Stellar
Stellar is an open-source, decentralized network co-founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim to facilitate the fast and low-cost transfer of value across different currencies and assets globally. Managed by the non-profit Stellar Development Foundation, the project serves as a global infrastructure that connects banks, payment systems, and individuals to expand financial access to underserved populations. Its main value proposition lies in providing a bridge between traditional money and digital networks through the use of Anchors, which are trusted entities that hold deposits and issue credits on the ledger. The network operates using the Stellar Consensus Protocol and a Federated Byzantine Agreement, where nodes choose trusted sets of other nodes to agree on the state of the ledger. This system ensures high throughput and fast finality, where transactions are considered permanent and irreversible within seconds. Key features include a built-in distributed exchange for trading assets without intermediaries and the Soroban platform for developing smart contracts. Users can also utilize the network for tokenizing real-world assets or accessing decentralized finance services like peer-to-peer lending. Stellar's native token, XLM, is essential for maintaining network integrity by acting as an intermediary to find efficient exchange paths and preventing spam through small transaction fees and minimum account balance requirements. Unlike many other digital assets, the network has no inflation because the community voted to disable the automatic creation of new tokens. While the project received early funding from the payments company Stripe, it is now sustained by a global community of validators and developers rather than traditional venture capital.
Key Projects
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Blockchain infrastructure platform
Multi-chain financial product protocols
Digital payments company
Blockchain designed for asset tokenization and payments
DEX based on automatic market making system
Democratizing access to institutional finance
Digital asset investment platform
Blockchain-based, compliance-first global settlement network
Digital payment platform
An interoperable Layer-1 multi-chain Web3 ecosystem
Decentralized bridge
Payment and financial infrastructure
Decentralized economy ecosystem
Blockchain infrastructure layer
Stellar wallet
Decentralized liquidity market protocol
RWA Solution
DeFi automation yield platform
Stablecoin Protocol
News
Bermuda Taps Coinbase And Stellar For Onchain Economy Vision Bermuda is working with @Circle, @Coinbase, and @StellarOrg to build what it hopes becomes the world’s first fully onchain economy. The initiative includes plans for a sovereign Bermuda digital dollar and expanded blockchain based govern
Stellar's TVL surge - Can't Stop, Won't Stop. @StellarOrg $XLM has seen an outrageous surge in total-value locked over the past year, even as other major networks bleed TVL like there's no tomorrow. Stellar reached an all-time high TVL on April 24 at more than $197 million. Since then, it has retr
BREAKING: AUM for tokenized funds on @StellarOrg is at an all-time high of ~$1.9 billion. The largest asset managers on Stellar are @Spiko_finance and @FranklnTempletn. A trendline to watch 👇 https://t.co/ECHJ6sIudA
RT @CoinDesk: LATEST: Bermuda is working with Circle, Coinbase and Stellar to build what it hopes will be the world’s first fully onchain e…
RT @ethconf: 🌟 NEW ETHConf speaker announced @tomerweller, CPO of @StellarOrg A longtime contributor to the Stellar ecosystem, Tomer has…
LATEST: ⚡ CME Group has added Avalanche and Sui futures, continuing an altcoin derivatives expansion that began with Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar in February. https://t.co/FLYyefKlhk
LATEST: Bermuda is working with Circle, Coinbase and Stellar to build what it hopes will be the world’s first fully onchain economy, including a sovereign Bermuda digital dollar. https://t.co/kzn4a7hdwi
I bet we’re ~6mo from a vibe shift back to OpenAI GPT5.5 is very impressive and 40% cheaper, limits are higher. Codex is stellar and taking mindshare of the top devs I know. Teams I talk to are disillusioned with ROI from soaring Anthropic costs. It’s becoming untenable.
BERMUDA TAPS STELLAR TO RUN ITS ENTIRE NATIONAL ECONOMY The Stellar Development Foundation (@StellarOrg) and the Government of Bermuda announced that Bermuda will move key payment and financial servi
Tiny Bermuda Just Chose Stellar to Run Its Entire Finance