Aster
It can place orders without you approving each one. Paper trading is available.
Can trade unattended
From our listingOfficial GitHub org has an MCP server and agent skills (its docs don't mention them)…
- Category
- Crypto exchanges
- Pricing
- no API fee
- Best for
- Crypto exchanges · crypto perpetuals, crypto spot
- Verified
- 2026-10-30
Agent Risk Score (v2)
Agent risk 64% (partial, 5 of 7 inputs)
| Input | From official docs | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the keys | With the withdraw permission off, an agent wallet can only trade and move funds between the owner's sub-accounts source | 20 / 20 |
| Spending limits enforced outside the agent | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 20 |
| Human approval | API orders execute with no approval step source | 0 / 15 |
| Sending funds to new addresses | Withdraw is a separate agent permission that requires an IP whitelist source | 15 / 15 |
| Transaction preview or simulation | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 10 |
| Open source and audits | Closed: no public source code in our listing source | 0 / 10 |
| Incident record (last 12 months) | No incident naming this tool in our incident tracker for the last 12 months, and every scored input links an official source source | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 64% of the points we could check | 45 / 70 |
Safety score
| Input | From our listing | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Can it place live orders unattended? | API orders execute with no per-order approval step source | 0 / 25 |
| Order approval or confirmation options | No per-order approval; market-maker protection and a countdown cancel-all (dead-man's switch) (official docs) source | 8 / 15 |
| Paper, demo or testnet mode | Testnet app, API and daily faucet (official docs) source | 15 / 15 |
| Withdrawal permission needed or allowed | Agent wallets have a separate withdraw permission; with it off they can only move funds between the owner's sub-accounts (official docs) source | 15 / 15 |
| Scoped keys, permission scopes or IP whitelisting | Agent wallets with separate perp, spot and withdraw flags, a required expiry, and an IP whitelist when withdraw is on (official docs) source | 10 / 10 |
| Open source or audited | The 7 published audits cover vault, earn and stablecoin products, not the perp engine, chain or bridges (official docs) source | 0 / 10 |
| Sourced and verified facts | Facts from the vendor's official docs | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 58% of the points we could check | 58 / 100 |
Full facts
| Category | Exchanges & brokers for bots |
|---|---|
| Assets | crypto perpetuals, crypto spot |
| Live vs paper | live; testnet app and API with a daily faucet |
| Order approval / safety | Official GitHub org has an MCP server and agent skills (its docs don't mention them). Agent wallets with separate perp, spot and withdraw permissions, a required expiry and an IP whitelist when withdraw is on; its terms ban bots without express permission |
| Pricing / free tier | no API fee; 0% maker / 0.04% taker on general crypto perps |
| Rate limits | 2,400 request weight per minute per IP and 1,200 orders per minute per account. |
| Official / community | official |
| Last checked | 2026-10-30 |
| Source | github.com |
| Regions (US / UK / EU) | US, Canada, UK, China, Russia, Ukraine and several sanctioned countries. |
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