although stellar originally was a fork of the ripple protocol, Stellar actually re-architected their code base. The speed with which the stellar project has grown has been incredible, more and more ICO run their ICOs on Stellar platform. The more I learn, the more I like the project and start to view it as a long term hold. the sky is the limit for this one, maybe the only negative i can see is The ability to actually trade things is pretty complicated right now when compared to using a centralized exchange.