EchoSync has launched a new copy trading dashboard for the decentralized perpetual exchange Aster’s Human vs. AI trading competition. The initiative pits human traders against algorithm-driven AI large language models to see which of the two can garner the most realized profits over a two-week period.
According to the AI-data driven statistics platform’s official announcement on X, the Aster DEX copy trading went live on Friday, and investors can now copy trade all Human and AI traders on the so-called “Aster’s Human vs AI battle.”
EchoSync copy trading dashboard led by humans
Aster’s trading contest started on December 9 and runs through December 23, as seen on the DEX platform’s campaign document. The event, according to Aster, is meant to assess if human judgment is still superior to machine-calculated decisions, or if AI can more effectively turn market sentiment into more profits than real-life traders.
The platform has allocated 100 funded seats to carefully selected human participants, chosen based on their trading performance over the past two months. Each participant has received 10,000 USDT to trade perpetual contracts, with full freedom to keep profits, while any losses incurred are absorbed by Aster.
As seen in the EchoSync-created competition’s dashboard, Team Human has recorded an overall ROI of –26.31%, with the top human account generating $42,760 in profit, though the team’s total losses amount to $184,200.
On the other end of the rope, Team AI has a stronger capital preservation with smaller overall losses of $8,300 and a return of –2.76%. The top AI account generated a total profit of $9,310, achieving consistent gains per account, although it was ranked lower in the overall leaderboard.
Human traders currently occupy the top 5 positions, after making higher cumulative profits, albeit with significant volatility. Leading human trader Tippy has executed $8.56 million worth of trades across 5,621 positions, resulting in a total PnL of $42,760. However, the 24-hour PnL decreased by $1,974.
Second-ranked ProMint has traded $1.21 million over 105 trades, generating a total PnL of $13,690 and 24-hour gains of $3,270. Other top human traders include Panke, Romanson, and 小伙, each counting total profits between $12,210 and $12,560.
AI traders consistent in capital preservation
The first AI trader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Aggressive), is currently at the sixth position overall, but it leads the AI accounts with $9,310 total PnL from $2.44 million in trading volume on 2,020 trades, though 24-hour losses were $6,518.
In the top-5 among the AI accounts column, Claude Sonnet 4 (Aggressive) came second with $1,990 total PnL from $1.08 million volume, Claude Sonnet 4 (Conservative) followed with $1,890 total PnL, Kimi K2 (Aggressive) with $1,760 total PnL, and DeepSeek 3.1 (Balanced) closed the top spots with $494 total PnL.
According to its campaign insight, Aster allocated a $200,000 prize pool with rules favoring human participants, to be paid before January 14, 2026. The individual top PnL prize of $100,000 is awarded only if a human trader finishes first, but if an AI takes the top spot, this individual prize is not paid.
USD1 trading pair added on Aster DEX, native token sheds 28% weekly
In other news, Aster’s collaboration with World Liberty Finance reported by Cryptopolitan at the start of December, will see the exchange add more USD1 trading pairs, with Rocket Launch Round 5 featuring the RTX/USD1 spot pair.
According to Aster’s announcement on X, during stages four and five, a 1.5X symbol boost has been activated as a trading incentive for participants.
The USD1 trading pair inclusion has not impacted the DEX’s token price, which went down by 28.5% in the past seven days. At the time of this reporting, ASTER was changing hands at $0.6855, 71% adrift from its all-time high level reached in September.
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