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About Stellar Lumens
Stellar’s cryptocurrency, the Stellar Lumen (XLM), powers the Stellar payment network. Stellar aims to connect the world’s financial system, enabling businesses and developers to take advantage of the network’s fast speeds, low transaction costs, and interoperability.
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XLM's trading volume dropped roughly 20% since Friday morning, ranking tenth among Layer 1 assets.
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Trading Insights
Buyer Ratio
75%0%
Traders
9.4K
-34.2%
Buyers
7.1K
-36.93%
Sellers
2.6K
-24.73%
Searched
5.3K
Market Stats
Market Cap
$11.31B
FDV
$18.02B
Circ. Supply
31B XLM
Max Supply
50B XLM
Total Supply
50B XLM
Performance
Popularity
#15
Dominance
0.31%
Volume (24H)
$218.71M
-49.99%
Volume (7D)
$1.82B
Volume (30D)
$7.78B
All time high
$0.94
Price Change (1Y)
286.45%
Additional details
Market details
XLM vs markets
↗ 111.84%
XLM vs BTC
↗ 110.43%
XLM vs ETH
↗ 124.71%
Tags
medium-of-exchange
enterprise-solutions
decentralized-exchange-dex-token
defi
+5
Network & Addresses
Network | Address | |
|---|---|---|
Stellar | NA |
Price history
Time | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
Today | $0.36 | ↘ 0.05% |
1 Day | $0.36 | ↘ 0.05% |
1 Week | $0.41 | ↘ 12.93% |
1 Month | $0.41 | ↘ 11.21% |
1 Year | $0.0932 | ↗ 286.45% |
Coinbase insights
Happening now
AI generated 8h ago
XLM's trading volume dropped roughly 20% since Friday morning, ranking tenth among Layer 1 assets.
Market Position
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Maintains fifth place in yearly price growth among Layer 1s, up about 279%
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Weekly price decline of ↘14%, underperforming Layer 1 category average ↘6% drop
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Lags behind IP, current leader in daily and weekly returns for Layer 1s
Past Stories
Recent trends
The latest XLM price is $0.36. Compared to Stellar Lumens's value of $0.36 from 24 hours ago, there's been a -0% decrease, while the current price is -13% down from $0.41 which was recorded one week ago. Stellar Lumens's all time high is $0.94, which was reached on January 4, 2018. This is a -62% change from its price today.
The current circulating supply of Stellar Lumens is 31,378,591,474. This is 63% of its max supply of 50,001,806,812 XLM and 63% of its total supply of 50,001,786,889. The market cap is currently $11.31B, which is a result of multiplying the current price of Stellar Lumens($0.36) by the total supply(50,001,786,889 XLM). The fully diluted valuation of Stellar Lumens is $18.02B. The diluted valuation of Stellar Lumens is $18.02B.
Stellar Lumens had 7,057 buyers, 2,606 sellers and total 9,411 trades in the last 24h. Stellar Lumens was searched 5,328 times in the last 24h.
FAQ
Stellar (XLM) is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network established in 2014 by the Stellar Development Foundation. As a cross-border transfer and payment system that connects financial entities, Stellar aims to unite the world's financial infrastructure, connecting banks, payment systems, and individuals with near-instant and secure transfers at a minimal cost. If the Internet connected the world's computers to enable the free global flow of information, Stellar aims to do the same for money. To accomplish this vision while maintaining neutrality, Stellar is not set up as a bank or a business. Instead, it's a decentralized, open network that is supported by a nonprofit foundation called the Stellar Development Foundation (or SDF, for short). The network's native digital currency, XLM or Lumens, acts as an intermediary currency for operations and is also used to pay transaction fees.
Stellar operates on distributed ledger technology, which is open-source, community-owned, and distributed by the community. Its token, the XLM (or Lumens), fuels activity on the Stellar network — a system designed to help payments (and currencies) cross borders faster and cheaper than with traditional financial-system networks. The Stellar payment protocol achieves this by converting financial resources into XLM and then into the requested currency within a few seconds. For example, a bank in Japan might use Stellar to send money to a bank in Mexico. Stellar would automatically convert yen to XLM, send the payment via blockchain, and reconvert XLM to pesos at the current exchange rate. Stellar was intended to work alongside existing assets and cryptocurrencies, allowing users to create digital representations of any asset as a Stellar token. These can then be used to transact on the blockchain and can be redeemed at any time for the base asset. The network aims to maintain a level of security, with XLM holders required to have at least one token to remain active on the network. This feature aims to execute network transactions efficiently and with minimal time costs. As a decentralized financial network, no single entity can process transactions or stop someone from onboarding or offboarding into Stellar, and the network can still run successfully even if some servers are turned off or fail.
