Aster wallet

What is Aster (ASTER)?

ASTER is the token of Aster, a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures. Traders open leveraged long and short positions on crypto pairs and on a set of U.S. stocks, keep custody of their collateral the whole time, and settle everything on-chain. The exchange has a one-click mode for simple trades and a full order-book mode with grid strategies and hidden orders. The project itself came out of the merger of Astherus and APX Finance, and the former APX token was migrated into ASTER, so if you still see APX in an old wallet, that is the predecessor, not a separate asset.

What the token does

ASTER is used for governance votes over the protocol, for fee discounts on the exchange, and for staking that ties the holder to the protocol's fee model. None of that happens by itself: a plain ASTER balance in a wallet does not change on its own, and any staking or voting is a transaction you sign deliberately.

How it lives in a wallet

ASTER is a BEP-20 token on BNB Smart Chain. Like any token there, it sits at your normal EVM address, and every transfer or approval is paid in BNB, not in ASTER. A wallet with ASTER but no BNB cannot move it until some BNB arrives. Watch the ticker as well: ASTER is easy to confuse with ASTR, the token of the unrelated Astar Network, and the two share nothing but four letters.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): BNB Smart Chain.

Because ASTER moves only with BNB behind it, Tangem keeps both in the same wallet at the same address, and each transfer is confirmed by tapping the card to the phone rather than plugging anything in. For a token whose owner mostly deposits it to the exchange or parks it between trades, that combination makes holding ASTER in Tangem practical.