Stellar XLM
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CM Profile: Stellar
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about XLM, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.10% and 0.12%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold XLM. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 15.4% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell XLM
Selling $100,000 of XLM into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken XLM/USD | 0.10% | $99,895 | 2026-10-08 median of 37 |
| Coinbase XLM/USD | 0.12% | $99,883 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps XLM on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Stellar is
Stellar is a payment network launched in 2014 by Jed McCaleb, who had earlier co-founded Ripple. It targets cross-border transfers and financial access in places where banking infrastructure is thin, with transactions settling in seconds for a negligible fee.
The network works through anchors — regulated institutions that accept local currency and issue a matching token on Stellar, which can then move anywhere on the network and be redeemed for local currency at the other end. XLM, the native asset, pays small fees and can act as a bridge between currency pairs.
Two things to weigh. The Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit, was allocated a large share of supply and remains highly influential over the network's direction, which is a different governance model from a genuinely diffuse protocol. And real-world usage, while real, is concentrated in specific corridors and partnerships rather than broad — the network's capability has consistently run ahead of its adoption.
What Stellar can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.10% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
Anyone can send lumens to any address for a small fee. But an account of your own can never be emptied: it must always keep a minimum balance, currently 1 XLM. Held at an exchange, your lumens sit in the exchange's shared account instead, so the rule does not reach you, and you depend on the exchange. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Sources: Stellar docs: lumens, Stellar docs: pooled accounts · checked 2 October 2026
Lumens pay nothing for being held. The network's built-in inflation was ended by a vote of its validators in 2019, and the validators themselves are not paid.
Sources: Stellar docs: lumens, Stellar docs: consensus · checked 2 October 2026
Stellar runs programs through its contract platform, Soroban. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Source: Stellar docs: smart contracts · checked 2 October 2026
About 50 billion lumens exist, and the network creates no more. The Stellar Development Foundation holds roughly 15.5 billion of them, and when those reach the market is up to the foundation.
Source: Stellar docs: lumens · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where XLM lives
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
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Stellar data synced 4m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell XLM.