Aster Grid Now Lets Traders Open Positions Instantly Aster DEX (@Aster_DEX) has rolled out instant position opening as part of the Aster Grid trading engine. This works alongside order accumulation for passive trading on both desktop and mobile platforms. Traders can now instantly open long or short positions at the current market price. Traders can also set up limit grids with ranges to accumulate positions. The feature gives traders more flexibility in deploying funds.

Aster DEX starts shutting down ApolloX for good @Aster_DEX began winding down the legacy APX contract of ApolloX, its original exchange, today at 10:00 UTC and expects to finish within 48 hours. Protocol-owned funds are moving over to Aster through its bridge. Users with balances or open positions still on ApolloX are urged to close them and withdraw before the process ends. ApolloX launched in 2021 and merged with Astherus in late 2024 to form Aster. APX holders swapped to $ASTER at a 1:1 ratio last year.

ASTERA LABS $ALAB Q3’26 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS 🔹 Revenue: $584.9M (Est. $551M) 🟢; +154% YoY 🔹 Adj. EPS: $1.32 (Est. $1.19) 🟢; +169% YoY 🔹 Non-GAAP Oper Income: $261.6M (Est. $233M) 🟢 Q4 Guide: 🔹 Revenue: $730M-$750M (Est. $656M) 🟢 🔹 Adj. EPS: $1.62-$1.66 (Est. $1.42) 🟢 🔹 Non-GAAP Gross Margin: 72% (Est. 71.1%) 🟢 Other Q3 Metrics: 🔹 Non-GAAP Gross Margin: 72.4% (Est. 71.9%) 🟢; -400 bps YoY 🔹 Non-GAAP Operating Income: $261.6M 🔹 Non-GAAP Operating Margin: 44.7%; +300 bps YoY Announcements: 🔹 Scorpio: 320-lane fabric switch became largest product family 🔹 Aries 7: connectivity reach extends to 50+ meters 🔹 Orion: six reference designs; scales from 8 to 160 accelerators 🔹 Leo X-Series: up to 62% faster time-to-first-token; 22% more tokens/sec Comments: 🔸 “Design activity accelerated with wins across a broad set of programs and applications at multiple customers.” 🔸 “The expansion of our intelligent connectivity platform and new design wins position us to strongly grow our dollar content per accelerator and further increase our total market opportunity.”

Aster DEX Wraps a Busy October With Buybacks, Burns, and New Markets @Aster_DEX had an eventful October focused on tokenomics, new markets, and rewards. - Sep 21–Oct 5: 3,1M $ASTER bought back and burned.⁠ - Oct 5–19: ~2.72M $ASTER. - Oct 19–Nov 2: 2,604,529.88 $ASTER. $USDC perpetuals of $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL were launched on October 23, along with new RWA pairs and token perps. Liquidity mining campaigns have continued: - Grid Liquidity Mining, which offered a $WLFI reward pool, and $USD1 RWA Boost. [Oct. 27] - USD1 Reward Boost ongoing with ~ $700K rewards. - Aster 14-day lucky draw [October 15] - bStocks Campaign with @BNBChain [Oct. 20-31]

Aster volume crosses $1.5 TRILLION. @Aster_DEX has now seen an incredible $1.53 trillion in cumulative perps volume, cementing it as a dominant force in the perps trading sector. Around $47 billion of that volume arrived in the past 30 days alone, and $ASTER has now generated a staggering $483 million in total fees.

Aster rolls out USDC perps markets on Arc @Aster_DEX, the exchange behind $ASTER, now runs Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana perpetual futures quoted in $USDC, quoted in $USDC and backed by USDC deposited on @arc. Arc says this makes the stablecoin a trading and margin asset on Aster for the first time. Aster has accepted USDC deposits and withdrawals on Arc since the chain launched on September 16. The new markets arrive a day after rival perps exchange Extended moved its settlement from Starknet to Arc, dropping USDT in the process.