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GXLM Grayscale Stellar Lumens Trust (XLM)

A spot Stellar trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.Grayscale2.50% feeFirst traded Oct 19, 2021SEC filings ↗Every Grayscale fund ETFIQ covers

Over the year to Oct 20, 2026, GXLM lost 25.2%, against −45.5% for Stellar.

−25.2%
Total return, 1 year
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−45.5%
Stellar over the same days
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+37.3%
Difference against Stellar, compounded
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1,256
Days it has traded
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Price, 1 year

$22.40+0.9%1 day, priceClose, Oct 20, 2026

Price only. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Updated every trading night. Last checked Oct 21, 2026. Report a data error

Where every fund in this set sits

How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?

Share of the coin's growth it kept
LTCN 90.2%GBTC 98.5%ETHE 99.0%BTCO 99.6%ETHA 99.6%QETH 99.6%ARKB 99.7%, and 11 more at this point: BITB 99.7%, BRRR 99.7%, BTCW 99.7%, ETHW 99.7%, EZBC 99.7%, EZET 99.7%, FBTC 99.7%, FETH 99.7%, IBIT 99.7%, BTC 99.8%, ETHV 99.8%HODL 100.0%XRP 100.0%TETH 100.4%ETH 101.6%OBTC 106.0%GXLM 137.3%GXLM 137.3%90.2%137.3%
90.2% to 137.3% across 24

That is the share of the 24 spot crypto trusts with a full year sitting at or below GXLM.

Share of the coin's own price growth a holder kept; funds on different coins are ranked together. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.

97.9
IQ Crypto ScoreETFIQ Coin Capture Score1st of 24 · Oct 20, 2026
2.1 · lowest of 24 spot crypto trusts with a full year97.9 · highest

How much of its coin's move it captured, after costs, ranked against 24 spot crypto trusts with a full year. 100 is best. How it is computed

GXLM kept 137.3% of what holding Stellar gave over the same days.

share of the coin's growth it kept137.3% · 98th pct
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GXLM returns by window: total return, cash paid and price change
WindowTotal returnStellarDifference, percentage points
1M Sep 18 – Oct 20, 2026−13.6%−7.8%−5.8 pts
3M Jul 21 – Oct 20, 2026−11.5%−7.1%−4.4 pts
6M Apr 21 – Oct 20, 2026+7.4%+2.0%+5.5 pts
YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 20, 2026+21.4%−9.8%+34.6% of its growth
1Y Oct 20, 2025 – Oct 20, 2026−25.2%−45.5%+37.3% of its growth
3Y Oct 20, 2023 – Oct 20, 2026−2.0%+64.6%−40.4% of its growth
5Y Oct 21, 2021 – Oct 20, 2026−73.2%−52.0%−44.1% of its growth
Since launch Oct 19, 2021 – Oct 20, 2026−59.3%−51.6%−15.8% of its growth
Since launch, annualised Oct 19, 2021 – Oct 20, 2026−16.4%––

Total return at closing prices, distributions reinvested. Year to date runs from the last close of the year before. Annualised is the steady yearly rate that gives the since-launch total over the same days. Source: ETFIQ.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested. Data as of Oct 20, 2026. Updated every trading night. Last checked Oct 21, 2026. Report a data error

GXLM key stats

52-week high, daily closes to Oct 20, 2026 (ETFIQ)$30.30 on Oct 27, 2025
52-week low, daily closes to Oct 20, 2026 (ETFIQ)$14.23 on Mar 3, 2026
Close on Oct 20, 2026, within that range (ETFIQ)$22.4, 51% of the way from the low to the high
Range, beta and R-squared computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

About GXLM

Doing it would read +20.3 pts, which is correct and describes nothing a holder can act on: what the figure above states is the gap between the two growth factors, so a fund that kept 137% of what holding the coin gave says exactly that.
SponsorGrayscale
HoldsStellarReport
Sponsor’s fee (10-Q)2.50%
Stakingthe chain has none, so no fund holding it can pay a staking yield
First tradedOct 19, 2021
Days traded1,256
Days it closed unchanged46
Quotedon an exchange, every trading day
Price$22.4
Reports to the SEC on10-K, not N-PORT
How we measure
Over the year to Oct 20, 2026, Stellar moved −45.5% and GXLM returned −25.2%. That leaves it 37.3% ahead once both returns are compounded. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only figure on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. GXLM charges 2.50% a year and finished 37.3% ahead of Stellar, which a fee cannot do on its own. On a chain with nothing to stake, a fund cannot earn its way past the asset it holds: what moved is what the market paid for the shares. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Stellar it custodies.
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed

Questions people ask about GXLM

Does GXLM track Stellar?
Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned −25.2% against Stellar’s −45.5%, which leaves it 37.3% ahead once both returns are compounded. That difference carries the fee, the custody cost and the market’s pricing of the shares, and ETFIQ computes it from the fund’s own closes and the coin’s own closes over the same two dates.
Does GXLM stake?
The Stellar Ledger settles by a consensus its validators are not paid for, so there is nothing to stake and no fund holding Stellar can pay a staking yield.
What is GXLM?
Grayscale Stellar Lumens Trust (XLM), a spot Stellar trust sponsored by Grayscale, first traded Oct 19, 2021. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
Sources and dates
Prices, GXLM and StellarPrices, Tiingo end of day ↗
Fee, 2.50%Sponsor’s fee, read from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 ↗
All fund filingsFilings on SEC EDGAR ↗
IssuerGrayscale website ↗
Sponsor’s fee, read from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 ↗
Grayscale’s own site ↗

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Tracking difference
The fund’s total return minus the coin’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. The fee, the custody cost, the creation and redemption friction and whatever the market paid for the shares, all of it, in one number.
Spot
The fund holds the coin itself, through a custodian, rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it. Only spot funds are in this category; the others are measured where they belong.
Sponsor
Who runs the fund. Most spot crypto ETFs are 1933 Act trusts rather than registered investment companies, so they have a sponsor rather than an adviser, and file a 10-K rather than an N-PORT.
Thinly quoted
A fund whose price sat unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Its quoted return is what somebody paid on the days anyone traded, which is not the same thing as what the fund did, so ETFIQ shows it and does not rank it against funds that trade.
Staking
Only proof of stake coins can be staked, so it exists for ether and Solana funds and cannot exist for a bitcoin one. Where a fund stakes, the yield and the sponsor’s share of it are terms in its own filings.
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GXLM: GXLM over 1 year: fund −25.23%, Stellar −45.54%, 37.29% ahead of Stellar, compounded. Figures to Oct 20, 2026.
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