APX Finance
APXDecentralized perpetual futures trading platform
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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.19% | 0.57% | 0.23% | 0.53% | 1.09% | 24.83% |
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APX is the governance and utility token of APX Finance (formerly ApolloX, a CEX-DEX hybrid perpetuals platform) on BNB Chain (BEP-20). It settles V1 trading fees and V2 trading rewards, distributes DAO staking rewards and governance votes, and serves as the ALP liquidity-pool reward. A 1% trading-fee buyback-and-burn drives deflation.
Top Holders
| Address | Token | Quantity | Percentage | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Null: 0x000...dEaD (dead) |   APX | 5,869,143,498.74 | 147.64% | $1.26B |
| 0xef29...9751 | APX | 1,722,170,683.75 | 43.32% | $371.31M |
| 0x7b60...25e0 | APX | 1,460,333,333 | 36.74% | $314.85M |
Open Markets
| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASTER/APX | $0.2283 | $192 | $192 | $1 | 0.16% |
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About APX Finance
A perpetual futures exchange that began on BNB Chain, launched in 2021 as ApolloX, merged with Astherus in late 2024 and was renamed Aster in March 2025, now centred on Aster Chain while keeping deployments on BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base. It serves traders who want on-chain leverage with centralised-exchange execution, where the constraint is order book depth and matching latency. The design is a hybrid: orders match inside an engine in milliseconds, fills are batched on chain, and margin and liquidations are handled by clearing contracts using oracle prices, with cross and isolated margin plus yield-bearing assets accepted as collateral; part of platform fees funds market purchases and burns.
Products span perpetuals, spot and yield-bearing collateral, and the synergy is that the collateral itself earns, so traders need not choose between holding spot and opening a position. Against fully on-chain order books its matching is closer to a centralised venue, collateral and positions are managed in one account, and yield-bearing assets can serve directly as margin. Multi-chain deployments let it serve existing users on each network with a consistent trading experience.
Rebranded to Aster: APX Finance merged with Astherus in late 2024 and rebranded as Aster (ASTER) in March 2025, with the token shifting from APX to ASTER.
Buyback and unlock: Aster Chain mainnet launched on March 17, 2026; Stage 6 buybacks began February 4, channeling up to 80% of platform fees to market repurchases, with 266 million ASTER bought back and 176 million burned to date; a 95.53 million token unlock (~$58 million) occurred on June 9.
In 2026 APX Finance completed its transition to the Aster brand, with the former ApolloX trading and market-making stack folded into the new platform while the APX token became a legacy asset still trading in a few venues. In early October, APX volume was concentrated in the APX/USDT pair on XT.COM, with residual swap pools on PancakeSwap and roughly 440 million tokens in circulation.
Developments under the new brand say more about where the product line is heading: Aster executed about 79.81 million dollars of token buyback and burn in September and published a 2026 roadmap centered on its own layer one network, RWA trading and native staking. For existing users, the dual design of a V1 order book and V2 fully onchain perpetuals remains, including BTC/USD and ETH/USD contracts with leverage up to 1001x.Technically, V1 pairs offchain matching with onchain settlement and custody, while V2 is fully onchain with dual Binance and Chainlink price feeds, ALP pools providing market-making liquidity and APX staking sharing V2 fees.Audits come from Certik, Salus Security and PeckShield, and V2 still offers up to 250x leverage on crypto perpetuals.V1 runs across BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base.
APX Finance's Future strategy and roadmap: incremental growth for the APX ecosystem will come mainly from the Aster layer one and RWA derivatives, while the legacy token's utility depends on whether migration and redemption channels stay open.
Captain — Founder; launched APX Finance (ApolloX) in 2021 with over ten years in traditional finance and crypto trading.
Neptune — Tech Lead; former Binance blockchain architect, owns the matching and trading system architecture.
Saturn — Product Lead; former derivatives quant trader at a large hedge fund.
Venus — Operations Lead; previously held operations roles at exchanges including MEXC.
APX Finance perpetual futures charge on notional value: Maker 0.02% and Taker 0.07%. In APX Finance's official example, a 49,000 USDT taker leg pays 34.3 USDT, while a 49,500 USDT maker leg pays 9.9 USDT; discounted rates are available through platform campaigns.