aster runs atomic cross-chain settlements in 300ms across bnb, ethereum, solana and arbitrum. trader on arbitrum fills against solana liquidity without bridging.hyperliquid stuck on single chain hitting congestion at 3,100 orders/sec. aster handles 25,000/sec by parallel matching across 4 chains. liquidity fragmentation becomes liquidity aggregation.$60b valuation defending single-chain architecture against $1.9b competitor with 4x the execution paths. ...