--- title: "Stellar (XLM) price and news" language: en canonical: "https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/stellar" --- # Stellar (XLM) price and news Sampled market data; prices and returns do not verify news or establish causation. - Price: $0.18375; 24h: +3.59% - Market source / sampled at (UTC): Gate · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:40 - Events received in 30 days: 1 ## Why is Stellar up 3.6% today? As of 21/10/2026, 07:40 (UTC), XLM was sampled at $0.18375, +3.59% over 24 hours (Gate · USDT). For the closed-hour 24h window: XLM largely moved with the market. XLM rose further than this on 7 of the past 29 days. Stellar rose over the latest 24 hours largely in line with Bitcoin given its usual sensitivity, a market-wide move in which most other tracked coins moved the same way. Trading volume was below usual. No recent report about the coin explains the move, so the cause is unresolved; the bitcoin-focused reports of the day are background only. - Versus Bitcoin: +2.94% / BTC +1.21%; +1.1 pts left after BTC × its hourly beta 1.57 - Versus the past month: 7 of the past 29 days rose further; Closed-hour 24h move +2.94%, 1.2× its prior 30-day median of 2.4%. - 30-day range: 22.9% below the high · 6.5% above the low; From hourly highs and lows on the same venue - Other tracked coins: 16 of 17 moved the same way - 24h volume: 0.5×; of its prior 30-day daily average - Perpetual swap: funding negative · open interest flat; OKX perpetual swap XLM-USDT-SWAP Computed 21/10/2026, 07:00 (UTC) from OKX · USDT hourly candles; this window and venue may differ from the live ticker above. ### Open questions - Whether any project-specific development affected Stellar, which an official statement from the Stellar Development Foundation or on-chain data would settle. - Whether the market-wide rise reflected broader risk appetite rather than anything specific to the coin, which market-wide flow and derivatives data across exchanges would clarify. ## Prior 30-day hourly baseline - Coverage: 100.0% (720/720) - Median absolute hourly return: +0.37% - 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns: +2.93% - BTC beta: 1.57 - Source / cutoff (UTC): OKX · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:41 Hourly statistics cannot be compared directly with minute moves. Missing or stale baselines are not estimated. ## Recent publication-ready events and observed returns Returns start after site detection. Each linked event records its actual sampled intervals, venue, quote currency and news sources. Missing windows remain unavailable; publisher coverage is not independent verification. | Event | Evidence | 5m | 1h | 24h | 5m difference from BTC | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Stellar Core v30.0.0 released]() | Official source (1 publisher) | — | — | — | — | [Complete paginated archive]() [Methods and limitations]()