Dialogue with Aster CEO: When CZ Knocks with 'Overwhelming Traffic', How Are We Preparing to Respond
Aster CEO Leonard discusses the project's explosive growth, challenges, and future vision in an exclusive interview. The conversation covers the recent "Human vs. AI" trading competition, where a key insight was that users inherently trust AI agents more for decentralized, trustless asset management due to their predictable, incentive-agnostic nature—a major focus for Aster's next development phase.
The discussion then addresses the immense, sudden attention from CZ (Changpeng Zhao), who publicly disclosed holding over $2 million in Aster tokens. Leonard describes this a positive validation that brought both "sweet pressure" and a crash course in scaling under intense demand, ultimately forcing rapid improvements in UX and system stability.
In the highly competitive Perp DEX arena, Leonard emphasizes that sustainable growth hinges on product excellence and building a closed-loop value flywheel: creating real value, having users pay for it, and effectively returning that value to token holders.
Aster is also pioneering privacy with features like "Shield Mode," which offers private trading, extreme leverage, and a profit-sharing fee model. Its upcoming Aster Chain is framed not as a general-purpose ecosystem but as an "app-chain" meticulously built to optimize its core trading product's performance, transparency, and privacy features.
Looking ahead to 2026, Leonard's key expectations are: greater adoption of on-chain privacy features, breakthroughs in AI-powered trustless asset management, and the expansion of perpetual contracts ("perps") to a much wider range of quantifiable assets, including prediction markets and novel indexes.
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