Stellar is a public blockchain network co-founded by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim that enables payments, asset tokenization, and decentralized finance with a focus on financial access. Stellar's Twitter Score is 219 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,207 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Stellar was co-founded by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim and is supported by the Stellar Development Foundation, a Delaware-incorporated nonprofit dedicated to growing the network. The network's native cryptocurrency is the lumen, ticker XLM, and its official site reports settlement times of 9.5 seconds and an average transaction cost of $0.0007667. Stellar previously worked with IBM and KlickEx on cross-border transactions in the South Pacific region.
Stellar has maintained several notable partnerships and milestones. In April 2026, Stellar and MoneyGram extended their partnership to scale real-world stablecoin utility globally. That same month, Franklin Templeton and the Stellar Development Foundation marked five years of BENJI, described as the first U.S.-registered tokenized money market fund. Circle CCTP went live on Stellar in May 2026, and Stellar announced a Quantum Preparedness Plan in June 2026. The network's official site states that more than 500,000 fiat and crypto on- and off-ramps exist on the network and that millions of people rely on financial apps built on it. Stripe is among the backers of the network.
Stellar operates the Stellar Enterprise Fund, a venture-style fund for growing the open-source Stellar network, with a reported portfolio totaling over $100 million. Stellar's portfolio includes Huma Finance, Afriex and Skrmiish. Stellar has accumulated 848,912 followers as of July 2026 and has published 10,379 posts. Stellar has been mentioned by 1,396 accounts a total of 7,188 times.
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The accounts that follow Stellar include 788 founders, 121 angel investors, 432 influencers and 69 VCs. Among them are Brian Armstrong, Toly, Laura Shin, CoinDesk, Kyle Samani and Andrew Kang.