Aster DEX, a decentralized perpetual contract trading platform, announced adjustments to the $ASTER tokenomics model. It will adopt a pure staking rewards mechanism and abolish the monthly linear unlocking of 78.4 million tokens to reduce circulating inflows. The current monthly release amount is 1.8 million to 2.25 million tokens.

On March 27, Genius reached a strategic partnership with Aster, becoming a core distribution partner of Aster Chain. Users trading Aster perpetual contracts through Genius can enjoy discounts. Genius has achieved a trading volume of $60 million across multiple chains and has been selected for the "Aster Code" program, committed to providing value to Aster Chain.

Gate News reports that on March 25, CZ responded to user inquiries on social media today, stating that he may try to stake ASTER.

Gate News Update: On March 20th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 2.265 million ASTER from a CEX after 5 months of inactivity, worth approximately $1.54 million, and deposited it into Aster DEX.

Aster launched its staking feature on March 20th, allowing users to delegate ASTER tokens and choose lock-up periods to earn rewards through basic and loyalty incentives. The initial validators include Trust Wallet and others. The staking cycle runs from Monday to Sunday each week, and users must complete their staking before Monday to receive rewards.

Gate News bot message, Trader 0xf4b0 entered a long position on $ASTER following the mainnet launch yesterday. After $ASTER declined, the trader closed the $ASTER long position, resulting in a $183K loss. The trader subsequently opened a long position on 33,367 $HYPE valued at $1.4M. Address: 0xf4b

Gate News, on March 18th, Eric Trump tweeted that stablecoin project USD1 has launched perpetual contract trading pairs on decentralized perpetual contracts trading platform Aster DEX. Aster is the world's second-largest perpetual contract decentralized exchange with daily trading volume exceeding $1.3 billion and approximately $1.5 billion in total value locked on-chain, supported by YZi Labs.

neoyokio.eth whale's ASTER long position on Hyperliquid platform has expanded unrealized gains to $2.7 million with a return rate of 56.4%. After the whale's initial entry at $0.69, it added positions against the trend, reducing the average holding cost to $0.636. Recently ASTER surged to $0.78, now pulling back to $0.737.

Decentralized derivatives platform Aster launched Aster Chain on March 18, a high-performance privacy blockchain designed specifically for perpetual futures, supporting cross-chain asset deposits and emphasizing account-level privacy protection. Although the mainnet launch drove a brief surge in ASTER price, trading volume and total locked value declined significantly. Whether it can attract liquidity in the future will be key to its growth.