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Get Started with $ASE

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Updated 2026-09-09: $ASE trades live on MEXC (ASE/USDT) and Uniswap.

What is ASE?

ASE is the native token of the Asentum blockchain. It does four things: pays gas, secures the chain via staking, powers governance voting, and sets minimum thresholds for network participation (validator bond, proposal bond).

1,000,000,000 fixed supply. No inflation - validator rewards come from a pre-allocated 150M pool, not from minting. Base fees are burned, making ASE deflationary under sustained usage.

How to get ASE

MEXC (live now). ASE trades as an ASE/USDT pair on MEXC. Trade at mexc.com ↗.
Uniswap (live now). ASE trades on Uniswap v2 (Ethereum L1) in an ASE/WETH pool. Contract address: 0x041Ff0E49F6F774E7DC7bD10Ee4A14c00B1D80B2 ↗. Swap directly at app.uniswap.org ↗. LP locked 12 months via Team Finance.
Presale (closed). 16% of supply sold at 625 Gwei / token. Buyers can claim at /claim. Historical detail at The Sale.
Testnet faucet (test ASE). The faucet drips free test ASE for development. Test ASE has no monetary value and does not carry over to mainnet.
Run a validator. Earn block subsidies from the 150M rewards pool + priority fees. See Run a Validator.

Gas fees

Every transaction pays a gas fee in ASE. EIP-1559 fee market: a base fee (100% burned) plus an optional priority tip (to the block proposer). Sending a simple transfer costs fractions of a cent at current gas levels.

Bonding and validation

To run a validator, bond at least 500 ASE (minimum self-bond, chain-enforced). That makes you a candidate; each epoch the 100 signing committee seats go to the largest stakes, and the cutoff (currently about 1,350 ASE) moves as people bond. The maximum self-bond is 50,000,000 ASE, and the 10% per-block reward cap handles concentration economics (any excess returns to the reward pool). Unbonding takes 1,296,000 blocks (about 30 days at 2-second blocks; longer when blocks are slower). Double-signing gets a validator slashed (tombstoned and removed from the active set; no stake is burned today, burning is planned).

Don't want to run a node? Delegation is coming in a future update and is not live on testnet. Once it ships you'll be able to delegate to a validator and share in its rewards.

Key numbers

Total supply	1,000,000,000 ASE
Presale price	625 Gwei / token
Launch price	~630 Gwei / token (AMM open)
Presale hardcap	100 ETH
Max per wallet	2 ETH
LP lock	12 months (Team Finance)
Min validator bond	500 ASE
Max validator bond	50,000,000 ASE (plus a 10% per-validator cap on each block's rewards)
Unbonding period	1,296,000 blocks (about 30 days at 2-second blocks; longer when blocks are slower)

For the full allocation, vesting schedule, and circulating-supply timeline see Distribution. For standard risk disclosures see Disclosures.