Imagine that Stellar is that high-end engine that just received a turbocharger with Protocol 23, but is still trying to start on a track where Bitcoin has stolen all the gas. 🏎️💨 The news here is not just that XLM goes up or down, but how a network that already processes 5,000 transactions per second — thanks to its new parallel smart contracts — is fighting to earn the respect it deserves from the market.
Look, the situation is like this: Stellar is not a paper project; it has $144 million locked in its ecosystem and is moving real money. 🏦 Think of the Marshall Islands, where they already have a basic income program running on this network, or RedSwan, which is tokenizing $100 million in real estate. In other words, we are talking about the technology to dominate Real World Assets (RWA) already being there, functioning 24/7. The problem is that, while Bitcoin has 59% market control, altcoins struggle to get their heads above water and breathe. 📉
If we get technical but clear, the XLM chart is giving us mixed signals. On one hand, we have a "death cross" (that bearish crossover that no one likes to see) and the price is struggling below $0.25. 🕯️ For us to really get happy, we need Stellar to break the barrier of $0.32, which is where its 200-day average is. If it doesn't manage to surpass $0.238 soon, we could see sellers pushing the price down to $0.20 before we see a real bounce.
The big question is whether massive utility — like what we are seeing with Shift4 and institutional adoption — will be enough to break Bitcoin's gravity. 🚀 At the end of the day, Stellar has the tools and partnerships, but it lacks the rest of the market to stop looking only at the orange coin and start valuing the infrastructure that is connecting the traditional financial system with the digital future.
Are we facing a sleeping giant that just needs a breath of Bitcoin to explode, or is superior technology no longer enough to win this race?$XLM
