Aster vs GMGN

Aster

Those are the Crypto General rates at VIP 1, where a new account starts. Maker orders have been free on every order-book market since February 2026. The taker rate falls with VIP tier, and a tier needs both 14-day volume and an average ASTER balance, so volume alone does not lower your fee. Group B pairs pay more, stock and commodity perpetuals pay a flat 0.0125%, and the 1001x and Shield modes have their own fee models.

GMGN

Every spot trade pays GMGN a flat 1% of its value on every chain, and copied trades and automated orders pay the same. Network costs come on top: gas plus the priority fee and tip you set on Solana, and gas on the EVM chains. Launchpad fees and token taxes apply where a token has them. The perps beta charges 0.015% maker and 0.045% taker. The Terms let GMGN change fees at any time, effective when posted, and authorize it to take fees straight from your wallet.

Aster

You sign in with a wallet (Rabby, MetaMask, Binance Wallet, or anything on WalletConnect) or with an email address, and neither flow includes an identity check. The Terms, last updated February 25, 2026, say Aster may run limited identity verification to comply with regulations and may refuse or limit service to anyone who does not comply, but they do not say what triggers a check. You also warrant that your stated location is accurate and agree not to use any means to get around the location restrictions.

GMGN

You sign up with Google, an email code, Telegram, or a browser wallet such as Phantom or MetaMask, with an optional invite code, and no identity document is asked for. The Terms and the Privacy Policy, both dated December 6, 2024, reserve no identity check. The policy lists wallet addresses, public on-chain data, a Telegram handle, contact details you choose to give, and usage data down to country-level location. Withdrawals need two-factor authentication, an account-security step rather than an identity check. Card purchases run through MoonPay or Onramper under those providers' own rules.

Aster

The Terms, last updated February 25, 2026, name eleven prohibited jurisdictions: the US, Canada, the UK, China, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Syria, plus any territory under comprehensive sanctions or a terrorist-supporting designation and anyone on a US, EU, or UK sanctions list. The test is where you live, are located, or are incorporated. Aster's separate prediction market rejects orders from a longer list of 34 countries that adds Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and others.

GMGN

The Terms, dated December 6, 2024, bar anyone in, under the control of, or a national or resident of Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or Syria, and anyone on the UN, US OFAC, or EU sanctions lists, and require users to be 18. They say GMGN runs the service from the British Virgin Islands, that users anywhere else are responsible for their own local law, and that GMGN may suspend anyone for any reason. The terms linked from the iOS app's store listing, dated January 1, 2025, name the same five countries. Neither version mentions the perps beta.

Aster

On the order book each market has its own cap, shown in the trading panel, and you can choose any lower level. The docs do not publish the full table, but stock perpetuals go to 50x, pre-IPO markets to 10x or 20x, and new community-listed markets start at 3x. Cross margin is the default and isolated is available, but Multi-Asset Mode is cross only. The separate 1001x mode offers up to 1001x on BTC, 250x on ETH, 75x on other coins, and 200x on forex, with every position isolated and no adding margin at 500x or above. Shield Mode runs from 20x to 1001x.

GMGN

The perps beta, open since September 21, 2026, sets a cap per market in GMGN's published risk table. BTC goes to 40x, and ETH, gold, silver, and the QQQ and SPY funds to 25x. SOL, XRP, Brent oil, and stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla go to 20x, most other markets to 10x, and six others to 5x. Each cap steps down as a position grows, so BTC drops to 20x above 12 million USDC of notional. Spot trading has no leverage.

Aster

The public market list carried 584 live perpetuals on September 25, 2026: about 450 crypto pairs and about 130 real-world-asset markets, among them 115 US, Hong Kong, and Korean stocks, 14 ETFs and indexes, and 11 commodities such as gold, silver, and oil, plus pre-IPO markets for OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX and a few pre-launch tokens. Most are quoted in USDT, and a handful settle in USD1. Shield Mode adds EUR and GBP forex, and there is a spot order book. Order types: market, limit, stop-limit, stop-market, trailing stop, TWAP, scaled, chase, and grid strategies, with post-only, reduce-only, hidden, and immediate-or-cancel options.

GMGN

Spot trading covers tokens on Solana, BNB Chain, Robinhood Chain, Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Stable, Arc, X Layer, HyperEVM, MegaETH, Monad, and Tron, as listed in the chain selector on September 26, 2026. The Trenches view follows new launches on launchpads such as Pump.fun, letsbonk, and Four.meme from creation through migration. Spot orders include market buys and sells, limit orders that expire after 1 hour, 24 hours, or 3 days, take-profit and stop-loss with trailing versions, buys and sells triggered by a migration, sells triggered by the developer selling, and wallet copy trading. The docs describe copy trading and auto-buy for Solana only. The perps beta lists 57 USDC-margined markets in GMGN's market data on September 26, 2026: 24 crypto, 30 stocks and ETFs, and gold, silver, and Brent oil.

