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)

SK Won (KRW)

Euro (EUR)

Bitcoin (BTC)

Japanese Yen (JPY)

British Pound (GBP)

USD Coin (USDC)


Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.11 USD	1.33%	$6,636,869	45.17%

Bibox	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	0.00%	$2,729,193	0.00%

Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	1.42%	$1,922,289	18.45%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	167.10 KRW	1.82%	$1,587,514	49.62%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.11 USD	1.51%	$365,282	38.82%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	1.58%	$164,707	68.39%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.11 EUR	1.48%	$111,153	23.21%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000018 BTC	1.30%	$93,379	58.79%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	0.80%	$77,191	28.07%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.11 EUR	1.71%	$42,375	8.58%

BitFlyer	Stellar (XLM)	Japanese Yen (JPY)	17.70 JPY	1.39%	$34,237	50.93%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.11 USD	0.96%	$31,229	73.55%

Binance US	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	1.15%	$29,149	30.70%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	British Pound (GBP)	0.09 GBP	1.28%	$12,481	13.42%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000018 BTC	1.41%	$9,014	69.02%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000018 BTC	0.72%	$3,254	79.51%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000018 BTC	2.37%	$1,773	79.54%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.11 USDT	2.06%	$1,278	51.20%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000017 BTC	0.45%	$106	82.86%

Poloniex	Stellar (XLM)	USD Coin (USDC)	0.11 USDC	0.72%	$26	220.62%