Powering Global Payment Solutions Stellar, which was originally created as a fork of Ripple, is an open-source, distributed payments infrastructure connecting people, payment systems and banks. <1> The Stellar network is: Extremely fast, with a median processing time of 5 seconds; Affordable, processing 600,000 transactions for only $0.01; Scaleable, with the ability to handle 1000 transactions per second; and Global, meaning it can handle cross-border payments and process tr