On March 18, among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, River (+9.11%) and MemeCore (+6.61%) showed the largest gains, while Mantle (-10.07%) and Aster (-8.73%) experienced the largest declines.

Gate News bot message, Trader 0xf4b0 entered a long position on $ASTER following the mainnet launch yesterday. After $ASTER declined, the trader closed the $ASTER long position, resulting in a $183K loss. The trader subsequently opened a long position on 33,367 $HYPE valued at $1.4M. Address: 0xf4b

Gate News, on March 18th, Eric Trump tweeted that stablecoin project USD1 has launched perpetual contract trading pairs on decentralized perpetual contracts trading platform Aster DEX. Aster is the world's second-largest perpetual contract decentralized exchange with daily trading volume exceeding $1.3 billion and approximately $1.5 billion in total value locked on-chain, supported by YZi Labs.

neoyokio.eth whale's ASTER long position on Hyperliquid platform has expanded unrealized gains to $2.7 million with a return rate of 56.4%. After the whale's initial entry at $0.69, it added positions against the trend, reducing the average holding cost to $0.636. Recently ASTER surged to $0.78, now pulling back to $0.737.

Decentralized derivatives platform Aster launched Aster Chain on March 18, a high-performance privacy blockchain designed specifically for perpetual futures, supporting cross-chain asset deposits and emphasizing account-level privacy protection. Although the mainnet launch drove a brief surge in ASTER price, trading volume and total locked value declined significantly. Whether it can attract liquidity in the future will be key to its growth.

Gate News bot message, Aster has launched its mainnet. A block explorer is now live on its website. The largest $ASTER long position on Hyperliquid holds 25.93M $ASTER valued at $20.4M, currently up $3.9M.

Gate News, on March 17th, payment infrastructure Pieverse launched an AI Agent Skill Shop. The shop allows users to select desired Skills, and developers can monetize their works through it. The first batch of Skills launched covers multiple platforms including PancakeSwap, Aster, and Four.Meme. Additionally, Pieverse's full-stack infrastructure layer Purr-Fect

Data from March 16 shows that despite weak overall trading volume on Perp DEX over the weekend, open interest continued to rise. Hyperliquid and Aster maintained their lead, with Hyperliquid's open interest reaching a one-month high. There were notable differences in 24-hour trading volume across platforms.

Gate News bot message, seven tokens are scheduled for unlocks next week. ASTER leads with an unlock value of $56.84M, followed by ZRO at $53.86M and RIVER at $32.27M. ESPORTS will unlock $12.83M, BBT $7.32M, KAITO $6.50M, and PENGU $5.62M. These represent the largest token unlock amounts for the upc

Data from March 13 shows that on-chain Perp DEX overall trading volume and open interest remained relatively unchanged, with Hyperliquid trading volume showing a slight recovery and open interest remaining at elevated levels. The main Perp DEX trading volume and open interest were: Hyperliquid $6.74 billion, Aster $2.36 billion, EdgeX $2.13 billion, and others.