XLM price, live and explained

The live XLM price sits in the widget above: the current Stellar Lumens price in US dollars, a chart you can switch between 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days and one year, the 24-hour high and low, the market cap and a converter for USD, IDR, VND, KRW, JPY and EUR. Everything comes from CoinGecko’s public API and updates about once a minute, so the number you see is close to what the market is quoting now.

A price on its own tells you very little. This guide explains how to read the XLM to USD chart, what market cap and supply actually measure, which events shaped Stellar’s price history, what tends to move XLM up or down, and why the price in Seoul or Tokyo can briefly differ from the one in New York. We do not make forecasts here. If that is what you came for, our XLM price prediction guide covers it honestly.

How to read the live XLM price chart

The line on the chart is the volume-weighted XLM/USD price that CoinGecko aggregates from the exchanges it tracks. Hover or tap anywhere on it and you get the exact price at that moment. The short ranges (24H and 7D) are useful for spotting intraday swings, for example the sharp candles that often follow a big bitcoin move. The longer ranges (90D and 1Y) are better for seeing whether the Stellar price is trending or just chopping sideways.

Two habits make the chart far more useful. First, look at percentages, not cents. XLM trades at a low unit price, so a one-cent move can be a big deal in percentage terms. Second, compare more than one timeframe before deciding anything. A “crash” on the 24-hour view is often a small dip on the one-year view, and the reverse is just as true.

The 24-hour high and low under the chart show the range the market covered over the last day. A wide range with no clear direction usually means nervous trading. A narrow range often means a quiet market waiting for news.

XLM market cap, volume and supply explained

Market cap is the XLM price multiplied by the circulating supply. CoinGecko counts roughly 35.25 billion XLM as circulating, almost exactly matching the Stellar Development Foundation’s own supply dashboard. The other ~14.48 billion lumens of the ~50 billion total are held by SDF under its mandate and are not counted. That gap matters: if you multiply the price by the total supply instead, you get a “fully diluted” value about 42% higher than the headline market cap.

Volume is the dollar value of XLM that changed hands over 24 hours. It tells you how liquid the market is, and how much a single large order might move the price. At the time of our latest check, about 78% of XLM spot volume tracked by CoinGecko was traded against USDT, a dollar stablecoin. The Korean won (about 6.5%) was the largest fiat currency, just ahead of the US dollar. Volume figures across the industry include some low-quality venues, so treat them as a rough gauge, not an audited number.

Supply is unusual for XLM. There is no mining and no staking reward. All lumens were created at launch in 2014, inflation was switched off in 2019, and more than half the original supply was burned the same year. CoinGecko lists the max supply as “none”, because no hard cap is written into the protocol, even though no new lumens are being created. Our XLM supply and tokenomics guide explains the full picture.

Stellar lumens price history: the milestones

Stellar’s price history is short but eventful. The table below lists only milestones we can source. We have left out round-number claims we could not verify.

The 2018 peak came at the top of the ICO-era bull market, when almost every large altcoin set records within days of each other. The November 2019 burn is the clearest example of a Stellar-specific event moving the price: Decrypt reported that XLM jumped nearly 25% within an hour of the announcement, from about $0.07 to $0.087, before settling around 17% higher on the day. The burn itself is documented on SDF’s lumens page.

Note how different the data sites can be. CoinMarketCap and some others show an all-time high closer to $0.93 for January 2018, because they weight exchanges differently. Neither number is wrong. They are different averages, which is why we always name CoinGecko as our source.

Why is Stellar lumens going up or down?

There is rarely one reason for a price move, but a handful of forces explain most of what you will see on the chart.

The whole crypto market. Most large altcoins, XLM included, tend to rise and fall with bitcoin during broad market moves. On days when the entire market is red, Stellar-specific news usually takes a back seat. Comparing the XLM chart with bitcoin’s over the same window is the quickest way to tell a market-wide move from an XLM story.

Adoption and network news. Stellar is built for payments and tokenised assets, so real-world use matters to the narrative. PayPal’s PYUSD went live on Stellar in 2025, and SDF reports that tokenised real-world assets on the network grew 172% that year. Around the Meridian 2026 conference, SDF announced that MetaMask had made Stellar a default network. News like this can lift sentiment, although the link to the XLM price is indirect: holding a tokenised fund or a stablecoin on Stellar needs only small amounts of XLM for fees and reserves. Our guides to tokenised real-world assets and stablecoins on Stellar track that activity.

