PANews reported on June 15th that decentralized exchange protocol Aster announced support for Binance's bStocks as collateral assets for perpetual contracts on the BNB Chain. Users can deposit their bStocks into their Aster perpetual accounts after enabling multi-asset mode, with up to 90% of their market value counted as margin, enabling "holding shares while opening positions." The initial batch of bStocks available for collateral includes TSLAB, NWDAB, CRCLB, and SNDKB. These tokenized securities are held 1:1 by regulated custodians of corresponding US stocks, but do not represent direct ownership of the stocks.