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. Astrolescent's team page names Timan Rebel and Meronym as its founders in 2021 and says the project "is currently ran by Timan". Rebel, an Amsterdam startup founder who also contributes to DefiPlaza and HUG, was appointed the Radix Foundation's Interim Hyperscale Lead in November 2025. A co-founder, Michael Videtto, represented the project on Radix's own DeFi Download podcast during the USDA stablecoin period in 2023, and does not appear on the 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_alland 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.
Funding and sustainability
Asked directly in the main Radix group on 3 September 2026 whether Astrolescent was his full-time job, Timan Rebel answered at 20:36:57 UTC that it "used to be my fulltime job for about 2.5 years, living of my savings and the FND grants", and that he had "recently started a part-time position as CTO at a scale-up". It is the first public account of how the project has been paid for, and it names two sources rather than the product: his own savings, and grants from the Radix Foundation.
The same message gives the reason the arrangement changed, and it bears directly on the revenue model described above. "I had hoped the bridge would generate enough volume, but Hyperlane didn't allow for fee-sharing and almost nobody swapped anymore via RocketX." The bridge is the newest of the five streams whose fees go to $ASTRL stakers and the one the front page advertises first, and by its operator's account it did not earn. Hyperlane is a permissionless protocol that anyone may deploy a route on, which is what makes it reachable at all; the other side of that openness is that it owes an integrator nothing, and the fee a warp route charges is the protocol's.
The exchange came four days into the network halt, with every Hyperlane-bridged asset drained off Radix and the ledger stopped since 21:19 UTC on 31 August 2026. Astrolescent's own price feed has been serving the last quotes the pools produced before the stop. The project remains active and Rebel continues to run it.