Aster is the monetary layer of the MAP platform: a production-grade engine for issuing, distributing, and governing a central bank digital currency. Two-tier by design, rule-enforced at the rail, and country-agnostic from the first line of code.
Mint and burn against a central issuance reserve. Full audit trail from genesis.
Central bank to commercial banks and PSPs to retail wallets — the model 130+ central banks are designing for.
Spend limits, category and geographic restrictions, expiry, KYC tier caps — enforced server-side on every transfer, never client-side.
Append-only, tamper-evident transaction chain. Integrity verifiable on demand from the console.
Currency is configuration, not code. eKES today, any sovereign denomination tomorrow — same engine, zero changes.
Every movement is a single locked database transaction. Double-entry. No partial states, no race conditions.
Where a country starts its digital currency: attach the founding instruments, meet the launch conditions, and the engine deploys it whole.
Every currency launched on Aster, with citizen-verifiable transparency: supply by tier, rules in force with citations, chain integrity.
Post-launch monetary operations: mint and burn, distribution, policy intake for new circulars, the chained ledger.
Simulated institution and wallet portals to exercise a deployed currency end to end before anything is real.