That's right, whether it's lighter, edgex, paradex, it's actually just another account address binding the user's wallet address, and is not a dex at all. Only the hype account address is truly the same as the wallet address, and after the hip3 upgrade, it has achieved permissionless access to trading.

As for aster, unless it can free itself from BNB's constraints, it will forever be a puppet of BNB.