Aster is a decentralized exchange that unifies perpetual futures, spot trading, and yield-bearing assets like USDF and asBNB into a multichain platform created through the merger of Astherus and APX ...
Funding rates are the engine that keeps perpetual futures tethered to spot markets. This article explains how they’re calculated, why they exist, and how leading Perp DEXs like GMX, dYdX, Hyperliquid, ...