Aster is officially one year old today, and we still need to keep shipping and building.
There are many ways to measure the length of a year. For me, the most meaningful one is how far we’ve expanded the boundaries of what Aster can do.
A year ago, Aster was primarily a perp DEX. Since then, we’ve built a chain, added entirely new asset classes, opened up the listing process, and kept pushing for a better onchain trading experience.
On markets:
•Global equity, commodity and pre-IPO perpetuals
•USD1 RWA perpetuals, with Aster being the first DEX to list them
•Prediction markets
On infrastructure:
•Aster Chain mainnet
•Staking and onchain governance
•Aster Code for ecosystem builders
•AOS-1, where spot listings are decided by validator vote instead of private negotiation
•AOS-2, extending the same model to perpetuals
For traders:
•Zero maker fees on crypto pairs and negative maker fees on RWA pairs
•Some of the lowest RWA trading fees in the market
•Hidden Orders, Chase Order, TWAP, Scale Orders and sub-accounts
•Aster Vault
•Binance Connect and Binance Wallet integrations
And on $ASTER itself:
•99% of daily platform fees go toward buying back $ASTER, with every burn executed on schedule and publicly verifiable onchain
•We extended the unlock cliff for 400,000,000 team-allocated $ASTER by another twelve months
A broader scope means more users from all over the world and a greater responsibility. We’re nowhere near done.
For year two, I want us to spend even more time on the small things that make Aster a better product.
So today we’re launching the Aster UX Enhancement Program, Season 1, with 10,000 aFEE set aside for user feedback.
No need for a formal report or a long write-up. Whenever you're using ASTER in your daily work and something feels the least bit frustrating or off, just tell us here:
https://t.co/n5CNQ1OvAT
1000 slots are open on the feedback page. If we find your feedback useful and act on it, you’ll receive 10 aFEE in your account, enough to cover your next 10 USDT in trading fees.
Help us make year two better.
Seeing some FUD around the latest buyback numbers. You can check the latest number on ASTER CHAIN, check out the Aster chain blockchain explorer, not on BSC:
https://t.co/IbV9UW5Gnn
[Tokenomics Update] $ASTER Buyback and Burn Steps Up to 198%
Aster is upgrading its buyback so the platform's own activity both rewards stakers and sets $ASTER on a deflationary path.
Starting from 12:00 PM UTC today, 99% of Aster's daily platform fees buy back $ASTER. An equal amount of $ASTER is burned from reserve, matching the buyback one for one.
The bought-back $ASTER goes to stakers. Each epoch it is added to Loyalty Rewards (300K $ASTER base, plus the buyback amount), distributed to veASTER by lock weight.
The burn takes team allocation first. $ASTER launched with a total supply of 8,000,000,000. The burn continues until total supply reaches 3,000,000,000.
Buybacks run automatically via TWAP across each day and settle on-chain. The buyback and the burn are both public and verifiable:
- Buyback wallet: 0xa0edBaBcb48034e368de286b49F9603C7AfA1b60
Every permissionless listing on Aster Spot pays a 50,000 USDT fee, used to buy back $ASTER as extra staking rewards.
- Listing fee wallet: 0x39C473f4420e4ae9Ab3fe9e7ceDFc08F9684bB1a
Docs: https://t.co/NU0NXQPPch
Community, $Aster Stakers and Hodlers, we have heard your feedback and I'm proud to announce one of the biggest tokenomics upgrade yet:
- Automatic, fully transparent daily buybacks with 99% of platform fees verifiable on Aster Chain
- 100% of the buybacks are used to fuel boosted rewards for stakers
- We are burning the same amount of tokens (99% of the fee income) with the goal of reducing supply to 3B
- 100% of the fund received for spot permissionless listing goes to buyback and adds to rewards for stakers
The team will continue to improve our product with the goal of generate more value for our users, capture and distribute that value to $Aster holder. Stay tuned for more product upgrade.
Aster coded.
2026 is the year where "perpetuatlization" of tradable assets happens. It is simply a better way to trade everything, and faster and more flexible than tokenization.
Our RWA roadmap is simple: covers every market that traders care about, make it as cheap, as liquid and as efficient as possible.
We have lower our fee on RWAs across the board and we will continue to list new active markets.
For those with limited access to tech and AI stocks from the east, now you can do it with @Aster_DEX
More to come. Keep building. Aster coded.
This is what winning looks like.
All TradFi perps on @Aster_DEX settling in USD1 — not USDT, not a mix. One standard.
Building real markets, not noise. @worldlibertyfi 🦅☝️