Former Binance CEO – Changpeng Zhao (CZ) – once again made waves in the crypto market when he suddenly Chia that he had just bought Aster Token , a decentralized Derivative exchange (Perp DEX) that has been attracting a lot of attention recently.
With just a few short lines, the market immediately “stirred up”. The tweet caused the price of Aster to have a short increase, proving that CZ’s influence on crypto market sentiment is still extremely strong.
Aster is a decentralized exchange (DEX) specializing in trading perpetual Derivative contracts (Perpetual Futures), built to bring a decentralized, high-speed, low-fee trading experience to crypto users . Aster's core technology is designed to process transactions almost as fast as a CEX , thanks to an off-chain orderbook mechanism combined with on-chain settlement.
Aster is currently receiving great support from CZ, despite the project having encountered some troubles recently. On the evening of October 5, 2025, the crypto community was suddenly stirred up when 0xngmi, founder of the famous blockchain statistics platform defillama , posted an official announcement stating that the website would stop providing Derivative volume data for the decentralized exchange (DEX) Aster. The reason is said to be that defillama suspected that Aster's huge Volume showed signs of "wash trading", which is the act of buying and selling yourself to create fake liquidation , inflating data to attract new users.
