I was thinking, in the real world, I mean let's be real here, how much could XLM worth it at end of year? Or maybe in 3 years?
ATH was never hit again, even though the project is active and growing the currency is always stuck. Every time we see a push it just goes down quickly, maybe there will never be enough liquidity to the token to increase price?
What you guys thoughts?
Hey which wallet can I use to store usdt in XLM network?
And how can I transfer funds from BEP20 to XLM network?
I sold over and over making about $40,000 from
Trades. I feel like should have held and not sold. A bag that big would have got me close to my goal. I feel after Clarity Act pass and some of the adoption for xlm we will not see a drop after a pump for a long time.
I am down 90% almost. I deleted robin-hood atm. I cant even look at my portfolio.
I hope xlm soars soon unlike xrp.
I will be holding onto my bag with dear life hopefully soon things will take a turn for good. September?
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I might be wrong, but I have a feeling that a strong bull run for Stellar is about to start today.
What do you guys think? Is today the right time?
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Hey everyone, Joshua here from Peridot.
Something I wish more people asked before parking money anywhere in crypto, including with us, is the simplest possible question: where is this yield actually coming from?
Because yield isn't magic. If something's paying you 8%, 12%, 20%, that money is coming from somewhere (or it's coming from somewhere that's going to blow up eventually).
Here are some of the places real yield comes from.
Lending interest
You put money in, someone else borrows it and pays interest, you get a cut. This is the boring, sustainable one, same basic idea as a bank, except you can actually see the loans. The rate moves with how badly people want to borrow.
Examples on Stellar:
Blend - https://blend.capital/
Peridot - https://peridot.finance/
Trading fees
You provide funds that traders use to swap between assets, and you earn a slice of every trade. It comes with its own risks that are easy to underestimate, e.g. Impermanent Loss, which happens when the price gain on an asset you'd have just by holding it (say XLM) ends up outweighing the trading fees you earned by deploying it as liquidity on a decentralized exchange.
Examples on Stellar:
Aquarius - https://aqua.network/
Soroswap - https://soroswap.finance/
Token incentives
The project prints its own token and hands it to you to sweeten the rate. This is the one to watch. It's not fake exactly, but the APY you get from it depends on the token's price and how much of it gets handed out relative to how many people are claiming it. A "20% APY" that's mostly this can evaporate the moment the printing slows down or the token price drops. A lot of eye-popping numbers in DeFi are mostly this dressed up to look like the boring sustainable kind.
Examples on Stellar:
Aquarius - https://aqua.network/
Blend - https://blend.capital/
Vault strategies
Instead of you manually picking where to deposit, a vault does it for you, automatically routing your funds into one or more of the sources above (usually lending or LPing) and rebalancing as conditions change. The yield is still coming from those underlying sources, so the same questions apply, plus one more: what's the vault itself taking off the top? Most charge a management or performance fee, so the rate you see is what's left after their cut. Convenient, but always worth knowing what you're actually paying for the autopilot.
Examples on Stellar:
DefIndex - https://www.defindex.io/
So the red flags are pretty simple: yield with no explanation of where it comes from, yield paid only in the project's own coin, or a number way higher than the underlying activity could realistically produce. If nobody can explain the source in one sentence, assume you're the source.
To ask yourself this question in DeFi is very important. It's the single best filter I know of. Happy to go deeper on any of the four in the comments or for any other questions which you have.
Order blocks are likely concentrated just above and below the $0.17 / €0.15 marks. Initiating a position at these current levels is a strategically viable entry point.
As we look closer to July 13th, the DTCC is set to initiate its limited production trades for the new DTC Tokenization Service (handling tokenized US Treasuries, ETFs, and Russell 1000 assets).
Given the massive news from late May where DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation announced plans to bridge DTC-custodied assets directly to the Stellar public blockchain, I’m curious about the community's sentiment for the upcoming weeks.
On one hand, the July 13th launch is primarily focusing on the initial Canton network phase, and the full Stellar integration is slated to roll out a bit later. On the other hand, the market loves to "buy the rumor, sell the news," and XLM has already been showing strong momentum recently (flirting with a major Golden Cross on the daily charts).
Do you think we will see a speculative pump leading up to July 13th as traditional finance takes a massive step toward public rails? Or will the price remain relatively flat until the actual asset migration onto Stellar goes live?
What are your short-term price targets for XLM by mid-July? Let's discuss the fundamentals vs speculative price action here.
XLM has been silent… but deadly.
While everyone chases the loudest hype, Stellar has quietly been building real payment rails, real asset movement, and real-world blockchain utility.
No screaming.
No constant noise.
Just infrastructure being built under everybody’s nose.
That’s what makes XLM different.
The market may ignore quiet builders for a while, but utility has a way of speaking louder than hype when the time comes.
Stellar isn’t trying to be the loudest chain.
It’s trying to be one of the most useful.
