What Is Stellar (XLM)?

Jason Matt Lukis, MBA, MS
2 min readAug 19, 2021
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Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments and allows money to be moved and stored. It was launched in July of 2014. Stellar makes it possible to send and exchange digital representations of all forms of money — dollars, euros, bitcoin, pretty much any currency.

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It’s designed so that the world’s financial system can work together on a single network. Stellar’s native tokens are called lumens and they serve as a bridge that makes it less expensive to exchange money across the globe.

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Stellar does not have a single owner and is owned by the public. The software runs across a decentralized, open network and handles millions of transactions each day.

The Stellar network was created in 2014 and was developed by two people: Joyce Kim and Jed…

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Jason Matt Lukis, MBA, MS
Jason Matt Lukis, MBA, MS

Written by Jason Matt Lukis, MBA, MS

MBA in Management from NSU | MSci. in International Real Estate from FlU | Graduate Student in Social Media at UF