Current Price: $0.23 (3300 Satoshi) ATH: $0.93 on January 4th, 2018 Current CMC Ranking: #6
What’s happening?
>Stellar just surpassed 1 million accounts >COINBASE LISTING - Currently Pending >STRONGHOLD USD - IBM building Stellar dependent “stablecoin” pegged to USD >stellar.expert (Analytics - it's back!) to >Fairx.io (Pending trading site) >StellarX.com (Beta Released!) >Stellarterm.com (Stellar Decentralized Exchange) >Stellarport.io (Stellar Decentralized Exchange) >Lightyear.io (Stellar for-profit unit)
Benefits of Stellar:
>ICOs and smart-contracts. Not turing-complete like ETH, but far easier to use >faster than all other networks (lightning set for 12/1/18) >decentralized (in governance, coin distribution and validation) >anyone can run a node >war chest for developers and worldwide distribution >transaction cost = effectively $0.00001 >strongly backed by IBM, Tempo >Stellar just purchased Blockchain startup Chain for $500 million USD >Stellar consensus protocol: 1000s tx/s (global scale) >1% annual inflation distributed weekly to those who own XLM (lumenaut.net/) >compatible with ledger (stellar.org/account-viewer/#!/) >LOBSTR mobile wallet for IOS and Android (lobstr.co/#start-section)
Popular ICOs on Stellar: >Mobius (MOBI) >Smartlands (SLT) >Sureremit (RMT)
What’s the bottom line? >Stellar is a fast, cheap and simple cryptocurrency that can function well for both fintech and everyday people. Stellar is ready to go right now.