Stellar's potential use cases are vast, particularly in the realm of cross-border transactions. The platform aims to overcome the challenges of high fees and slow procedures associated with traditional financial systems, support multi-currency transactions, and enhance processes with foreign operations. The network also uses a development called Anchors, which simplifies the exchange within the network and accelerates the entire process.
Stellar was founded by Jed McCaleb and lawyer Joyce Kim after McCaleb left Ripple in 2013 due to disagreements about the company's future direction. McCaleb's goal was to ensure that Stellar could provide people a way of moving their fiat (governement backed money), into crypto and eliminate the friction that people normally experience when sending financial resources around the world. Jed McCaleb currently serves as Stellar's CTO. This not-for-profit organization aims to "unlock the world's economic potential by making financial transactions more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered." Stellar was initially based on the Ripple Labs protocol, but the blockchain was created as a result of a hard fork, and the code was subsequently rewritten.
Unlike many popular cryptocurrencies, XLM cannot be mined or staked to receive rewards and increase the asset's supply. While Stellar works like technologies like Bitcoin, its key distinguishing feature is its consensus protocol. The present-day Stellar is a result of a 2014 fork that created the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), following which Stellar became an open-source system. Under this protocol, the transaction authentication process is confined to a select set of trustworthy nodes rather than being left open to the whole network of nodes. Instead of being mined by "proof of work," Stellar is secured by a unique blockchain mechanism called the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP).
You can buy, sell, send, and receive XLM by creating an account on Coinbase — or a number of other financial technology companies. Coinbase Wallet is another option for storing, sending, and receiving XLM.
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The current market cap of Stellar Lumens is $11.31B. A high market cap implies that the asset is highly valued by the market.
The all-time high of Stellar Lumens is $0.94. This all-time high is highest price paid for Stellar Lumens since it was launched.
Over the last 24 hours, the trading volume of Stellar Lumens is $218.71M.
Assets that have a similar market cap to Stellar Lumens include SUI, Bitcoin Cash, Cronos, and many others. To see a full list, see our comparable market cap assets.
The current circulating supply of Stellar Lumens is 31 billion.
Stellar Lumens ranks 5 among tradable assets on Coinbase. Popularity is currently based on relative market cap.
Currently, 98% of Coinbase users are buying Stellar Lumens. In other words, 98% of Coinbase customers have increased their net position in Stellar Lumens over the past 24 hours through trading.
Yes, Stellar Lumens is currently available on Coinbase’s centralized exchange. For more detailed instructions, check out our helpful how to buy Stellar Lumens guide.
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Stellar Lumens news
Trending articles
Social stats
Popularity in posts
#48
Contributors
1,573
Posts
5,328
% About Stellar Lumens
0.392%
Hold times
0 days
X (Twitter)
34.76% bullish
Sentiment
4.4 ★
Highlights
1,573 unique individuals are talking about Stellar Lumens and it is ranked #48 in most mentions and activity from collected posts. In the last 24 hours, across all social media platforms, Stellar Lumens has an average sentiment score of 87 out of 5. Finally, Stellar Lumens is becoming less newsworthy, with 0 news articles published about Stellar Lumens.
On Twitter, people are mostly neutral about Stellar Lumens. There were 36.17% of tweets with bullish sentiment compared to 4.04% of tweets with a bearish sentiment about Stellar Lumens. 63.83% of tweets were neutral about Stellar Lumens. These sentiments are based on 5263 tweets.
On Reddit, Stellar Lumens was mentioned in 4 Reddit posts and there were 7 comments about Stellar Lumens. On average, there were less upvotes compared to downvotes on Reddit posts and more upvotes compared to downvotes on Reddit comments.
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Analysis
Bulls say
Stellar Lumens’ focus on simplifying cross-border transactions could enable it to connect diverse financial systems more swiftly and reliably than traditional solutions.
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Bears say
Stellar Lumens aims to enable quicker transactions, but it contends with others striving for the same goal, which may affect its visibility.
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