Aster

JPMorgan

Fluence

<h2 id="new-equity-linked-listings-go-live">New Equity-Linked Listings Go Live</h2>
<p>Aster DEX has expanded its real-world asset (RWA) perpetual contracts lineup with five new listings tied to major U.S. companies: JPMorgan, Walmart, Visa, Berkshire Hathaway Class B, and Fluence Energy. Traders can access up to 20x leverage on the new pairs, with boosted trading rewards available through June 2.</p>
<p>The contracts are derivative instruments that let traders speculate on the price of an underlying asset without the need for real-world custody. Pricing data is sourced from Pyth Network, which <cite>maintains multiple data publishers for every product and combines their data to produce a single aggregate price and confidence interval</cite>, designed to be robust against manipulation.</p>
<h2 id="part-of-a-broader-rwa-push-at-aster">Part of a Broader RWA Push at Aster</h2>
<p>The new listings build on a strategy Aster has been executing for some time. <cite>The exchange already offers perpetuals on U.S. equities alongside its core crypto derivatives and recently launched the genesis phase of Aster Chain, a privacy-focused Layer 1 using zero-knowledge proofs.</cite> The platform has also launched RWA Sprint Season 1, which has reduced fees across selected real-world asset perpetual markets.</p>
<p>The move into blue-chip equity names like JPMorgan and Walmart reflects a broader shift taking place across decentralized finance. <cite>Perpetual DEXs now command a 26% share of the crypto-derivatives market, a sign that decentralized infrastructure is capturing activity that was almost entirely the domain of centralized exchanges.</cite> A growing number of perp DEXs have followed suit, listing commodities, equities, and equity indices to broaden the universe of tradable assets.</p>
<p>For users, the appeal is straightforward: the ability to gain exposure to familiar equity names without having to cash out of crypto into a traditional brokerage account. The boosted rewards campaign running through June 2 follows a pattern the platform has used before, using time-limited incentives to attract liquidity and trading volume during the earliest phase of new listings.</p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong><br><a href="https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/aster-to-settle-rwa-perps-exclusively-in-usd1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Defiant: Aster to Settle RWA Perps Exclusively in USD1</a><br><a href="https://docs.pyth.network/price-feeds/core/how-pyth-works" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Pyth Network: How Pyth Works</a></p>

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