	0.78%	$132,160	55.63%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.11 EUR	0.64%	$129,752	19.25%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.12 USD	0.83%	$104,234	6.80%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.11 EUR	1.07%	$82,572	219.60%

BitFlyer	Stellar (XLM)	Japanese Yen (JPY)	17.76 JPY	0.90%	$79,674	1.02%

Binance US	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	0.92%	$77,093	87.40%

Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	1.36%	$58,011	22.57%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000031 BTC	0.86%	$40,837	13.58%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	0.75%	$35,524	71.61%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000031 BTC	2.01%	$20,815	65.70%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	British Pound (GBP)	0.10 GBP	1.47%	$20,369	1,047.68%

Bittrex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000031 BTC	1.41%	$17,078	62.47%

Bittrex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.12 USDT	3.06%	$16,298	45.27%

Bittrex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.12 USD	1.34%	$10,306	3.75%

Bittrex	Stellar (XLM)	Ethereum (ETH)	0.0000561 ETH	2.70%	$5,692	18.89%