My aster-2:native rewards this week were almost 4x higher than last week, and the flywheel is starting to show its power.
What gets me most excited is that the value is flowing back to the people who have stayed committed. Long-term holders aren’t just watching the ecosystem grow they’re actively benefiting from it.
🔄 More participation → More protocol activity → More rewards → More accumulation → Even stronger long-term conviction.
This is the kind of positive feedback loop that builds sustainable communities: rewarding loyalty, incentivizing participation, and creating reasons to hold for the long run instead of chasing short-term hype.
If this trend continues, patient holders could be the biggest winners.
Aster has now see more than $1.3 trillion in volume...
According to DefiLlama data, @Aster_DEX has now seen a cumulative total of $1.311 trillion worth of perps volume.
It has also made more than $460 million in cumulative protocol fees...
These guys are printing money!
@oxansemsol I have always been bullish, bearish people today will be bullish when aster-2:native reaches $5. He who believes in aster buys and waits until an explosion of price arrives ⏳
This is year one for aster-2:native
Some of the commentary around it feels incredibly short term.
If you invested in a venture fund and called twelve months later asking why it hadn’t returned 20x, you’d be laughed out of the room.
What matters is execution.
@Aster_DEX continues to ship. The product improves. Liquidity deepens. New markets launch. The ecosystem expands.
The range everyone complains about may ultimately become the foundation everyone wishes they bought.
More importantly, I think many people are missing the bigger picture.
The investment case is not just ASTER.
It’s the structural shift toward decentralized financial infrastructure.
For the first time in history, a trader in Brazil, Singapore, Dubai, New York, or Nigeria can access the same markets from the same interface, 24/7.
Stocks, commodities, crypto, prediction markets, RWAs, private assets.
Everything eventually moves on chain.
The future is not a handful of regional brokerages operating during market hours.
The future is global, permissionless, and always on.
That is the DEX opportunity.
I’ve seen this movie before.
I watched BNB go from under $20 in 2019 to over $1,300 by 2025.
My $HYPE position took 2.5 years to really pay off.
The products looked unfinished. The critics were loud. The builders kept building.
That’s usually how this works.
Maybe it’s because I come from the venture side.
The best investments I’ve ever made were never about quarterly price action. They were about exceptional founders, strong products, and massive markets.
You invest in people first.
Then you invest in execution.
Then you give them time.
I have complete conviction in CZ, Leonard, the team, and what they’re building.
The product is better today than it was six months ago.
It will likely be better six months from now than it is today.
I can see the direction of travel very clearly.
If decentralized exchanges become the financial rails of the internet, temporary ranges are noise.
Patience is not a bug in investing.
It’s the edge.
Want to know why I’m bullish on this consolidation?
Look at how much aster-2:native has been staked at these levels.
While the market bleeds and altcoins keep making new lows, hundreds of millions of tokens have been locked up by people willingly removing supply from circulation.
That’s conviction.
Every dip gets bought, every sell-off gets absorbed, and the ecosystem continues to grow without needing someone to constantly prop it up.
A year ago people called it a ghost chain. Today it’s one of the most talked about projects on the timeline, whether people own it or not.
That’s what a self-sufficient ecosystem looks like.
The longer $ASTER consolidates while staking grows, buybacks continue, and users stick around, the more bullish the setup becomes. The market will figure it out eventually.
aster-2:native has been consolidating for 5 months straight
Aster is now a 10x away from hyperliquid:native
CZ is the dev. He’s only ever in his life said he’s bought two projects. binancecoin:native and aster-2:native. He also says if you can’t hold you won’t get rich
Just a matter of time.
All bearish people today on $ASTER will go bullish when the token passes the $1 then the $2 then when it makes a new ATH. Go ahead and sell, we accumulate at low prices 😃🦦