The Aster Open Standards began with AOS-1, which opened spot listings to projects meeting a published set of criteria. Under… pic.twitter.com/sFtII7bcMl — Aster 🥷 (@Aster_DEX) August 11, 2026This innovative system mandates that qualified projects deposit 1 million ASTER tokens as a prerequisite for submitting a perpetual futures market application. Expanding Beyond Spot Market FrameworkThis perpetual futures protocol represents an evolution from AOS-1, which established open application procedures for spot market listings. According to Aster, perpetual contract listings have historically operated through confidential negotiations between cryptocurrency projects and trading platforms. That arrangement additionally featured a $200,000 ASTER token incentive program for traders.