Stellar Quick overview

Introduction

Stellar is a non-profit payment network based on blockchain which eliminates the need for the bank by giving substitute of any bank institution.  It is a distributed blockchain ledger that provides cross-asset transfers in no time along with its robust database system. Its digital asset is Lumens (XLM).

Influencers

This project is influenced by significantly major names of blockchain industry.

• Nicolas Barry - CTO
• Bartek Nowotarski- Developer
• David Mazières - Chief Scientist
• Boris Reznikov - Partnerships
• Ella Qiang - Partnerships China

Technology

Stellar has presented its own Stellar Consensus Protocol(SCP) which makes no assumptions about attackers. It has surpassed both existing consensus proof-of-stake & proof-of-work algorithms and opened a new door to modest computing & finances. By the use of SCP barriers to enter and open financial system is lessened.

Advantages

• A very little fee of any transaction which is about 0.00001 XLM ($0. 000005)
• Instant transaction within 0-5 seconds
• A non-profit organization, community owned.
• Big partners like IBM and DELOITTE

Disadvantages

• It is a pre-mined coin
• A limited number of XLM are available
• XLM lower price

Whitepaper

In official whitepapers, they have explained in detail all about stellar consensus protocol along with its implementation and working on the Stellar platform. One of the parts consists of limitations that are associated with SCP.

Real Examples

Stellar known to be a substitute for banks; provides all expected services but the difference is all this happen on a decentralized network. Users can use stellar to transfer their funds from one to other without paying large fees of any third party. It let the remittances to simple enough by sending money across borders. The user can use any currency to transfer by using XLM, a digital asset of Stellar. The transaction price is a tiny part of XLM which ultimately beats the big names money transfer companies.

Fundamental Analysis

A decentralized network with its own SCP and runs each transaction independently and eliminates any single party to be a primary source. Stellar doesn’t rely on any third party while processing transaction as the idea behind this is to make the system robust and transparent by independent servers.

Technical Analysis

SCP cannot give a blocked state until unless failure from a participant side has occurred. SCP is proved to be the secure consensus mechanism with key properties including decentralized control, Low latency, flexible trust, and security.

Investors

• Plug and Play - Early-stage investment firm focusing on technology start-ups.
• Innovating Capital - Early-stage technology fund, partnering with innovative entrepreneurs
• James Sowers - ICO And Crypto Asset Ambassador
• Dean Patrick - General Partner
• Julian Sarokin - CEO
• Stripe - Provides a set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enable businesses to accept and manage online payments.

Roadmap

• SDEX – the Stellar Decentralized Exchange
• Lightning Network on Stellar

Along with above-stated goals Stellar is aimed to:

• better overall brand communication
• more implementation walk-throughs to help people get going
• better technical documentation, including release notes
• continued improvement to our Horizon API and the surrounding SDKs

Conclusion

Being no-profit organization, they are expected to bring a noticeable change in finance around the world. Another benefit of the growth of Stellar is to provide services to those who are not connected to the bank. Stellar is positive in all way user-friendly, transparent, open-source and the most important low-cost transactions.