What Influences XLM Price?
As with any cryptocurrency, the price of the Lumen is primarily driven by speculation. However, the other factors that play a role in its price are equally important to understand. The Stellar platform has also done a lot of work to make sure that its conditions favor the price of the Lumen as positively as possible:
The Stellar Consensus Protocol
The Stellar Consensus protocol relieves each user of the platform from the need to confirm each transaction they make on the network. A consensus algorithm is used instead, making each transaction take less than a few seconds. Therefore, all transactions on the network are faster than they would be on other platforms. With faster transactions, XLM can have a greater volume of trades.
Strategic Partnerships
Throughout the time Stellar has been active, it has prioritized making meaningful and strategic partnerships. All these connections are made to enhance the users’ experience by making the coin stronger and more affordable. The most notable partnership made by Stellar was with IBM’s Blockchain World Wire.
Use of Smart Contracts
Stellar is not only strategic and intentional about partnerships, but it is also serious about its contracts. They use smart contracts that are the safest and most reliable in the industry today.
Affordable Transaction Rates
As mentioned earlier, Stellar charges a minimum transaction commission that is only 0.00001 Lumens. This is considerably low and makes the Lumen highly competitive against banks and remittances. This helps raise the price of the coin.
Competitive Technology and Innovation
The technology and services offered at Stellar are state-of-the-art. The cost of services is also low in addition to the platform being highly accessible and user-friendly. These factors make Stellar tough competition for its competitors.
Right now XLM’s greatest competitor is Ripple (XRP). Widely popular and mainstream, Ripple still meets a worthy opponent in XLM, frequently outperforming it.
Non-Traditional Staking Option for Lumens
In traditional staking, investors lock up part of their cryptocurrency for several years to contribute to a particular blockchain network in exchange for rewards. These rewards can be anything from coins to tokens.
However, with XLM, investors are not offered this option at the moment. Instead, Lumens can be staked through inflation mechanisms. This technique is risky because it is complicated. Most investors, therefore, avoid it. The effect this has is making the Lumen a relatively stable cryptocurrency because it is rarely affected by drastic price drops.