What breakthrough strategies does Aster have for the dual逆势发展的 of coin price and reputation? Aster 2026 core strategy

Written by: Deep Tide TechFlow

Introduction

The market is bleak and gloomy, but there are still a few projects that are doing well, and Aster is one of them.

According to CoinGecko's data from November 19, $ASTER has increased by over 7.7% in the past 24 hours, 18.4% over the past 7 days, and 32.1% over the past 14 days.

As one of the most successful TGE projects this year, the market has become more focused on Aster's subsequent direction after witnessing its impressive performance with a rise of over 2800% during the Aster TGE week.

After all, having seen many TGE as the peak performance, it is only after the TGE that there can be sustained users, transactions, and income, which can truly be considered as having withstood the test of the market and the community.

At the same time, 2025, as the year of explosive growth for Perp DEX, will see Aster's breakout battle becoming even more interesting under the siege of various competitors in the same field such as Hyperliquid, Lighter, and EdgeX.

So, what is Aster's core competitive strategy?

From the launch of Rocket Launch providing users with an early entry point for quality assets, to the introduction of a privacy-focused Layer 1, and then empowering the $ASTER token through a series of designs such as staking/buybacks/burning/fee discounts… On November 10, 2025, Aster founder Leonard provided clear answers through a community-facing AMA event:

The market does not need another redundant and boring Perp DEX, but rather true trading freedom, which incorporates a series of needs such as security, trust, privacy, efficiency, cost, liquidity, and the discovery and capture of profit opportunities.

Aster is currently rebuilding the on-chain trading ecosystem, achieving true stability and long-term success on the path of on-chain finance.

What did the founders say in an AMA aimed at clarifying the future of Aster?

In summary of this one-hour AMA, you can easily grasp the following key points:

Aster is building a privacy-focused Layer 1: the team is working hard and hopes to complete internal testing and be technically ready for the testnet by early 2026.

Continuous Empowerment $ASTER Token: Previously, Aster has launched specific use cases around $ASTER such as fee discounts, airdrops, and VIP levels, and has continuously empowered the token's value through buyback and burn programs. In the future, as Layer 1 launches, the $ASTER token will unlock more utility in more scenarios such as validation, staking, and governance.

Rich trading targets: In addition to continuously expanding support for cryptocurrencies, it extends support to assets such as gold, stocks, and commodities.

Optimize liquidity incentives: Continuously attract and reward market makers, while incentivizing professional market makers for major currency pairs, also providing support for those market makers focused on providing liquidity in long-tail markets.

Degen Direction Exploration: Launching and continuously operating Rocket Launch, empowering users with early value capture capabilities.

Global cooperation network construction: perfecting the trading ecosystem map, bringing a richer experience.

Each line seems independent, but every line will form a joint force to create a trading environment that is truly attractive to all participants in the trading ecosystem, including traders, institutions, holders, and market makers.

After the TGE, Aster will reach a new level.

The tremendous success of TGE is like a tsunami of traffic, bringing a surge of users, trading volume, and community discussions to Aster.

As TGE comes to a successful conclusion, Aster, as a trading platform, has its own secrets on how to effectively retain users in the future.

In the planning of Leonard, the founder of Aster, this is a dual-track path that horizontally expands revenue and vertically deepens experience.

To retain users, the first step is to ensure that trading is comfortable for them, which involves a series of experience optimizations. Aster is specifically built for traders, aiming to create a trading ecosystem that combines the smoothness of CEX-level with the trustworthiness of a DEX environment. For traders, especially professional traders or institutional users, Aster has a series of advantages:

On one hand, under a decentralized architecture, Aster can list coins faster and flexibly expand trading targets: Aster maintains an open permissionless environment, supporting not only cryptocurrencies but also trading in U.S. stocks, gold, and other assets. In the future, it will expand to include more U.S. stocks and commodities, providing a rich variety of trading options on-chain for different traders.

On the other hand, Aster continues to promote refined liquidity management. The market maker program aims to incentivize LPs to fill the gaps in markets with thinner depth. While the depth of mainstream currencies has been greatly optimized, Aster will focus on long-tail assets in the future, planning to offer higher commission rewards to market makers of small tokens to enhance depth and transaction quality, allowing users to enjoy a smooth and low-slippage experience regardless of which asset they trade.

The privacy features are a significant differentiating advantage of Aster compared to other Perp DEX platforms. Many users, especially institutional traders, do not want all their strategies and positions to be publicly available on-chain. Aster's Hidden Orders and hidden order system can effectively meet this need, helping to attract more institutional funds to enter the market.

In addition, features such as 1001x extreme leverage and rate advantages will further bring about cost differences at scale for large institutions or high-leverage traders.

