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Aster breaks records at an astonishing pace. Recently, the young DEX managed to overtake crypto giant Tether in terms of profitability. In just two weeks, the associated cryptocurrency recorded gains of more than 1,700 percent.
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How Aster Becomes the most Profitable Crypto Protocol
Aster shook up the crypto market over the past few days. It is a young cryptocurrency that serves the Aster DEX – a decentralized marketplace of the same name.
Aster DEX allows the trading of Perpetual Futures. Users can thus speculate on the price movement of a cryptocurrency. With Perpetual Futures, unlike regular futures, there is no expiry date. Speculators can thus maintain their position longer – in the event of unexpected price movements, additional payments are usually required to prevent liquidation.
Not only the success Aster records draws attention to the great popularity of Perpetual Futures in the crypto market. Previously, a similar project named Hyperliquid already achieved enormous success. Both DEXs rely on the same system.
While Hyperliquid was already released in November 2024, Aster only followed on September 17, 2025. Nevertheless, Aster recently managed to overtake its competitor in terms of profitability, as records from DefiLlama show.
Within one day, Aster generated a revenue of $29 million. This places the protocol at the top of the entire crypto industry. Hyperliquid collected fees totaling $3 million during the same period.
Aster also left stablecoin giants Tether and Circle far behind. Tether collected $22 million, Circle $8 million. Aster achieves these enormous revenues solely through trading fees, which are low at 0.03 to 0.08%.
Aster Rises by 1,700 Percent within Two Weeks
Aster’s enormous success is also evident in the cryptocurrency’s price movement. Since its market launch on September 17, the token has risen by more than 1,700%. Initially, it traded for $0.10. Today, it is already trading at $1.79 – a movement that occurred in just two weeks.
With a market cap of around $3 billion, Aster ranks 38th among all cryptocurrencies, according to CoinMarketCap. Its direct competitor Hyperliquid was able to better establish its hype token. As of press time, it ranks eleventh with a market capitalization of $15 billion.
Both tokens function as both governance tokens and utility tokens. Users receive discounted fees on the respective platform if they hold the corresponding token. Additionally, they can vote on upcoming developments.
As a project of the BNB Chain, Aster receives public support from Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. On X, he repeatedly drew his followers’ attention to the young project. He discussed it in X Spaces and published several text messages.
“Few understand. Aster competes with Binance but strengthens BNB,” CZ wrote on Sunday, reaching 2.5 million readers.
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1972125175085994106
He also announced his involvement as an advisor to the project. However, he is not among Aster’s operators.
Compared to Hyperliquid, Aster offers significantly higher leverage – up to 1001x. Additionally, the project supports several successful blockchains such as BNB, Solana, and Ethereum. Hyperliquid relies on its own blockchain.
