Stellar price falls below $0.14 to its lowest since November 2024, nine days before the Bell vote

What is documented: Stellar (XLM) cost $0.1373 at 6:47 pm CET on Saturday, 7.7 percent less than 24 hours earlier and 9.3 percent less than a week ago (CoinGecko). In euros that was around €0.124. The price thus fell to its lowest level since November 2024 and, nine days before the vote on Protocol 30, known as Bell, sits well below all of its moving averages. Our assessment follows further down in a section of its own.

There is no Stellar-specific trigger. XLM is falling with the whole market, led by Bitcoin, which stood at $65,796 the same evening, 4.6 percent below the previous day and 13.6 percent below its level seven days earlier (CoinGecko). Holders face three questions: where the next floor lies, what the November 23 date brings, and how to limit risk without selling in panic.

Stellar price today: $0.137 and down 7.7 percent in 24 hours

The range over the past 24 hours ran from $0.1499 to $0.1365, according to CoinGecko. On Kraken, the daily low of November 14 was $0.1350. Market value fell to $4.86bn, enough for 20th place among all cryptocurrencies. XLM now trades a little more than 84 percent below its record high of $0.8756 from January 2018.

Trading volume stayed relatively calm at $222m in 24 hours. A sell-off with panic volume looks different: the decline stems more from a lack of buyers than from a wave of selling aimed at Stellar.

How low is XLM compared with the past two years?

We analysed Kraken's daily candles for XLM against the dollar, 721 trading days since November 24, 2024. Not a single daily low in that period was below the value of November 14, 2026. cryptoticker.io compiled this analysis itself on November 14, 2026. For chartists, this means there is no trading zone below the current price in the past two years where buyers have shown up before.

Correlation with Bitcoin: XLM moves down with the wider market

Correlation measures how closely two prices move in step; 1 means perfect alignment, 0 means no relationship. Over the past 30 daily returns of XLM and Bitcoin on Kraken, we arrive at 0.74. In our article of November 5, we had measured 0.84 using Binance data. The figure has dipped slightly, but Stellar still follows Bitcoin on most days.

Bitcoin itself has fallen below its 200-week line, the average of weekly closing prices over almost four years. Since its record of $126,080 on October 6, 2025, the largest cryptocurrency has lost 47.8 percent (CoinGecko). XLM fell harder than Bitcoin on Saturday, by 7.7 percent against 4.6 percent in 24 hours.

Since November 5: the old 30-day low at $0.151 has broken

Nine days ago, in our article on the Stellar price below the 200-day line, we named $0.151 as the next floor. At the time, XLM closed at $0.1528 on Kraken. The level held for only two days: on November 7 the daily low fell to $0.1496, on November 13 the coin closed at $0.1460, and on Saturday came the slide below $0.14.

Since November 5, XLM has thus lost around 10 percent. The condition we set out back then has been met: Bitcoin did not hold the zone around $75,000, and the 30-day low was the first level to give way.

Stellar price levels: 200-day line at $0.182, no support below

Moving averages smooth the price over a fixed number of days. By our calculation from Kraken closing prices, the 50-day average stands at $0.1829 and the 200-day average at $0.1822. Both lines are therefore almost on top of each other and around 33 percent above the current price.

The picture is clearer to the upside than to the downside. The November 7 low at just under $0.15 is the first hurdle a recovery attempt would have to clear. To the downside, only the fresh daily low remains as a reference.

Protocol 30 Bell: the mainnet vote on November 23 at 17:00 UTC

The Stellar Development Foundation, the foundation behind the network, lists two dates on its protocol upgrades page: validators voted on the testnet on November 3, and they vote on the mainnet on November 23 at 17:00 UTC, 18:00 CET. The foundation states explicitly that the dates may still change.

Validators are the servers that confirm transactions on the Stellar network. If a sufficient majority of them approves, the new protocol version applies from the next ledger. On Stellar, a ledger is the block in which all transactions of a given time slice are recorded.

Nothing changes for holders' balances. There is no migration, old addresses remain valid and nobody has to move XLM. The foundation only asks operators to act: anyone using a Stellar SDK should switch to the latest version before the vote, because older versions may not be able to read Protocol 30 ledgers.

