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)

Tether (USDT)


Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	4.56%	$9,974,797	17.21%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.67%	$6,129,216	15.89%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	113.00 KRW	4.47%	$5,279,073	4.31%

Kucoin	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.65%	$1,992,546	33.03%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	BUSD (BUSD)	0.09 BUSD	4.56%	$1,564,783	7.37%

HitBTC	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.69%	$1,491,692	8.35%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000040 BTC	4.27%	$939,202	9.50%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	4.46%	$597,568	36.83%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000040 BTC	4.53%	$535,301	7.35%

Kraken	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	4.61%	$403,911	38.70%

Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.67%	$343,993	6.45%

Gate.io	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.50%	$324,041	25.69%

Binance US	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	4.25%	$267,922	14.82%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.08 EUR	3.95%	$228,767	14.17%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.08 EUR	4.33%	$177,659	38.79%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.09 USD	4.66%	$174,206	24.10%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.08 EUR	4.30%	$173,058	16.27%

Kraken	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.08 EUR	4.15%	$171,138	2.82%

BitFlyer	Stellar (XLM)	Japanese Yen (JPY)	12.01 JPY	2.53%	$166,924	67.62%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.09 USDT	4.31%	$139,306	28.92%