Stellar is a decentralized, open-source platform for building and running financial applications. It was founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple, and Joyce Kim, and is designed to be fast, cheap, and scalable. One of the key features of Stellar is its use of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) called the "Stellar Consensus Protocol" (SCP). This allows the Stellar network to achieve fast and efficient consensus on the state of the ledger, making it well-suited for financial appl...