Excerpt: The Kin Ecosystem needed a more predictable blockchain in terms of transaction confirmation time and fees, and Stellar was our winning candidate.
Now, we’re using Kik’s nine years of experience and knowledge in network engineering and scaling to test the Stellar public blockchain network for Kin. Our aim: To see if Stellar indeed stands up to its performance claims...
https://medium.com/kin-contributors/stellar-load-testing-results-for-the-kin-ecosystem-64c4d8676e69