Aster vs Binance

Binance leads on the only live benchmark. Binance wins on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized (3.00 bps vs 3.00 bps).

Read methodology Last measured Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:19:05 UTCWindow: rolling 24h2 shared benchmarks

Aster

Aster is a decentralized perps exchange (ex-ApolloX, backed by YZi Labs) on BNB Chain and other EVM networks, with a Binance-compatible API and 8 hour funding periods.

Binance

Official BNB Chain RPC endpoints operated by Binance. Multiple dataseed hosts (`bsc-dataseed1.binance.org` etc.) round-robin for load distribution.

Side by side measurements

Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized

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Provider	Funding cost to hold a long 24h	Annualized (ETH)	Per-hour rate (ETH)	BTC hold 24h	SOL hold 24h
Aster	3.00 bps	10.9%	0.13 bps	3.00 bps	3.00 bps
Binance	3.00 bps	10.9%	0.13 bps	3.00 bps	3.00 bps

Funding is signed. Positive means longs pay shorts, negative means longs get paid to hold. Venues settle on different native periods (1h for Hyperliquid and dYdX, 4h or 8h elsewhere); every figure is normalized from the venue's own quoted rate and interval before ranking. Funding is only the holding cost. Opening costs (taker fee, spread, impact) are the companion bench perp-fees.

Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked

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Aster

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Binance

Trails

0.00008 %

p99: 0%
rank: #1
samples: 2,880

Stability is not directionality. A venue with persistently positive but tight-banded funding ranks better here than one that flips between positive and negative every settlement, even if the second venue offers better average carry. Read alongside perp-funding for direction and average level.

Frequently asked questions

Aster vs Binance: which one is better?

Aster and Binance are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Binance leads on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper, Aster or Binance?

On the Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized benchmark, Binance leads at 3.00 bps versus Aster at 3.00 bps. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Aster vs Binance comparison measured?

Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.

How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing — panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.