aPEG is paired with $ASTEROID — not ETH.
Every aPEG trade routes through a single Uniswap v4 pool: ASTEROID / aPEG. There is no ETH/aPEG market. If you want aPEG, you go through Asteroid; if you sell aPEG, you exit into Asteroid. This is the design, not an accident.
Why pair against Asteroid?
Pairing against Asteroid creates a flywheel: the pool charges a 1% fee on every swap, those fees accrue to the project's initial liquidity position, and the project keeps its share of the fees as $ASTEROID held in treasury. As trading volume grows, the treasury's Asteroid position grows with it — independent of price action, independent of new minting. Volume itself is the asset.
How the flywheel turns
1. Trade
A buyer swaps Asteroid for aPEG (or vice versa) in the Asteroid/aPEG pool. The Uniswap v4 pool charges a 1% fee on the swap.
2. Fees accrue
The fee is split among everyone holding LP positions in that pool. The project owns the initial LP position, so a share of every trade's fee lands in that position — paid in both tokens.
3. Asteroid → treasury
The project collects fees and parks the $ASTEROID side in the treasury, long-term. The treasury grows passively as the pool trades — no inflation, no new mints, no tokenomics gymnastics.
4. Backing for holders
Treasury Asteroid is backing for the aPEG ecosystem. The more volume the pool sees, the deeper that backing gets. Holders benefit from a treasury that compounds with activity, not from dilutive emissions.
What this means in practice
- You buy/sell aPEG against Asteroid. Use a router (Uniswap UI, 1inch, etc.) that auto-routes your ETH through Asteroid → aPEG if you don't already hold $ASTEROID.
- Volume is the moat. A high-volume, high-fee-tier pool means a faster-growing treasury, which in turn makes the project more durable.
- No fee extraction in the hook. The Uniswap v4 hook touches zero swap deltas — fees follow normal LP accounting. This keeps aPEG eligible for Uniswap's routing allowlist; routers will quote it alongside any other pool.
Think of it as a vending machine. The machine sells you a token. Every time you buy one, it also hands you a randomly generated astronaut shiba sticker that stays attached to the token until you give it away.
1. Buy
Swap $ASTEROID for $aPEG in the Asteroid/aPEG pool on Uniswap. For every whole token you receive, the contract mints a brand-new piece — a unique 32×32 shiba with a rolled palette, coat pattern, mouth, antenna, blush, and more. Holding 5 aPEG = holding 5 shibas.
2. Hold or transfer
Hold: piece stays with you, untouched.
Send: the piece moves with the token to the new wallet, and an internal counter ticks up — like a passport stamp showing how many wallets it has visited.
You can also ship a specific piece by ID via transferPiece(to, pieceId); the matching token follows automatically.
3. Sell & burn
Selling aPEG back to the pool burns the piece forever and bumps a global globalBurnCount. The supply of pieces shrinks one for one with each token sold back.
Selling peer-to-peer doesn't burn — only the pool burns.
No pieces minted yet. They appear here when someone buys. View the collection →