Development Milestones

How Astera came to be

Date	Milestone	Logged by
2025-Jul-25	First mint of asUSD on Linea	SAMSoN
2025-Jul-29	Open $11,500,000 LOC to Etherex asUSD-USDC	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-04	Consensys purchases $1,500,000 of asUSD and creates Stableswap pool paired against USDC ($3M total)	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-06	Epoch 0 of Etherex, $45,000 of emissions on asUSD	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-13	Epoch 1 of Etherex, $15,000 USDC bribe on the LOC to farm REX to become a stakeholder in Etherex.	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-21	Astera locks 24,186.66 xREX, the first step of Astera as a tresaury protocol, acquiring infrastructure and revenue external to the platform. This was under 0.01% of the total voting power. - Perpetual voting power - Revenue outside of Astera - Stakeholders in the success of the Linea economy	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-26	Astera Lend (the mint of asUSD) is launched. This is the primary facilitator for asUSD and foundation of Astera as a CDP solution.	SAMSoN
2025-Aug-28	Astera grows xREX position to 124,186.66 xREX.	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-04	A new Mini Pool for REX33 goes live, Lend Total Market Size eclipses $10M USD in 11 hours. Epoch 4 of Etherex had over $100,000 of emissions directed at asUSD.	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-04	Astera grows xREX position to 0.08% of the total vote: 214,781.15 xREX	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-09	Astera featured with Euler, Zerolend, Etherex, MYX and Aave in a DeFi Panel at the online Linea TGE event. Thank you for a great appearance Yuvi.	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-09	Astera receives 9,001,249 $LINEA from the Builders Grant	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-11	Astera grows xREX position to 0.11% of the total vote: 300,017.49 xREX	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-16	Total Market Size of Astera Lend eclipses $20M for the first time	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-17	Astera trending on Linea Hub.	SAMSoN
2025-Sep-18	Astera grows xREX position to 0.16% of the total vote: 448,583.44 xREX	SAMSoN