CoinMarketCap has acknowledged that it has applied help of Aster DEX, the platform after the profitable Token Technology Occasion. The occasion introduced the token of $ASTER to the market, and now it’s traded in opposition to USDT on Aster Spot. It is a vital transfer to a wider recognition of a brand new DeFi venture.
Particulars of the Launch
The token was launched formally on the seventeenth of September 2025 at 12:00 UTC. The next day, CoinMarketCap introduced the occasion, which the corporate confirmed it was a launch accomplice. That is the help that has already made Aster seen to the worldwide merchants and traders. Throughout hours after the launch, it was attainable to watch that $ASTER began to draw consideration. It skilled a pointy enhance in worth and elevated exercise within the commerce. When final quoted, the token had a valuation of about twenty cents, and traded closely every day, and with a market capital in extra of 300 hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. It additionally soared to place 200 within the CoinMarketCap record of cash inside a day.
The Aster DEX performed a large airdrop to advertise the early adoption. Greater than seven hundred million of the $ASTER tokens got to certified customers. The window of claims is free as much as October 17, 2025, and the withdrawals will begin at October 1. The intention behind the distribution is to distribute the token as a lot as attainable establishing a strong basis of holders early on.
What Aster DEX Presents
Aster DEX is a perpetual trading-oriented and decentralized buying and selling platform. The platform provides a most of 100 instances leverage with over fifty crypto markets. Additionally it is bringing out multi-asset collateral, which permits customers to commerce utilizing liquid staking tokens and stablecoins yielding curiosity. The platform is extra environment friendly as a result of liquidity is introduced collectively by chains. The venture is constructed on Aster Chain that may be a Layer 1 community particular to hurry and privateness. ASTER token can be concerned in governance, reward system, and the event of an ecosystem over the long term. There may be additionally a cell software, the place merchants can unite their wallets and take care of positions in an app.

