🚀 Stellar $XLM in 2025: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

🔹 Founded in 2014 by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb, Stellar focuses on real-world financial use cases — like cross-border payments and financial inclusion.

🔹 Fast & Ultra-Cheap:
Transactions settle in 3–5 seconds
Fees? Just 0.00001 $XLM — practically zero.

🔹 $XLM is more than a coin:
It acts as a bridge between fiat and crypto, powers the network, and helps prevent spam.

🔹 Key Partnerships:
IBM, MoneyGram, KuCoin Pay, Visa, Mastercard — Stellar is deeply integrating with traditional finance.

🔹 Core Features:
— Built-in Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
— SCP: a fast, energy-efficient consensus protocol
— Smart contracts via Soroban

🔹 What’s Ahead?
— Widespread use in emerging markets
— Infrastructure for CBDCs
— Price outlook:
$1.20–$2.50 by 2026
$5–$15 by 2030
$30–$50 long-term (2050) in a bullish scenario

🌐 Stellar isn’t just a token — it’s global payment infrastructure.

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