No single dated event in the next 90 days.
No new coins. The Foundation keeps releasing its pile.
XLM runs Stellar: 35.06B coins circulate out of 50.00B. The rest sits mostly with the Foundation.
Sell pressure. The Foundation released 884.2M XLM into the market in 90 days, nearly every week, from 14.67B it still holds. Nothing vests and nothing is minted.
Buy pressure. Only fees leave: 672.7K XLM parked in a pool no one can spend.
Net. Net, supply grows about 2.52% in 90 days, and the same next.
No new XLM is created. The network ended its 1% yearly inflation in 2019, and the network's own coin count did not change by a single coin in these 90 days, while the fee count kept rising next to it.
XLM has no vesting calendar. The old time-locked accounts from 2021–2023 are empty (2 XLM each). Everything not yet circulating sits with the Foundation, the upgrade reserve or the fee pool, covered in the rows below.
The Stellar Development Foundation holds 14.67B XLM in 15 known accounts that are not counted as circulating: Growth 5.33B, Product and Innovation 3.45B, Assets and Liquidity 3.32B, Development 2.57B. In these 90 days it sent 992.9M XLM to outside wallets and got 108.6M back, so 884.2M joined the float, about 9.8M a day, almost every week. It released 3.0B in the last 12 months. In October it also moved 707M from its other funds into its Development accounts, the ones that pay out most often.
The network upgrade reserve holds 258.9M XLM for holders of the 2014 tokens who never switched. Nobody claimed any in these 90 days (it only received dust), and it has no release date. No bankruptcy estate holds XLM for distribution.
Nothing buys XLM back. The network has no buyback, and the Foundation does not run one.
Fees are not destroyed; they are parked (row 5). The burn account from 2019 received only 0.21 XLM of dust since July, so no burn is booked.
The Foundation sells and gives out XLM; nothing shows it buying. The 108.6M that came back to its accounts were returns from wallets it had paid, already netted in sell row 3.
XLM has no staking and no new lock contract with a set amount. Coins held in apps and contracts still count as circulating.
Every transaction fee goes into a network pool that no one can spend, so those coins leave the float. The pool grew by 672,701 XLM in 90 days, about 7,500 a day, to 10.83M. Network upgrades on Sep 16 and Oct 1 2026 did not change fees, so the next 90 days keep the same rate.
Two sides: how much people want XLM right now, and how much buying could come later.
This part is based on social media. It shows how hot XLM is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about XLM for two reasons:
Stellar said on Oct 13 2026 that Chainlink data feeds are now live on its network. Stellar says it has more than $4B of real-world assets on chain that can use these prices. People ask which lending and trading apps on Stellar will use the new data first.
XLM was near $0.18 on Oct 17 2026, down about 9% in seven days after hot US inflation data hit the whole market. The good network news has not lifted the price yet. People ask what could make XLM catch up with bitcoin.
Checked Oct 17 2026
By the law of supply and demand, Stellar's long-run signal is negative (Oct 18 2026, score 3.5/10). New supply: +2.52% in the next 90 days. Demand: weak (2/5). Stellar's price drivers: 1 ▲ price up, 0 ▼ price down.
About 14.9B XLM, going by our Oct 12 2026 numbers. Total supply is 50.0B and 35.06B is circulating, so roughly 30% is not out yet. No max supply is listed, so we keep an eye on that gap. Supply and demand still read negative for Stellar in the long run.
At $10, Stellar would be worth about $351B in total — about 50 times its $6.97B market cap today (Oct 18 2026, about 19.9 cents a coin). Stellar's supply also grows +10.08% in the next year, so every extra coin needs buyers too. By supply and demand, Stellar's long-run signal is negative today.
Stellar's signal is negative for now. Stellar's signal would turn if new supply keeps arriving (+2.52% in 90 days), or demand falls from weak. The next date on Stellar's calendar: No date yet — Spot XLM ETF decision.
Stellar sits at 3.5/10 today (Oct 18 2026): supply 1.5/5, demand 2/5. One more year adds +10.08% to Stellar's supply. Long-run signal: negative.
By the law of supply and demand, the better time to start a position in Stellar is when its new supply is low, demand is high and its price drivers point up. Stellar today: +2.52% new supply in 90 days (heavy), demand weak (2/5), drivers 1 ▲ / 0 ▼.
Right now 2 things drive Stellar's price (1 ▲, 0 ▼). ▲ Real-world money: Tokenized assets on Stellar grew about 4.6x in 2026 • ETF and upgrades: No spot XLM ETF yet; Grayscale's trust holds only 117M XLM
Side by side on Oct 18 2026: Stellar at 3.5/10 with a negative signal, Bitcoin at 8.5/10 with a positive signal. By supply and demand, Stellar is the weaker of the two.
Every answer here applies basic economic theory — the law of supply and demand — to this coin's data. It is not financial advice. How we read every coin →
We look at two things, half each: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. A meme coin scores 1.5 at most on supply: its team got its coins for free, so no new supply does not make it safe. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand looks at how much people want the coin now and how much buying could come later. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss; they have no score. XLM supply grows +2.52% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more XLM reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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