One of the most prominent developments made by Stellar Lumens is SDEX, the Stellar Decentralized Exchange, which seems to be one of the factors to be pushing Lumens up the charts. The team is offering 2 million dollar grants for partners that are ready to support SDEX, while they are planning to make a highly competitive exchange with decentralized nature and lowest fees possible while implementing unique features to improve end-user experience.
While also working on improving the support of the Stellar network as an addition to this highly functional platform, Stellar Lumens is also working on making nodes more independent regarding the way the platform is operating, that way bringing a fully decentralized platform that makes up for a self-sustainable ecosystem.