Korean equity perps, live on Aster: $SAMSUNG, $SKHYNIX. Up to 5x.
The two names at the center of the AI memory trade.
One venue, every market. The Frontier of on-chain trading.
The week belonged to memory.
$MU, $SKHYNIX, and $DRAM led the RWA board on the AI memory squeeze.
$HOOD was the only top mover outside the theme.
Trade them all as perps on Aster.
BTCU & ETHU Perpetuals launching on Aster: Trade and share a $50,000 $U reward pool 👇
The first listings via Aster's permissionless Listing Vote, proposed by @UTechStables and voted in by validators.
And the first U-denominated perp pairs globally.
📋 The Basics
- Perp listing: BTCU & ETHU | May 27, 10:00 UTC
- Campaign period: May 27, 10:00 UTC – June 2, 14:00 UTC
- Rewards pool: $50,000 in $U ($25,000 per pair)
- Symbol boost: 1.5x on BTCU & ETHU during the campaign
🎯 How Rewards Work
- The $50,000 pool is split equally: $25,000 $U for BTCU traders, $25,000 $U for ETHU traders.
- For each pair, rewards are based on your share of total trading fees on that pair.
- Your reward (per pair) = Pair Pool × (Your Trading Fees ÷ All Eligible Users' Trading Fees on that pair)
- 3% per-user cap on each pair's pool.
- You need >$5 in trading fees on a pair to qualify. Rewards under 1 $U won't be distributed.
⚠️ Wash trading, self-trading, sybil farming, or manipulative behaviors will be disqualified.
🔍 What is United Stables ($U)?
@UTechStables is a next-generation stablecoin built as a unified liquidity layer across trading, payments, DeFi, institutions, and AI. $U is USD-pegged and issued by United Stables Limited (BVI).
📢 Speaker Announcement
We’re thrilled to welcome @leonard_aster, CEO at @Aster_DEX, to #IBW2026.
Istanbul Blockchain Week brings together the global Web3 ecosystem of founders, builders, investors, and innovators.
📅 June 2–3, 2026
🔗 https://t.co/oL8YgI3xlC
Aster Launches First Native Chase Orders on Aster Chain
@Aster_Dex introduces the first decentralized exchange with native chase orders built directly into its on-chain matching engine.
This new feature allows limit orders to automatically update their prices every second to track the best bid or ask, ensuring users remain at the front of the book without manual intervention.
All fills are processed as post-only maker orders, enabling a 0% maker fee environment on Aster while providing customizable safety boundaries and "gap" modes for price protection.
aster-2:native just launched the first native Chase Orders built directly into an on-chain matching engine.
Think about what that means.
Your limit order can now automatically reprice every second to stay at the front of the bid or ask without constantly managing the trade yourself.
No bots.
No manual refreshing.
No CEX required.
Every fill remains post-only maker flow, preserving Aster’s 0% maker fee environment while giving traders customizable safety rails and price protection through gap settings.
This is the type of product iteration that matters.
The future belongs to exchanges that feel as fast and intuitive as TradFi while remaining fully on-chain.
@Aster_DEX continues to close that gap.
$ASTER Prediction Markets Are Coming
Kalshi and Polymarket are continuing to face regulatory and market access challenges in the states, @Aster_DEX couldn’t have picked a better time to enter the prediction market arena.
This has been one of the most requested features from the community, and Leonard hinted during the last AMA that the team was already building it.
Looks like we’re getting closer.
The feature is now appearing on testnet, giving us an early look at how prediction markets could work inside the Aster ecosystem:
Choose an event
Analyze price action
Review market depth
Check available balance
Pick your direction
Place your position
Manage and monitor your orders
The biggest takeaway?
You don’t need to be an active trader to participate.
Prediction markets simplify market participation into a straightforward yes/no framework while still benefiting from Aster’s speed, liquidity, and user experience.
The team continues to execute at an impressive pace:
• Perps
• RWAs
• Equities
• Commodities
• Privacy infrastructure
• Prediction markets
They keep shipping, listening to the community, and expanding the product suite. The future of markets is on-chain, and prediction markets feel like a natural next step for Aster.
Chase Orders are live on Aster.
A chase order is a limit order that automatically updates its price to follow the best bid or ask, so you stay in line with the market without manually re-pricing. Always post-only, so every fill is a maker fill at Aster's 0 maker fee.
Aster is the first DEX with native chase orders, built into the matching engine and verifiable on Aster Chain.
Aster Ambassador Events Coming up!
May 22:
- St Petersburg
- Chengdu
- Shenzhen
- Shanghai
June 2:
- Istanbul
June 5
- France
Nigeria & Ghana dates coming soon
$Aster is coded and working !!!
$ASTER listings are going permissionless.
@Aster_DEX just introduced “Listing Vote,” allowing any Aster Chain validator with more than 20M $ASTER staked to propose new perpetual listing pairs directly to the platform.
At current prices, that’s over $13M worth of $ASTER. This isn’t open to everyone, but it is open to serious ecosystem participants like @UTechStables, which already proposed $BTC and $ETH pairs with its $U stablecoin.
Meanwhile, the market is busy chasing the latest DEX meta and rotating narratives every 48 hours while a sleeping giant quietly builds the infrastructure, utilities and rails needed to power a fully decentralized financial ecosystem.
People forget: Hyperliquid had a 3.5 year head start.
And instead of panicking, the @Aster_DEX team looked at that and basically said, “Bring it on.”
That mindset is exactly why I’m paying attention.
This kind of competition is healthy for the industry. The user experience, liquidity and infrastructure across on-chain trading keeps leveling up.
And when Binance and Aster eventually begin sharing deeper order flow and liquidity rails at scale?
$ASTER won’t slowly grow into a major decentralized exchange.
It becomes one overnight.
Any REAL trader uses Aster
Here’s why:
It’s the fee structure ($0)
The listings like LAB that don’t get listed elsewhere
The oracle pricing
The liquidity and lack of auto deleveraging
People point at the price of $ASTER as if the token is the entire exchange. I said from day one early token price is mostly market driven. The market is the market.
But the things an exchange can actually control?
Execution
Listings
Trader experience
Risk engine
Liquidity
And no one is outdoing Aster there.