Aster, a decentralized derivatives and commodities trading venue, has announced a partnership with World Liberty Financial (WLFI) to use WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin as the core settlement and payment layer for bringing real-world assets (RWAs) such as gold and oil onchain. Under the collaboration, Aster will structure trading, margin, and settlement for commodities and traditional financial products around USD1, effectively positioning the stablecoin as the base unit of account and collateral across Aster’s emerging RWA and derivatives markets. This expands on earlier integrations where Aster listed USD1 trading pairs and promoted USD1-based perpetual markets as it prepares the launch of its Aster Chain Layer 1. World Liberty Financial is a DeFi protocol and stablecoin issuer backed by members of the Trump family, with USD1 marketed as a programmable dollar for trading, payments, and tokenization. The Aster partnership fits WLFI’s broader strategy to extend USD1’s footprint across exchanges and tokenization platforms, adding a commodities-focused venue where onchain representations of assets like gold and oil can be traded and settled in USD1. For Aster, anchoring RWAs and derivatives to a single stablecoin is intended to deepen liquidity, standardize collateral, and improve settlement efficiency as it expands from crypto perpetuals into tokenized commodities and other real-world financial products.

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