CAP-84, CAP-87 and CAP-88: the three changes in Bell

A CAP is a Core Advancement Proposal, a formal request to change the network rules. Bell bundles three of them, as the foundation describes in its blog post introducing Bell:

• CAP-84 allows contract addresses with a 64-bit identifier. A smart account can thus manage many customers behind a single address; the new addresses start with W.
• CAP-87 brings verification of ML-DSA signatures to smart contracts. ML-DSA is a signature scheme that the US standards body NIST adopted in 2024 as a quantum-resistant standard. Transaction signatures on the network stay with Ed25519 for now.
• CAP-88 switches ledger time from whole seconds to milliseconds. This lays the groundwork for faster ledgers; with Protocol 28 in September, the time between two ledgers on mainnet had already fallen from about 5.7 to 5 seconds.

All three changes are aimed at companies that process payments on Stellar: exchanges, payment providers and stablecoin issuers. For investors, that means the changes strengthen the infrastructure but do not automatically create new demand for XLM.

Does an upgrade move the XLM price?

The data show no direct link. After Protocol 28 in September, XLM did not rise but fell for weeks. Technical upgrades improve the basis for applications; they rarely determine demand for the coin within days.

Fear and Greed Index at 13: extreme fear in the crypto market

The Fear and Greed Index from alternative.me combines sentiment data such as volatility, trading volume and search queries into a single number between 0 and 100. On Saturday it stood at 13, after 20 on Friday. Both fall into the "Extreme Fear" band.

Our assessment: Stellar is likely to stay tied to Bitcoin until the vote on November 23. The 30-day correlation of 0.74 and the absence of a trigger of its own for the decline point that way. An index reading of 13 shows the mood; on its own it is not a buy signal. On the other side, Bell brings quantum-resistant signatures to smart contracts on Stellar for the first time with ML-DSA, giving the coin its own catalyst once the market calms down. In our view, what matters most is whether Bitcoin finds a floor below the 200-week line. Crypto assets can fall all the way to a total loss.

Buying Stellar: MiCA licence and custody

Anyone buying or adding XLM after the decline should do so with a provider licensed under MiCA, the European regulation on crypto assets. Among other things, it obliges exchanges and brokers in the EU to keep client funds segregated. Which platforms hold a licence and what they charge for XLM is shown in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges. A provider's licence can also be checked in the public register of the European supervisor ESMA.

One Stellar peculiarity concerns deposits: many exchanges keep all customers under a shared XLM address and tell them apart with a memo, a short payment identifier. If the memo is missing, the deposit reaches the exchange but not your account. CAP-84 is meant to solve exactly this problem for smart contracts. If you want to hold XLM yourself, our hardware wallet comparison lists suitable devices.

Leverage and liquidation in XLM: the risk with perpetuals

Perpetuals are futures contracts without an expiry date that traders use to bet on rising or falling prices, usually with leverage. With 5x leverage, a price drop of around 20 percent almost completely wipes out the collateral of a long position; the exchange then closes the position by force, which is called liquidation. XLM has lost around 10 percent since November 5 and 9.3 percent in seven days.

If you already hold a leveraged position, the fastest way to cut risk is to reduce leverage or add collateral. Anyone betting on falling prices carries the opposite risk: in a countermove, short positions can be liquidated just as quickly. Our perp DEX comparison sets out fees, funding rates and collateral rules of decentralised trading venues.

Stellar before November 23: no turnaround without a Bitcoin floor

All in all, XLM will depend more on the wider market than on its own upgrade in the days ahead. Three steps help you use the time until the vote in an orderly way:

1. Check your provider: Buy XLM only on a platform with a MiCA licence. Fees and licences are listed in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges.
2. Limit leverage: With a coin that loses 9.3 percent in seven days, high leverage is a liquidation risk. Terms for leveraged positions are in the perp DEX comparison.
3. Sort out custody: If you plan to hold XLM for the long term, you can move the coins to a wallet of your own. Suitable devices are listed in our hardware wallet comparison.

(As of November 14, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)