Each perpetual contract monitoring real-world belongings (RWA) on Aster will settle completely in $USD1, World Liberty Monetary’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, based on posts from each initiatives on X.
The primary markets rolling out embrace gold, silver, crude oil, and Brent crude, with extra markets to observe, Aster stated. The charge construction for $USD1 commodity pairs is ready at 1 foundation level for takers and a damaging 0.5 foundation factors for makers — that means the alternate pays a rebate to liquidity suppliers.
The 2 sides additionally stated they’re “exploring integration throughout their respective tokens,” although neither venture elaborated.
The association positions $USD1 as the bottom asset for Aster’s RWA vertical, giving $WLFI‘s stablecoin unique infrastructure-level entry to a fast-growing section of on-chain buying and selling.
The announcement extends a partnership that has escalated rapidly. $USD1, which launched in April 2025, is now the sixth-largest stablecoin with roughly $4.4 billion in circulation, based on Coingecko.
$WLFI has been pushing distribution aggressively — most just lately by a toolkit that lets AI brokers transact autonomously utilizing $USD1, alongside a Binance marketing campaign providing a 135 million $WLFI reward pool to $USD1 holders and listings on Coinbase and MEXC.
For Aster, the commodity enlargement tracks with its personal transformation from a crypto-only perp DEX right into a multi-asset buying and selling platform. The alternate already provides perpetuals on U.S. equities alongside its core crypto derivatives and just lately launched the genesis part of Aster Chain, a privacy-focused Layer 1 utilizing zero-knowledge proofs.
Each initiatives’ native tokens are comparatively muted at this time, with ASTER flat whereas $WLFI is up 2%.
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