STR ticker symbol on Poloniex

anotherscott

Hey all, why has Poloniex not updated the ticker symbol from STR to XLM? This seems important considering it's the main source of liquidity/volume for the Lumen. I'm wondering if the upgrade to the Stellar protocol resulted in a fork and now STR is from the old chain and XLM is on the upgraded chain (similar to ETH/ETC). Is it possible they would have to credit holders of STR with the same amount of XLM? I know Stellar isn't a PoW blockchain, but I'm not sure how the upgrade to the network was handled via exchanges. I've contacted Poloniex to update the symbol and have not received a response yet. I just figured this was important for new people as they learn about Stellar (protocol) and Lumen (native currency).

jed

Yeah I wish they would change the ticker symbol. I bet if people keep asking them they will do it

bkolobara

I asked them now multiple times and opened tickets with them about it. But no luck so far.

After contacting coinmarketcap they changed it in a few hours from Stellar to Stellar Lumens.

I think Poloniex is the only place not wanting to change.

cedced

Same here. Asked them several times and they said it was not their priority...

anotherscott

Just wanted to update everyone that I got a reply from Poloniex and they are supposedly working on the issue. Here is the response I received from them.

"We have plans to update STR ticker to XLM, however changing a coin ticker on the site is not as easy as it might seem. Rest assured we are working on getting that updated as soon as possible."