The world’s most well-known Bitcoin wallet is giving away Stellar crypto currency worth $125 million as portion of a main activity to advance its utilization as a mainstream means of payment.
Blockchain, named after the innovation that powers Bitcoin, will reward its 30 million clients with $25 worth Stellar Lumen (XLM) for gratis beginning this week, making it the biggest crypto airdrop in history.
The main motive for giving away stellar rather than other well-known cryptos such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, Blockchain clarifies in a blog post, is that its platform is appropriate for large-scale utilization.
Commenting on the giveaway, Blockchain CEO Peter Smith, wrote “[Stellar’s] token, XLM, enables quick, low cost, worldwide transactions, even when millions of people are using it at once.”
Peter Smith further stated “We’re excited to add an entirely new way for users to get their first crypto… By growing the Blockchain community, we can help more people own and control their financial future.”
As part of the promotional gift or “airdrop,” Blockchain works with organizations to help build the crypto community, including the emerging technology initiative Code.org and Stanford d.school.
Most popular crypto wallet with over 25 million users added Lumens as 4th asset (after BTC, ETH & BCH) and announced $125 Million XLM airdrop!https://t.co/yUBx0aWQkD https://t.co/pOuLGDTGSY
— Stellar Lumens (@StellarLumens) November 6, 2018
These partnerships are hoped to further promote the acceptance of users by increasing Stellar’s availability and usability in both developed and developing countries.
Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Stellar Development Foundation, had the following to say about the airdrop:
“By working with Blockchain to increase the availability and active use of lumens on the network, leveraging their almost 30 million wallets, we will increase the network’s utility by many orders of magnitude.”
Stellar’s price is broadly in line with Bitcoin’s after encountering gigantic development at the end of 2017, before enduring critical misfortunes in 2018. In later months the price has been moderately steady and is right now exchanging at around $ 0.26, but Stellar’s current transaction volume is lower than 2% of Bitcoin’s trades.
Blockchain CEO Diminish Smith, at the web Summit conference in Lisbon on Tuesday, November 6th, showcased his vision for raising understanding and utilization of crypto cash.
Smith told the audience “We’re doing this because we want you to truly understand crypto. And the only way to truly understand it is to use it.”
