Aster leads on 1 of 3 shared benchmarks, edgeX on 2. Aster wins on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues (527 vs 292). edgeX wins on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL (0.039% vs 0.050%), Perp DEX cost invariance: all-in bps at $1M vs $1k, live slope ranked (1.099x vs 1.336x).
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.
zkSync-based perp DEX with low taker fees and a documented public REST API.
Aster
Trails0.050 %
edgeX
Leads0.039 %
Per chain
| Chain | Aster | edgeX |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 0.051% | 0.043% |
| BTC | 0.050% | 0.039% |
| SOL | 0.057% | 0.060% |
Aster
Leads527
edgeX
Trails292
Aster
Trails1.336x
edgeX
Leads1.099x
Per chain
| Chain | Aster | edgeX |
|---|---|---|
| ETH | 1.386x | 1.080x |
| BTC | 1.335x | 1.099x |
| SOL | 1.461x | 1.178x |
Aster and edgeX are compared on 3 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Aster leads on Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues. edgeX leads on Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL. See the live table on this page for every metric.
On the Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count across 14 venues benchmark, Aster leads at 527 versus edgeX at 292. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
On the Cheapest perp DEX, live all-in cost from $1k to $1M on ETH, BTC and SOL benchmark, edgeX leads at 0.039% versus Aster at 0.050%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.
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.
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.