Historical replay · XLM/USD
Stellar's Round Trip (May-June 2026)
Stellar more than doubled in a week to $0.2982 on May 30, 2026 — then spent the next eleven days giving back 39%. A rally-to-crash replay in which the hardest part came after the top.
Stellar's XLM, the native token of a payments-focused blockchain, spent most of May 2026 between about $0.14 and $0.15 on Binance, trading roughly $4-6 million a day. The replay opens on May 26, one of the last quiet sessions before that changed.
The rally came in three steep days. XLM rose 11% on May 27, 24% on May 28 and 27% on May 29, while daily trading value jumped from about $5 million to $175-187 million. The strongest single hour, at 19:00 UTC on May 29, added 10%. At 03:00 UTC on May 30, XLM reached $0.2982, more than double its May 23 low of $0.1395.
The very next hour was the worst of the whole episode: a 9.8% drop, from $0.2936 to $0.2647. May 30 closed down 11.5% at $0.2296. The market tried once to recover — XLM bounced 13% on May 31 and touched $0.2744 in the early hours of June 1 — but the rebound stopped about 8% short of the peak, and the selling resumed.
What followed was not one crash but a grind: down 6.5% on June 1, 8.5% on June 2, 6.2% on June 3 and 3.4% on June 4, with volume staying high, at $75-140 million a day, as the buyers of May 29 and 30 looked for the exit. June 4 and 5 coincided with a broad crypto sell-off in which Zcash, among others, lost more than half its value in two days. XLM's low in this window, $0.1811 at 21:00 UTC on June 10, was 39% below the peak — back to where the price had been on May 28.
Replayed hour by hour, the episode shows how different the two halves of a round trip feel. The rally took three days and felt unstoppable. The decline took eleven, and after that first hour it never produced a single candle as dramatic as the ones on the way up. For anyone who bought near $0.29, there was no obvious moment to act — only a long series of small, believable bounces.