Aster is a privacy-focused decentralized perpetuals exchange that supports trading across crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. Aster's Twitter Score is 253 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,495 (top 0.5%) among 483,508 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 306,924 followers as of August 2026 and has published 3,138 posts, and has been mentioned by 912 accounts a total of 2,600 times.
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The accounts that follow Aster include 885 founders, 181 angel investors, 910 influencers and 12 VCs, among them CZ BNB, Laura Shin, Stani, Andrew Kang, Joseph Lubin and smolting wassie, verse.