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Overview

Astrolescent is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator and cross-chain bridge on the Radix network. Its core product routes each trade across Radix's leading DEXes to secure the best available price, splitting larger orders across multiple venues to minimise price impact. It aggregates liquidity from Radix DEXes including Ociswap, CaviarNine and DefiPlaza, presenting a single swap interface over the whole market.

Beyond aggregation, Astrolescent has expanded into a cross-chain bridge — advertised as "fast and low-cost cross-chain bridging" — alongside token swaps, staking, limit orders, liquidity pools and a validator node. The project was founded by Michael Videtto and is documented at its team page.

Products and Services

Astrolescent bundles several DeFi services around its aggregator, each of which generates fees that flow to $ASTRL stakers:

  • DEX aggregator — the flagship product, routing and splitting swaps across Radix DEXes for optimal execution.
  • Cross-chain bridge — bridging assets in and out of the Radix network.
  • Limit orders — on-ledger limit-order execution against aggregated liquidity.
  • Liquidity pools — pools whose trading fees contribute to protocol revenue.
  • Staking & validator node — an Astrolescent-operated Radix validator, with staking that shares protocol revenue with $ASTRL holders.

Per the documentation, stakers "receive a share of the fees generated by Astrolescent's aggregator, bridge, limit order, pools, and validator node."

$ASTRL Token

$ASTRL is the official yield-bearing governance token of Astrolescent. The protocol states that 100% of its profits are shared with $ASTRL stakers, drawn from all five revenue streams (aggregator, bridge, limit orders, pools and validator). Holders also qualify for recurring airdrops.

The token's on-ledger facts are verifiable directly on the Radix ledger (resource resource_rdx1t4tjx4g3qzd98nayqxm7qdpj0a0u8ns6a0jrchq49dyfevgh6u0gj3, viewable on the Radix Dashboard):

  • Total supply — 36,000,000 $ASTRL, fixed: the minter authority is set to deny_all and locked, so no new tokens can ever be created.
  • Divisibility — 18 decimal places.
  • Supply controls — the token is not freezable and not recallable; a burner authority exists but supply cannot be inflated.

As of 26 July 2026, $ASTRL traded at approximately 7.66 XRD (~$0.0079) per token. Ledger facts verified via the Radix Gateway on 26 July 2026; market figures move continuously.

History

Astrolescent originally planned a fully-collateralised stablecoin, $USDA, alongside its aggregator. In June 2023 the team announced it was discontinuing $USDA following the insolvency of its banking partner, Prime Trust, and refocused solely on the DEX aggregator. That "back to our core" pivot also set out plans to relocate operations from the US to the Netherlands, to move governance to a community DAO, and to share aggregator fees with $ASTRL holders.

The revenue-sharing model has since gone live: $ASTRL is now a yield-bearing governance token that distributes protocol profits to stakers, and the product surface has grown from a single aggregator into the aggregator-plus-bridge suite described above. Early development updates and airdrops to stakers marked the start of that transition.