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https://www.stellar.org/

https://dashboard.stellar.org/ - Stellar Network Information

Current Price: $0.25
ATH: $0.93 on January 4th, 2018
Current CMC Ranking: #6

What’s happening?

>COINBASE LISTING - Currently Pending
>STRONGHOLD USD - IBM building Stellar dependent “stablecoin” pegged to USD
>http://stellar.expert (Analytics)
>http://www.Fairx.io (Pending trading site)
>http://www.StellarX.com (Pending trading site)
>http://www.Stellarterm.com (Stellar Decentralized Exchange)
>http://www.Stellarport.io (Stellar Decentralized Exchange)
>http://www.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 (without pending lighting network integration)
>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 consensus protocol: 1000s tx/s (global scale)
>Stellar forces the use of XLM as the cost for using the network
>1% annual inflation distributed weekly to those who own XLM (https://lumenaut.net/))
>compatible with ledger (https://www.stellar.org/account-viewer/#!/))
>LOBSTR mobile wallet for IOS and Android (https://lobstr.co/#start-section))

Popular ICOs on Stellar:
>Mobius (MOBI)
>Smartlands (SLT)
>Sureremit (RMT)

What’s the bottom line?
>Stellar has an opportunity to break out into the top 5 coins by being what Ripple was supposed to be. A fast, cheap and simple cryptocurrency that can function well for both fintech and everyday people. Stellar is ready to go right now. Not tomorrow, not in 2 years, and not hypothetically.