Open - source low - cost cross - asset payment framework Stellar has grown from more than 200,000 stake holders in January to breaking the one million milestone in September . The decentralised , all - in - one cryptocurrency - based payment framework , created by Jed McCaleb , co - founder of hp , has reached a market cap of $ 4bn , and grown from $ 0.003 in August 2014 to $ 0.22 four years later . In May , IBM began exploring for an eco - friendly cryptocurrency on the Stellar platform .
Open-source low-cost cross-asset payment framework Stellar has grown from more than 200,000 account holders in January to breaking the one million milestone in September. The decentralised, all-in-one cryptocurrency-based payment system, created by Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple, has achieved a market cap of $4bn, and grown from $0.003 in August 2014 to $0.22 four years later. In May, IBM began exploring building an eco-friendly cryptocurrency on the Stellar network.