In addition to the trading experience, traders care more about “earning something,” which aligns with Aster's core concept: Trade & Earn.

Stable income is a key module of Aster, which aims to provide users, especially institutional users, with more efficient capital utilization through this module. By leveraging a combination of lending, perpetual mechanisms, and yield pools, it seeks to increase capital returns while maintaining controllable risks. In the future, Aster will also expand its DeFi partnerships to bring more yield scenarios.

USDF is the core of the Aster stable income module. USDF plays a triple role in the Aster trading system as trading collateral, liquidity asset, and passive income source. As a Delta-neutral yield-bearing stablecoin, USDF primarily generates returns by allocating underlying assets into low-risk DeFi protocols.

After the TGE, Aster also launched various incentive measures aimed at users. On one hand, it continues to carry out Stage 3 and Stage 4 activities, and on the other hand, it introduced the Double Harvest trading competition with a total prize pool of 10 million USD, attracting users through rewards for real trades and promoting the growth of the platform's ecosystem.

After the TGE, another significant move by Aster that cannot be overlooked is the launch of Rocket Launch. As a core carrier to promote Aster's value of “providing liquidity support,” Rocket Launch offers a launch platform for high-potential projects that combines trading depth with long-term value. Project teams can set up prize pools on the platform to reach a broader user base, while users also gain an entry point to embrace Degen and capture early opportunities. Since its launch, it has gone live with 5 projects, with a cumulative reward scale exceeding 3 million dollars.

Since the TGE, Aster's growth logic has been validated through specific data performance.

According to official data from Aster, the number of Aster users has exceeded 4.6 million; while according to Dune data, Aster's 24-hour holding amount is 2.329 billion USD, and the weekly trading volume exceeds 25.6 billion USD, with a market share of over 20% in the Perp DEX.

Although multiple data points have declined due to a bear market, they still strongly prove that Aster has firmly established itself in the Perp DEX track, becoming a top-level presence in the field.

While adhering to the dual-track approach of horizontally expanding revenue and vertically deepening experience, the Aster trading ecosystem has gained more promising opportunities with the continuous advancement of the Layer 1 strategy.

Aster Layer 1: Narrative Upgrade from Perp DEX to Trading Infrastructure

In the AMA session with Aster founder Leonard, the most discussed topic was Aster Layer 1.

Building Layer 1 is about infrastructure, and Aster Layer 1 aims to create a chain specifically restructured for trading.

Why create a new chain? The core of the issue comes back to Aster's original intention: to achieve a truly decentralized trading environment on the chain, while still providing a CEX experience.

On one hand, Aster believes that the trading ecosystem must be built on a decentralized foundation, as the verifiability and self-custody capabilities brought by blockchain can lay a strong trust cornerstone for the entire ecosystem.

On the other hand, for the trading ecosystem, the core of trading lies in order book matching. Aster needs a set of infrastructure that can provide performance close to centralized matching. However, most existing public chain solutions for transaction matching operate on contracts or off-chain systems, treating the blockchain merely as a place to record data, which results in many limitations.

At the same time, from the perspective of matching performance, Aster founder Leonard believes that at this stage, no blockchain can outperform centralized matching engines and databases. Therefore, while pursuing an experience comparable to CEX, Aster Layer 1 must further find the key to differentiated competition, and privacy is Aster's answer.

In many cases, many traders do not want their trading strategies to be completely transparent and exposed on-chain, as this could bring them a lot of extra trouble, making strategy privacy even more important. The well-known trader James Wynn's experience with targeted attacks on Hyperliquid illustrates this point well, and the rising popularity of Zcash further validates the market demand. Providing on-chain privacy options is not only a gap in the current market but also a key to allowing more users and more strategies to operate on-chain.

Based on the above, Aster Layer 1 has already begun to take shape:

Designed for trading: Aster Layer 1 aims to directly embed order book logic into the blockchain core, writing the entire process of trade matching into the consensus and execution layer, including order placement, matching, order cancellation, and so on, so that the resource scheduling and performance optimization of the entire Aster Layer 1 chain primarily revolve around trading, providing a trading experience comparable to that of CEX.

Deep reinforcement of privacy and security mechanisms: Privacy has always been a core differentiating advantage of Aster, and the design of Aster Layer 1 continues this privacy feature, protecting transaction strategies and user privacy.

Verifiable and Self-Custody: Break the black box dilemma of centralized trading, allowing trading participants to establish trading rules and verify transactions.

The infrastructure improvement brought by Aster Layer 1 will strongly connect various modules of the ecosystem, leading to a series of chain reactions for the Aster trading ecosystem:

On one hand, it is the underlying optimization of the trading experience;

On the other hand, achieving true “verifiable + self-custodial + privacy” will open the door for institutional-level adoption and also promote the evolution of Aster into a “transaction infrastructure.” Whether it is DeFi projects or traditional financial institutions such as brokers, exchanges, banks, and payment companies, they can directly build on Aster and replicate the successful model of Aster that “combines the smoothness of CEX-level with the trustworthiness of DEX.”

