Get Started with $ASE

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

• 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 50,000 ASE (minimum self-bond, chain-enforced). There's no hard cap on bond size — the 10% per-block reward cap handles concentration economics. Unbonding takes 14 days. Stake is slashable for double-signing; downtime penalties are smaller.

Don't want to run a node? You'll be able to delegate to a validator and share in their rewards (commission + delegation shipping in a future update).

Key numbers

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