The "Violent Aesthetics" of Liquidity and the Power Shift of RWA

Many people haven't realized how genius the underlying logic is behind Aster's announcement to make $USD1 the only settlement currency for RWA. This is a flank attack on "liquidity hegemony."
In the Web3 world, the advantage of being first creates the thickest fortress. Hyperliquid has already turned the USDC liquidity black hole into a fortress. If you Aster still follow and use USDC to trade the same pairs, no matter how beautiful your UI is, you're just picking up crumbs in their bowl. But this time, Aster is extremely clever: they directly flipped the table—playing with crude oil ($CLUSD1 ) and gold ($XAUUSD1 ) on their turf, with USDC and USDT completely barred entry. USD1 is the only fuel.
This "exclusive settlement" move directly shifts from "requesting users to use" to "forcing users to use," a dimensionality reduction attack.
Do you want to get a piece of the RWA pie? Do you want to hedge against geopolitical oil price fluctuations? Sorry, first hold USD1. This artificially created "application-layer black hole," combined with their extremely aggressive fee wars—earning 1bps on orders, with -0.5bps on placements—it's basically "liquidity bribery." For top quantitative traders and high-frequency arbitrageurs, negative fees mean the platform is subsidizing you to deepen liquidity.
We often say many stablecoins die from "lack of use cases," with background but like a vase. But this time, USD1, riding on WLFI's political momentum, directly penetrated the core of Aster's high-frequency consumption scene. When traditional gold, silver, and Brent crude oil are brought on-chain and settled only in USD1, the urgent need for such scenes will push the market cap to grow steadily. Aster isn't just challenging Hyperliquid's depth; it's using USD1 to rebuild a revolutionary stronghold of its own. This is a classic "rural encircling the city" strategy—avoiding the most advantageous USDC battlefield and establishing dominance in the blue ocean of RWA. This strategic business monopoly is far more terrifying than mere technological iteration.
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