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Coin Specs
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XLM
XLM
Stellar Lumens
$
0.24068
Market Cap
$ 7.22B
Circ. Supply
XLM 29.97B
Volume (24h)
$ 1.18B
Daily Change
+3.44%
Weekly Change
+91.41%
Monthly Change
+145.34%
XLM/USD Chart
Type
COIN
Algorithm
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Protocol
DPOS
Start Date
01/08/2014
Max Supply
-
Circ. Supply
29,973,140,886
Intro
Stellar is a decentralized sustainable network that settles peer-to-peer financial transactions. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the global financial infrastructure. It was released in 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim. Since then, it is maintained by the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports its technology development and growth.
The Stellar network aims not only to make cross-border payments quicker and at a low cost, but also to expand access to systems more reliable than the conventional banking and remittance that is currently used. Its approach is to integrate distributed ledger technology into the existing financial infrastructure. The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), allows simultaneous access, validation, and updating of records in an unchanged way to a network distributed across multiple entities or locations.
The Stellar system has its native token, the Lumen (XLM). Lumens cannot be mined. Instead, the supply of Lumens is controlled by Stellar. Originally, 100 billion Lumens were created and the supply was originally inflating by 1% per year. In October 2019 the organization decided that it would be optimal to estimate how much it could actually use over a 10-year timespan and adjust the supply proactively. Thus, the 1% inflation was removed and 55 billion Lumens were burnt leading to a max supply of 50 billion Lumens.
XLM uses an algorithm called the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), that keeps everything in sync. This protocol provides a way to reach consensus without relying on a closed system to accurately record financial transactions.
The Stellar network aims not only to make cross-border payments quicker and at a low cost, but also to expand access to systems more reliable than the conventional banking and remittance that is currently used. Its approach is to integrate distributed ledger technology into the existing financial infrastructure. The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), allows simultaneous access, validation, and updating of records in an unchanged way to a network distributed across multiple entities or locations.
The Stellar system has its native token, the Lumen (XLM). Lumens cannot be mined. Instead, the supply of Lumens is controlled by Stellar. Originally, 100 billion Lumens were created and the supply was originally inflating by 1% per year. In October 2019 the organization decided that it would be optimal to estimate how much it could actually use over a 10-year timespan and adjust the supply proactively. Thus, the 1% inflation was removed and 55 billion Lumens were burnt leading to a max supply of 50 billion Lumens.
XLM uses an algorithm called the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), that keeps everything in sync. This protocol provides a way to reach consensus without relying on a closed system to accurately record financial transactions.
Features
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Fees
Each transaction comes with a fee of 0.00001 Lumens. XLM tokens are used to cover the cost of transaction fees on the Stellar network and ensure minimum account balances are kept.
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Multiple currency transactions
Lumens also act as a bridge between currencies, facilitating trades between two separate currencies when there is not a large direct market by allowing one type of currency to be sent from one peer and arrive as a different currency to the receiver.
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Decentralized Control
Stellar has a decentralized Exchange, it does not require a third party to store the funds, instead, users are directly in control of their coins and the conduction of transactions.
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Fast
Stellar runs a network of decentralized servers with a distributed ledger that is updated every 2 to 5 seconds among all nodes and provides fast transaction speeds, by eliminating the need for validation and mining to create a leaner blockchain network.
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