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The Stellar Network and Ecosystem

Fast, efficient, scalable, and affordable. Explore how the Stellar network was designed to seamlessly create and send digital assets to reach users everywhere — and to make a lasting impact on the future of finance.

The Design

A Future-proof network built for utility

The Stellar network is a decentralized, fast, scalable and uniquely sustainable blockchain built for financial products and services. This is driven by the Stellar Consensus protocol (SCP), a proof-of-agreement (PoA) consensus mechanism – making the network faster, cheaper, and far more energy-efficient than many other blockchains.

The Numbers

Stellar Network Stats

9M

Total Addresses

742.9M

Total Operations

$1.8 billion

Total payments volume for all real world assets

$0.000053

Average Transaction Cost (a fraction of the costs associated with other blockchains)

The Benefits

Fast, Efficient, Scalable

Fast to Finality

The Stellar network transactions are confirmed within 5 seconds, with all time average ledger speed at 5.19s

Energy-Efficient Design

Research showed the Stellar network’s footprint is the equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 33.7 US homes’ electricity use for one year.

Transactions at Scale

The Stellar network can process up to 1,000 operations per ledger and has processed tens of billions of operations since 2015.

Affordable for Developers

The Stellar network performs transactions for a fraction of a US penny, with the average transaction cost = 0.00005439600316892125 XLM.

What You Can Do on the Stellar Network

Built For Payments

Scale and expand your payments globally with 24/7/365 settlement on the Stellar network. Harness the versatility of cross border payments that can power remittances, bulk disbursements, invoice suppliers, maintain treasury balances and more. Access the global ecosystem of anchors, wallets, and cash to crypto on and off-ramps on Stellar with interoperability standards that can connect your business with financial institutions, exchanges, fintechs, and more – all to deliver affordable and fast last-mile payments.

What You Can Do on the Stellar Network

Built for Asset Tokenization

The Stellar network is the ideal platform for asset tokenization, trusted today by global financial institutions. Asset issuers and custodians can benefit from powerful, built-in features and controls to tokenize real-world assets quickly and at a low cost.

The Stellar network offers a trust-based validation process, enabling you to focus on business priorities without having to worry about the security of the network. Thanks to having validators with minimal financial incentives, assets issued on the network are more likely to withstand regulatory scrutiny. Manage transactions with built-in controls for approving, revoking, and freezing assets ensuring precise asset distribution.

See how simple the process is with the no-code-required Stellar Asset Sandbox.

What You Can Do on the Stellar Network

Built for Decentralized Finance

Build DeFi applications on Stellar with Soroban, a developer-friendly, Rust-based smart contracts platform designed for scale and sensibility. With tools such as plug-and-play SDKs, Stellar CLI, RPC server, and local sandbox, Soroban provides a user-friendly experience to get developers up and running quickly. Start building with flexible, reusable functions and ready-to-use contracts.

Soroban is designed with scalability in mind. Boost performance with multi-core scaling, an optimized fee model, and no pesky serialization loops – reducing the need for coding and decoding of smart contracts. Soroban also tackles the elephant in the room head-on by addressing the problem of state bloat.

Global Projects

Engage with a Vibrant Ecosystem

NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs are leveraging the network, and the easy-to-use tools at their disposal, to solve the problems only they know best. Aid organizations distribute aid directly to those in need via Stellar Aid Assist. The first U.S. registered blockchain-based money market fund uses the Stellar network to process transactions and record share ownership. And thanks to more than 500k fiat/crypto on- and off-ramps, millions of people worldwide rely on financial apps built on the Stellar network.

Supporting Stellar

The Foundation

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), is a nonprofit committed to the growth and development of the Stellar network. SDF helps to shape the strategic direction, funding, and support for the network and its builders. And it aids in the network’s growth by fostering partnerships, promoting the adoption of the Stellar network’s innovative blockchain technology and building open-source tools for builders to utilize.

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