Buy XLM with UpTradeBuy Stellar with a dedicated broker handling the trade from your first question through to settlement into institutional custody.
Buy Stellar with a dedicated broker handling the trade from your first question through to settlement into institutional custody.
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Fund your account and get your quote Fund in your preferred currency and your broker prepares a live quote, so you know exactly what you’re getting before you commit. Larger orders route through OTC execution.
Buy and settle into custody Confirm with your broker and your XLM settles into institutional custody secured by Fireblocks. Hold it there or withdraw to your own wallet anytime.
General considerations not advice. How you act on them depends on your own circumstances.
Crypto is volatile Stellar’s price can move sharply in both directions sometimes within a single trading session. It’s an asset class to approach with capital you’re prepared to see fluctuate in value. General information only not a prediction or recommendation.
General information only, not a prediction or recommendation.
Where it’s held matters Crypto bought on an exchange typically sits on the exchange’s balance sheet. Institutional custody holds your XLM separately a structural difference worth understanding before you buy.
How custody worksBroker vs exchange Buying Stellar through a broker works differently from a self-serve exchange order book. Understanding how the two differ helps you choose the path that fits how you want to buy.
See the differenceLarger trades are different Buying a significant amount of Stellar in one go can move an exchange’s order book against you. OTC execution is built for size filling large orders without that market impact.
About OTC tradingStellarA plain-English look at what it is, how it works, and what it's used for, so you can understand the asset before you buy.
Stellar (XLM) is an open-source blockchain network designed specifically for fast, low-cost cross-border payments and asset tokenization. Founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb who had previously co-founded both Ripple and the Mt. Gox exchange and Joyce Kim, Stellar is operated by the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organisation based in San Francisco. Its native token, the Lumen (XLM), powers transactions and interactions on the network.
Stellar’s primary use case is moving value across borders quickly and cheaply. XLM functions as a bridge currency when two parties want to exchange currencies with no direct trading pair between them, XLM can sit in the middle of the transaction, converting one asset to another in a single step. This makes Stellar particularly relevant for remittances and cross-border payments in emerging markets. Stellar also supports the issuance of digital representations of real-world assets on its network including fiat currencies, commodities, and other financial instruments. Financial institutions and payment companies have used Stellar’s infrastructure to build regulated payment rails and tokenised asset products. In 2023, Stellar launched Soroban a smart contract platform built into the Stellar network enabling a new category of decentralised applications and DeFi protocols to be built on the same infrastructure that powers its payments network. XLM is used to pay gas fees on Soroban.
• Stellar Consensus Protocol. Stellar uses Federated Byzantine Agreement rather than proof of work or standard proof of stake. Transactions settle in approximately five seconds with negligible fees.
• Fixed supply. Following a 2019 burn of 55 billion tokens, Stellar's total supply is fixed at 50 billion XLM. No new tokens will ever be created.
• Cross-border payments focus. Stellar was built specifically to move value across borders and currencies cheaply and quickly making it one of the few networks designed from the ground up for payments, not computation.
• Asset tokenisation. Any asset fiat currency, commodity, or financial instrument can be issued as a token on the Stellar network. This makes it a foundation for regulated digital financial products.
• Soroban smart contracts. Stellar's 2023 smart contract platform extends its capabilities beyond payments into decentralised applications, expanding the utility of XLM as network fuel.
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