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Price
$0.257547
24 Hour % Change
-5.94%
Market Cap
$27.16B
Volume (24h)
$652.40M
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24 Hour Low
$0.253429
24 Hour High
$0.277343
Net change
$-0.016255
24 Hour Open
$0.273663
All time high
$0.875563
Total Supply
105.44B
Returns (24H)
-5.94%
Returns (YTD)
91.81%
Volatility (30d)
2.23
Transaction Count (24h)
5.34M
Average Transaction Fee (24h)
$0.007274
Value Transacted (24h)
$73.71M
About Stellar
Category
Value proposition
Lumen (XLM) is the native cryptocurrency for Stellar, an open source blockchain payment system. The purpose of Stellar is to connect financial institutions via the blockchain and provide cheap transactions in developing markets. Jed McCaleb, a longtime cryptocurrency entrepreneur who founded bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and co-founded blockchain-based payment system Ripple Labs, created Stellar in July of 2014. Stellar uses a federated byzantine agreement (FBA) algorithm instead of a traditional mining network to validate transactions. Since the transfer of lumens doesn’t require approval from traditional cryptocurrency miners, the Stellar network enables quicker transactions than some other blockchain-based systems.
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