2018 was a difficult year for cryptocurrencies, with wide-scale falls in value. The price of XLM dropped 68.93% since it opened at $0.3540 on January 1st, 2018. It closed on December 31st, 2018 at $0.1100.
Despite the dramatic loss in price over 2018, XLM is still one of the biggest, most well known, and most widely traded cryptocurrencies around. It is one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation:
Monthly XLM price (US$) and monthly change
| Date | Open | Close | Monthly change | Annual change |
| Jan-18 | 0.3540 | 0.5329 | 50.55% | 50.55% |
| Feb-18 | 0.5329 | 0.3305 | -37.99% | -6.64% |
| Mar-18 | 0.3305 | 0.2045 | -38.12% | -42.23% |
| Apr-18 | 0.2045 | 0.4226 | 106.63% | 19.36% |
| May-18 | 0.4226 | 0.2957 | -30.02% | -16.47% |
| Jun-18 | 0.2957 | 0.1933 | -34.63% | -45.40% |
| Jul-18 | 0.1933 | 0.2788 | 44.25% | -21.24% |
| Aug-18 | 0.2788 | 0.2215 | -20.57% | -37.44% |
| Sep-18 | 0.2215 | 0.2581 | 16.55% | -27.08% |
| Oct-18 | 0.2581 | 0.2268 | -12.13% | -35.93% |
| Nov-18 | 0.2268 | 0.1595 | -29.70% | -54.95% |
| Dec-18 | 0.1595 | 0.1100 | -31.03% | -68.93% |
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US Dollar – XLMUSD
British Pound Sterling – XLMGBP
Japanese Yen – XLMJPY
Euro – XLMEUR
Australian Dollar – XLMAUD
Russian Rouble – XLMRUB
Bitcoin – XLMBTC
In addition, we regularly publish an XLM price analysis:
About Stellar
Stellar was founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim. At launch, it was based on the Ripple protocol, but the network eventually forked. Stellar is an open source protocol for exchanging money where servers use the internet to connect to and communicate with other Stellar servers, forming a global value exchange network.
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