The ZINC community is now in Discord!
One place where you can:
- Catch announcements
- Have a chat
- Share your wins
- Raise support tickets
Join now: https://t.co/8R1nSz53dP
The Zinc mines are built to reward both miners and stakers.
If you are holding ZINC in your wallet, the best move is to stake it with us.
Here is a quick explainer on how much SOL you can earn as yield.
Let that zinc in
🦺
Staking is live on Aster Chain.
Delegate $ASTER to validators, choose a lock period, and earn rewards every epoch (weekly) through two layers: Base Rewards and Loyalty Rewards.
🔗 https://t.co/EsNURbS8J9
Aster API V3 is live.
Starting Mar 16, V1 latency will gradually increase (up to ~200ms by Mar 18).
If you're running algo strategies on Aster, migrate now.
It’s already been two seasons and many winners. I’m happy that some of them are people who support the community here on X every single day.
If you’re a WW holder and want to be part of the Telegram community, send me a DM and I’ll help you with that.
Looking forward to seeing what the reward for Season 3 will be.
There are a lot of prizes on the table. Do you really want to stay out of this?
$whitewhale
Leonard, CEO of $ASTER, on the sources of rewards for staking:
- One part will be a stable issuance from the ecosystem and community fund. This will be like a small base APY awarded to long-term stakers. The longer you stake, the higher the base APY you'll receive.
- The other, more variable part will depend on the protocol's revenue. We want to return the generated fees directly to our stakers. That's the general principle behind this mechanism. Rewards will be paid in Aster.
Addressing ongoing FUD
There are some allegations swirling around regarding Aster and the team that are simply factually incorrect. These accusations are made without any evidence to deliberately sway public opinion with malicious intent. I'm addressing these allegations not because they deserve attention, but it would be unfair for the team and Aster holder to not address them.
Before we address some of the allegations I want to acknowledge that we understand the frustration of many holders because of the recent price performance of Aster. We heard those feedbacks and are trying our best to reverse the trend. If you want to contribute, please come join our discord community to share your thoughts and build together.
While short term prices are unpredictable, we believe the long term price should gravitate towards the token’s intrinsic value. How much value that the project creates and how well the tokenomics capture and redistribute that value determine the long term price. We are working on both and will be addressing both later in the thread.
On Dumping claim, CZ Involvement & "Exit Liquidity"
- While CZ is an advisor to the project with Yzi labs as investor. Aster is an independent project not controlled or directly operated by CZ or Binance entities. Yzi labs investment is also locked in long term. Claims that CZ/Binance insiders created Aster for dumping or that the project exists solely as exit liquidity are baseless.
- Token emissions and buybacks follow our published tokenomics (viewable on our docs), designed to reward liquidity providers, traders and long-term holders, not to enable dumps. We have recently updated our buyback mechanism to make the buybacks more predictable and independent by enabling on-chain daily buyback programs that execute automatically from fees generated. You can track that using our community built dashboard https://t.co/8FPkaRLp0Z
- Aster has bought back 254M token and burned 78M token and relocked 78M back into the airdrop allocation, reducing total and circulating supply. We plan to burn the remaining of the bought back tokens. These are all verifiable on chain, and there are constant buybacks daily and more burns are planned.
- Aster is not a competitive sabotage targeting any other DEX. We believe the market needs a privacy focus perp dex, and competition drives innovation and better products which eventually benefit the entire ecosystem and users.
Our Commitment & Next Steps
FUD aside, it is important that Aster is moving forward. That is the best way to counter all these allegations. Aster is focused on building a better product in the upcoming months:
- Deeper liquidity on a wider range of assets, aggressive listing of alts and other tradefi assets.
- Privacy-focused L1 to make trade verifiable while staying private by March
- