Aster is a privacy-focused decentralized perpetuals exchange offering markets on crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. The project is based in Singapore and is backed by YZi Labs, Kronos Research, Lingfeng Capital, TokenPocket, 3Commas, and Lux Capital. Aster was previously backed by Binance Labs and was formerly affiliated with APX Finance, which has since been rebranded to ASTER and migrated from an old contract to a new contract. Aster's TwitterScore is 249 out of 1000.

The $ASTER token is BEP-20 standard on BNB Chain with a maximum supply of 8,000,000,000, with tokenomics allocating 53.5% to airdrops and 30% to ecosystem and community. Eligible $APX holders and stakers can exchange their tokens for $ASTER during a designated swap period. Aster also issues USDF, a fully collateralized, yield-bearing stablecoin with a 1:1 conversion rate with USDT. Aster Chain is described as a high-performance, privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain for derivatives trading that powers Aster DEX, using PoSA consensus, targeting 50 ms block time, up to 100,000 TPS, and 0 gas fees, with support for networks including BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Solana.

DefiLlama lists Aster TVL across BSC, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, Manta, Base, opBNB, ZKsync Era, and Scroll. A seed round on Jun 8, 2022 included investors Binance Labs, Kronos Research, Lingfeng Capital, SafePal, TokenPocket, 3Commas, and Lux Capital, followed by a strategic round on Nov 28, 2024 with Binance Labs. CoinMarketCap tags ASTER as Perpetuals, Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Token, and DeFi. Aster has 308,288 followers and 3,007 posts, ranking at rank #1,737 out of 364,257 accounts, and is mentioned by 729 accounts.

Smart Followers

The accounts that follow Aster include 711 founders, 98 angel investors, 937 influencers and 25 VCs, among them CZ BNB, Laura Shin, Stani, Andrew Kang, Joseph Lubin and smolting wassie, verse.