Stellar: +176% in payments this year

Stellar Lumens (XLM) is the native cryptocurrency of Stellar’s blockchain.  Over the course of 2022, its market value dropped 74%, and right now it is almost -92% from its highs.  Last year, it was affected positively by the big bull run, but failed to update the all-time high of $0.87 touched in January 2018, which was during the peak of the previous cycle.  Last year’s peak was in May at $0.72, which is not far below the $0.87 peak four years ago.  Stellar: the on-chain data This data would suggest an investor flight from XLM, and yet this year Stellar