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: 
 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.

Meet a smart trader 0x0121. 4 months ago, he bought $ASTEROID at $126K MC and is now up 140x. Recently, he bought $牛来 below $750K MC and is now up 39x. 4 months ago, he spent 1.25 $ETH ($3K) to buy 10.05B $ASTEROID using 5 wallets, then sold 6.85B $ASTEROID for 90.95 $ETH($220K). He still holds 3.2B $ASTEROID($206K), with a total profit of $423K(140x). Over the past 2 days, he spent $16,552 to buy 22.1M $牛来, now worth $663K, with an unrealized profit of $646K — a 39x return. Wallet: 0x0121525f755c9e7bbc525bba6672716ab46ced57

Behind the scenes of Aster’s live trading competition at IDBW Jakarta. Incredible turnout and energy from the community. Huge shoutout to the team behind the scenes for making it all happen. Looking forward to the grand final tomorrow, may the best trader win! 🏆

[ $ASTER Buyback and Burn Update ] From 2026-07-27 00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00 UTC, 99% of daily platform fees were used to buy back 2,851,653.28 $ASTER for stakers. A matching 2,851,653.28 $ASTER has been burned from the team allocation. - Cumulative burn under the upgraded tokenomics since 2026-06-17: 11,086,108.41 $ASTER - Cumulative burn across all programs: 188,867,109.98 $ASTER - Est. total staking APY as of 2026-08-10: 5.30% with a 26-week lock and 28.61% with the maximum 208-week lock. Variable.

The Aster Africa Traders Mixer was a day of good conversations, new connections, trading, and community. It was great bringing traders and the wider Web3 community together in one room. This is only the beginning for Aster Africa. See you at the next one. 👀 ASTER IS HOME 🫶🏻

Nigeria, you absolutely showed up! Seeing the Aster community grow across continents is what this journey is all about. This is only the beginning and we're bringing Aster to more cities, more countries, and more communities around the world. Where do you want to see us next?

New RWA perp listing: $CXMT The $CXMT Pre-IPO Perpetual has launched on Aster with up to 5x leverage. $CXMT references the USD market-implied price per share of ChangXin Memory Technologies, a leading Chinese DRAM manufacturer. Trade the debut. Earn 1.2x trading points through Aug 2, 23:59 UTC.

Aster Vault Beta is live. Access actively managed trading strategies without executing every trade yourself. Deposit into a vault, and share proportionally in its gains and losses. A limited set of vaults is available during beta. Explore:

[ $ASTER Buyback and Burn Update ] From 2026-06-29 00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00 UTC, 99% of daily platform fees were used to buy back 3,083,815.69 $ASTER for stakers. A matching 3,083,815.69 $ASTER has been burned from the team allocation. - Cumulative burn under the upgraded tokenomics since 2026-06-17: 6,020,941.22 $ASTER - Cumulative burn across all programs: 183,801,942.79 $ASTER - Est. total staking APY as of 2026-07-13: 5.35% with a 26-week lock and 28.85% with the maximum 208-week lock. Variable.

Join the #Binance# Wallet RateX Perpetuals Trading Competition now! 🔸 Competition period: July 7, 10:00 - July 17, 10:00 UTC 🔸 Trade RTXUSDT with $50K worth of rewards up for grabs! 🔸 Click [Join] on the Binance App event page to start tracking trade volume. 🔸 Both opening and closing volumes count, across long and short trades. 🔸 Minimum trading volume requirement: 1,000 USDT Check the event page for more details. Don't miss out 👇

$ANSEM Perps LIVE on @Aster_DEX, first one out the gate 🥷 @blknoiz06 @solana RTM szn hitting differently. If it’s in your thesis, go cook on Aster. DYOR. Trade your own view. Leverage responsibly #ANSEM# #RTM# #Solana#

Aster Open Standard (AOS) is our effort to categorize our protocol standards for permissionless issurance and management of different assets and product on Aster. Aster is committed to a decentralized future where self custody and permissionless deployment is built in on protocol level. AOS gives a coherent raod map for everyone to participate and build on Aster. AOS-1 covers the standard for spot permissionless listing, and to boostrabe liquidity for the markets deployed by the AOS-1 deployer, we are making everyone a market maker for AOS-1 markets by providing a maker fee rebate for all.

$ASTER staking rewards just got a major boost. Earn up to 27.67% APY with a 208-week lock, powered by Aster’s buyback of 99% of daily trading fees. Stake $ASTER. Choose a lock period from 26 to 208 weeks.