SDF holdings and sales. SDF holds roughly 14.48 billion XLM, about 29% of the total supply. Its mandate page says lumens from the SDF Development account are sold on public exchanges such as Kraken, Coinbase and Bitstamp to cover operating costs. XLM has no vesting “unlock” calendar like many newer tokens. The equivalent supply question is how fast SDF moves lumens into circulation, which you can follow on its dashboard.

Protocol upgrades. Stellar validators vote in upgrades several times a year, from Soroban smart contracts in 2024 to zero-knowledge building blocks in Protocol 25. Upgrades rarely move the price on the day. Over time, they shape what developers can build on the network.

Market access and regulation. CME Group launched Stellar futures on 9 February 2026. In Europe, 21Shares listed a Stellar ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange in 2021, and WisdomTree launched a physically backed XLM ETP in October 2025. In the US, the SEC and CFTC listed XLM as an example of a “digital commodity” in an interpretive release of 17 March 2026. That is guidance, not a court ruling. Broader access tends to widen the pool of potential buyers, but it also makes shorting easier. Our regulation and safety guide covers the details.

Korean won flows. Because KRW is the biggest fiat market for XLM, a burst of buying on Korean exchanges can show up clearly in global volume. Upbit alone accounts for most of that KRW activity.

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Before blaming (or crediting) a Stellar headline, open the bitcoin chart for the same hour. If both moved together, the headline probably wasn’t the reason.

XLM price in KRW, JPY, IDR and VND

The converter in the widget turns any amount of XLM into US dollars, Korean won, Japanese yen, Indonesian rupiah, Vietnamese dong or euros, using CoinGecko’s cross rates. That is a reference value. What you actually pay or receive depends on the exchange you use, its spread and its fees.

Each Asian market has its own character. South Korea is the largest fiat market for XLM worldwide: all five KRW exchanges list it, and Upbit, where it trades as 스텔라루멘, dominates the volume. In Japan, XLM (ステラルーメン) was the sixth most traded coin by spot volume in September 2026, according to JVCEA statistics. Many Japanese buyers use dealer-style 販売所 desks, where the price you pay includes a spread. In Indonesia, several OJK-licensed platforms quote XLM/IDR directly, though the rupiah order books are thin. Vietnam has no licensed local exchange yet, so there is no VND order book, and the dong figure in our converter is a straight currency conversion.

For local prices, exchanges and rules, see our guides for South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The “kimchi premium” and other regional price gaps

Traders use “kimchi premium” (김프 in Korean slang) for the gap that sometimes opens between a coin’s price on Korean won exchanges and its dollar price elsewhere. When Korean demand surges, local prices can run ahead of global ones. When it fades, the premium can shrink or even turn into a discount. The same idea applies, on a smaller scale, to any local market with its own currency and its own pool of buyers.

Why doesn’t arbitrage close the gap instantly? Moving money between markets is not frictionless. KRW deposits on Korean exchanges require a real-name bank account at the exchange’s partner bank, and shifting funds across borders takes time, paperwork and fees. In Japan, many retail buyers use 販売所 desks, whose quoted price already includes a spread, so it naturally differs from the order-book price. Thin local order books, as in Indonesia, can also leave quotes a step behind global moves.

We do not quote a current premium here, because it changes minute by minute and a stale number would be misleading. To check it yourself, compare the KRW price on a Korean exchange with our converter’s KRW figure at the same moment. The difference, after fees, is roughly the premium or discount.

Where our XLM price data comes from

All live figures in the widget come from CoinGecko, which aggregates prices and volumes from hundreds of exchange pairs. Its responses are cached for 30 to 60 seconds, so refreshing faster than about once a minute won’t show you anything new. Supply figures can be cross-checked against SDF’s own dashboard, which on our latest check agreed with CoinGecko’s circulating supply to within a few hundred lumens.

There are a few caveats worth knowing. First, aggregated prices are averages: the exact price on your exchange can be a little higher or lower, especially during fast moves or on thin local pairs. Second, volume figures include venues of uneven quality, so very large volume spikes deserve a second look. Third, historical highs and lows differ between data providers, as the $0.8756 versus ~$0.93 example shows. Finally, if CoinGecko is unreachable, the widget hides itself rather than showing an old number as if it were live.

Using the price before you buy XLM

If you are checking the price because you plan to buy, three habits help. Compare the live price here with the final quote on your exchange, including the spread and fees, before you confirm. Decide on an amount you could hold through a deep drawdown: from its January 2018 peak, XLM had lost more than 90% of its value by the time of the 2019 burn. And treat any single day’s move as noise unless the longer chart agrees.

Our step-by-step buying guide covers payment methods, deposit memos and moving coins to a wallet. If you want to understand how XLM’s design differs from its closest rival, read our XLM vs XRP comparison.

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