Aster provides matching engine + liquidity + risk control, while partnering projects offer branding + products + localized operations.

In the future, Aster will use Asia as a starting point to further expand into the English market, continuously expanding its global partner network to achieve rapid growth of the Aster trading ecosystem.

At the same time, with the launch of Layer 1 and the introduction of the staking feature, the value cycle of the Aster trading ecosystem will further be realized through the $ASTER token.

All value is condensed $ASTER

As the core value carrier of the ecosystem, Aster continuously launches specific application scenarios for $ASTER , continually empowering token holders. It has currently been launched:

Governance: Token holders can vote on the development of the protocol, including which liquidity sources to integrate, fee structures, fund management, etc.;

Fee Discount: A discount is available when paying transaction fees with $ASTER .

VIP Level: A multi-level VIP ladder system is established based on trading volume and the holding amount of $ASTER . Higher-level users can unlock deeper fee discounts, priority access to liquidity, higher leverage limits, and other benefits.

Token Airdrop: Holding or staking $ASTER can enhance the multiplier in Aster Spectra, thereby prioritizing future airdrops;

Participation in activities: For example, holding a certain amount of $ASTER is required to participate in Rocket Launch, etc.

In addition, Aster is also in discussions with some lending protocols to further provide more use cases for the $ASTER token.

At the same time, Aster has also launched a buyback and burn mechanism to further maintain the value of the tokens:

Previously, Aster announced that 70% - 80% of the transaction fees generated during the S3 period will be used to buy back $ASTER. It also stated that among all the buyback funds from S2 and S3, 50% will be burned and 50% will be returned to the locked airdrop addresses to reduce the token supply and enhance its long-term value.

Currently, all operations are executed in an orderly manner and are publicly transparent and traceable, enhancing community trust.

The series of measures greatly weaken the speculative attributes of $ASTER , further transforming holders into long-term ecological builders. At the same time, under the virtuous cycle of “more active trading → higher platform revenue → higher buybacks and burns → further empowering token holders,” a more sustainable positive flywheel is formed.

After the official launch of Layer 1, the value binding of $ASTER with the entire Aster trading ecosystem will become even closer.

On one hand, the validator nodes and staking function are expected to launch alongside the Aster Layer 1 mainnet. Due to the near-zero Gas design of Layer 1, the incentives for validator nodes will be driven by two sources of funds: one part is the ecological incentive distribution from the protocol layer, and the other part is the sharing of transaction fees. Thanks to Aster's continuous positive cash flow, it can effectively support the formation of a stable and sustainable incentive mechanism, while ecological trading behaviors are further endowed with the special significance of maintaining network security.

On the other hand, the repurchase logic can be directly written into the smart contract for automatic execution, allowing the quantity, price, and address of each repurchase to be publicly verifiable, avoiding front-running and information asymmetry, while retaining sufficient algorithmic flexibility to allow different repurchase parameters to be used at different stages.

In addition, with the launch of Aster Layer 1, it will further unlock the governance scenarios for the $ASTER token, allowing stakers to participate in on-chain governance voting and ecological parameter decisions, enabling the token to play a more core governance role in the ecosystem.

Conclusion

From developing Perp DEX products to reconstructing trading infrastructure, Aster is showcasing an evolutionary narrative of an on-chain trading underlying operating system. This leap from the application layer to the infrastructure layer signifies that Aster is committed to building an ecological soil where countless trading scenarios can thrive.

When global DeFi, brokerages, exchanges, and financial institutions can quickly build their own derivative trading platforms based on Aster's infrastructure, the $ASTER token, as the value carrier of this vast ecosystem, will see its potential grow along with the expansion of the ecological landscape.

Additionally, it must be mentioned that behind this narrative evolution, Aster bears a distinct “Binance system” label: YZi Labs is the supporter behind Aster. Even more notably, on the evening of November 2, CZ announced that he purchased 2.09 million Aster tokens with his own money, marking a strong endorsement from CZ for Aster and indicating that the true influencers in this industry are voting for Aster's future through concrete actions.

From the trading performance of rollups to achieving transaction privacy, Aster chose a differentiated competitive path for Perp DEX from the very beginning, quickly capturing market share in the Perp DEX space with its actual performance. As a new round of Perp DEX competition unfolds, will Aster once again showcase a “TGE phase-style explosive growth”?

With Aster Layer 1 set to meet everyone by the end of 2025 at the earliest, let us always keep our expectations high for the future of on-chain transactions.