Crypto Market Chaos: Stellar (XLM) Sneaks In, Steals XRP’s Thunder & Your Lunch

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Stellar (XLM), the cryptocurrency most likely to be found wearing oversized sunglasses and pretending it doesn’t know XRP at crypto parties, has pulled off a dramatic moonwalk in price. While the rest of the market was busy deciding whether to panic or invest, Stellar saw its chance-and leapt up a gloriously impractical 16% in just seven days. 🚀 The secret sauce? The great regulatory soap opera, Ripple v. SEC, finally ended. XRP did a little victory dance, and Stellar-never one to waste a good lawsuit-followed. Now both are flourishing like mildly obnoxious houseplants in the spotlight.

XLM price, volume and a suspiciously optimistic RSI

According to CoinMarketCap (which is mainly populated by insomniac spreadsheet enthusiasts), Stellar spiked 16%. Coincidentally, XRP also got a boost, possibly from the power of cosmic irony. Why? Stellar tends to mirror XRP, because that’s what rivals do when they’re not busy pretending they’re original. Thanks to XRP brushing off its legal issues like dandruff, Stellar looks safe from those particular headaches. Perhaps, for once, the stars have aligned – or at least nervously shuffled closer.

With XRP making the crypto world look like a slightly less risky poker table, XLM gets to bask in reflected glory. Institutional players, legendary for their ability to spawn press releases and trade Hong Kong dim sum for Bitcoin, are suddenly talking about Stellar for cross-border payments-truly glamorous stuff if you enjoy sending money to that cousin who claims he’s in Bali but actually needs bail.

Current numbers? Stellar is strutting around at $0.4594, up by 10.87%-from humble beginnings at $0.4044 to the dizzy heights of $0.4678. If only gym memberships performed this well.

The cryptoverse now finds itself in a bout of collective FOMO. Trading volume has decided to run a marathon, leaping 239.16% to $1.06 billion-bankers everywhere are developing RSI just monitoring RSI. Speaking of which, Stellar’s current Relative Strength Index stands at 62.86, so buyers have some room left before the asset enters ‘overbought’ territory (a mystical place where everyone swears eternal love to a coin, then dumps it a day later). 🚴‍♂️

Visa integration: When your crypto gets invited to the grown-up table

Stellar, buoyed by the kind of optimism normally reserved for winning lottery tickets, is threatening to push past $0.50 very soon. If the technical charts are to be believed (and who doesn’t trust lines on a graph?), there’s potential for a price flip that’ll make traders as giddy as accountants at audit season.

Also, Stellar now works with Visa’s stablecoin settlement thingy, which is basically the school disco for cryptos-if you get an invite, everyone thinks you’re cool. More adoption is likely on the way, unless someone trips over a regulation, but for now, XLM is taking victory laps, probably while making mocking faces at XRP. 💼💃

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2025-08-08 19:24