Aster is a privacy-focused decentralized perpetuals exchange that supports trading across crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. Aster's Twitter Score is 254 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,520 (top 0.5%) among 487,700 tracked accounts.
Aster operates on Aster Chain, a high-performance, privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for derivatives trading. The platform supports bridging and deposits across BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Solana, with liquidity tracked by DefiLlama across additional networks including Manta, Base, opBNB, ZKsync Era, and Scroll. Aster was formerly affiliated with APX Finance, with CoinGecko noting that the APX token was rebranded to $ASTER and migrated to a new contract on the BEP-20 standard on BNB Chain, with a maximum supply of 8,000,000,000 tokens.
Aster also issues USDF, a fully collateralized, yield-bearing stablecoin with a 1:1 conversion rate with USDT. The $ASTER tokenomics allocate 53.5% to airdrops, 30% to ecosystem and community, 7% to treasury, 5% to team, and 4.5% to liquidity and listings. Aster is backed by YZi Labs, TokenPocket, and Lux Capital, among others including Kronos Research, Lingfeng Capital, SafePal, and 3Commas. A seed round in June 2022 included Binance Labs as an investor, and Binance Labs also participated in a strategic round in November 2024, though the affiliation is now former. Aster has 307,139 followers as of August 2026 and has published 3,086 posts, and has been mentioned by 878 accounts a total of 2,509 times.
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The accounts that follow Aster include 825 founders, 132 angel investors, 935 influencers and 13 VCs, among them CZ BNB, Laura Shin, Stani, Andrew Kang, smolting wassie, verse and Joseph Lubin.