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)

USD Coin (USDC)

US Dollar (USD)


ZB	Stellar (XLM)	USD Coin (USDC)	0.13 USDC	0.16%	$15,350,769	15.83%

Coinbase Pro	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.13 USD	0.02%	$14,108,679	18.21%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.22%	$12,644,382	32.44%

HitBTC	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.13%	$7,984,407	56.95%

Kucoin	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.18%	$6,600,673	19.08%

UPbit	Stellar (XLM)	SK Won (KRW)	181.00 KRW	2.02%	$4,032,810	27.26%

ZB	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.07%	$3,503,208	48.27%

Bibox	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.28%	$3,207,618	77.93%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.10%	$2,589,401	1,138.46%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000045 BTC	0.27%	$2,337,826	27.78%

Huobi Global	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.20%	$2,251,323	30.69%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	BUSD (BUSD)	0.13 BUSD	0.07%	$2,184,234	7.94%

Gate.io	Stellar (XLM)	Tether (USDT)	0.13 USDT	0.15%	$2,097,386	23.12%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.13 USD	0.13%	$1,086,612	12.14%

Binance	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.13 EUR	0.09%	$949,635	13.59%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.13 USD	0.10%	$867,906	28.57%

Bitfinex	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000045 BTC	0.15%	$678,545	556.63%

Kraken	Stellar (XLM)	US Dollar (USD)	0.13 USD	0.11%	$651,884	56.48%

Bitstamp	Stellar (XLM)	Euro (EUR)	0.13 EUR	0.26%	$605,736	25.03%

HitBTC	Stellar (XLM)	Bitcoin (BTC)	0.0000046 BTC	0.03%	$578,813	66.07%