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How Binance's CZ is Guiding Aster Founder Leonard

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The rise of Aster and CZ's endorsement of the project with Aster CEO Leonard. Binance Alum and Aster CEO Leonard joins CoinDesk Live from Binance Blockchain Week to discuss the project's sudden rise, which gained massive attention after a public endorsement from CZ. Plus, Leonard reveals the valuable advice he received from the Binance founder and breaks down why he believes perpetual DEXs could soon surpass centralized exchanges. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen.

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0:00.0

We are joined now by our next guest,

0:05.0

Astor CEO Leonard.

0:09.0

Hey Leonard.

0:10.0

Hi, good morning.

0:12.0

Good morning to you too.

0:13.0

How are you enjoying the event so far?

0:15.0

I have to say Sam told us he was going to get in the bungee later,

0:19.0

and so we'll have a video of that up somewhere have you

0:21.7

walked the floor what's the vibe been like for you all it's very exciting like um i previously

0:27.1

joined binance blockchain week as like not as like a sponsor this is the first time doing it

0:32.7

feels very different that now you're paying so uh so yeah but but overall, I think the vibe is very exciting.

0:41.0

And tomorrow we have our five-side chat.

0:43.4

We have a lot more that we want to share with the audience about our roadmaps,

0:48.3

what we want to do.

0:49.4

So very excited.

0:51.9

Leonard, you know, Astor has gotten so much buzz over the last couple of months.

0:59.4

Before we get into all that you're working on and what you're doing, I just want to know what it feels like as a founder to create something that suddenly everyone's talking about.

1:08.0

How does that feel to you?

1:10.1

It feels very surreal.

1:12.6

So if everyone was saying, just jump of nowhere, and then all this overnight

1:20.6

that says, how does it feel, we actually worked on this product for four years.

1:23.6

I think it's the same story for a lot of founders.

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