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Stellar Alternatives

Alternatives to Stellar and Ripple for payments and cross-border settlement

Alternatives to Stellar and Ripple: When It’s Worth Switching

If you are on Stellar or Ripple and it is working, stay — both are strong payment networks.

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How we cover this

Stellar Alternatives publishes plain-English explainers written by named contributors. Figures are labelled with their source and dated, and pages are revised when the underlying facts change.

Editorial independence

We are not paid to feature any provider, and no company reviewed here has any say over what we publish.

What this is not

General information only. Nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice, and we do not move money or hold funds.

Who writes here

Dina Haddad

Dina covered remittance corridors for a MENA fintech newsletter before joining. She writes the remittance-angle pages. Register: corridor-first, practical about what receivers actually experience.

Ivan Petrov

Ivan spent eight years as a payments architect evaluating and migrating cross-border stacks across Eastern Europe and the Gulf. He writes the alternative and migration comparisons. Register: candid, migration-minded, weighs switching cost honestly.

Everything published here is editorial commentary, not financial, legal or tax advice.