Aster

Connect a wallet on BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, or Solana and deposit into the trading account through Aster's own bridge contracts, which are published along with a Sui address. USDT is the settlement asset and works from every chain. With Multi-Asset Mode on, USDC on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Solana, SOL and JLP on Solana, and BTC, ETH, BNB, USD1, USDF, asBNB, and ASTER on BNB Chain also count as margin at a haircut. A BNB Chain wallet needs at least 0.001 BNB. Email sign-in accepts only USDT on Arbitrum. Deposits carry no Aster fee and usually land in one to five minutes. The docs do not publish minimums.

GMGN

Signing in with Google, email, Telegram, or Phantom gives you GMGN-held wallets on each chain, funded by sending that chain's gas token, such as SOL, ETH, BNB, or TRX, to the address on the Deposit/Withdraw page. A deposit on the wrong network cannot be recovered. With an extension wallet connected, the same page moves funds across in one step, or you can trade from the extension wallet itself without GMGN's automation. The web app's Buy option takes a credit or debit card or Apple Pay through MoonPay, and the mobile app buys SOL, ETH, BNB, or USDC with local currency through Onramper in 59 countries and regions, each under the provider's own fees and checks. Convert moves funds between chains, and stablecoins sent by mistake can be sold for the chain's own token.

Aster

Choose the network, token, and amount. The destination chain's gas is deducted from the withdrawal, and Aster says the minimum fee can be as low as 1 USDT, and the withdrawal screen shows the exact amount. Withdrawals from Aster Chain are batched, need two of three validators to sign, and take about 30 seconds, longer to Ethereum. Any negative balance must be settled first with Rebalance. Profits older than 24 hours can be withdrawn in full, while same-day profits are capped by a daily limit the docs do not state.

GMGN

The Telegram bots cannot withdraw and send you to the website instead. You first bind two-factor authentication with Google Authenticator or a passkey, and withdrawals stay locked for 3 hours after binding it, 24 hours after unbinding or re-binding it, and 24 hours after a password reset. Transfers go to a whitelisted address, which takes 3 hours to activate after it is set or changed and then skips the 2FA prompt. A small balance must stay behind for rent and gas, and GMGN publishes no withdrawal fee beyond the network fee. Memecoins leave through the multi-wallet Consolidate and Distribute tools, which also need 2FA and list only tokens worth more than $10. GMGN's docs say the keys of GMGN-created wallets cannot be exported, while the current web app offers a one-time key download from a computer once 2FA is active. Imported wallets are excluded.

Aster

The referrer earns 10% of a referred user's perpetual trading fees and chooses how much of that to pass back as a discount, from nothing to the full 10%. Only new sign-ups qualify, the relationship lasts 365 days by default, liquidation fees and zero-fee volume do not count, and rebates are paid in the asset the fee was paid in. No ChainScouter code is active.

GMGN

GMGN pays referrers 10% to 30% of the trading fees of the people they bring in, rising with the volume referred, and a referrer can apply for a higher rate. One code covers the website and every bot, and an invite code entered at signup cannot be changed. Neither the docs nor the Terms publish a fee discount for the person who signs up. The Terms, dated December 6, 2024, limit referral links to people the referrer knows personally, bar posting them on websites, blogs, X, Reddit, or coupon sites, and let GMGN change, suspend, or void rewards at its discretion. No ChainScouter code is active.

Aster

The web app at asterdex.com is the main interface, with Pro, Shield, 1001x, and Spot as separate views. Aster Mobile is on Google Play under the Aster DEX developer account. The iOS build is distributed through TestFlight, and the docs still call the mobile app a beta. There is also a trading API with up to 30 keys per account.

GMGN

GMGN runs as a browser terminal at gmgn.ai, as a mobile app listed on the App Store as GMGN - Meme Track (published by GraceMatrix Technologies Limited since June 2025) and on Google Play as GMGN (published by GMGN Labs Limited), with a TestFlight build and a direct APK download also linked from gmgn.ai/app, and as a set of per-chain Telegram trading bots such as @GMGN_sol_bot. The web terminal holds the Trenches launch feed, trending lists, wallet and X trackers, copy trading, a portfolio view, and the perps beta, and an Agent API lets scripts and AI assistants read data and place trades with an API key. Support runs through the official Telegram group and the @gmgnai account on X.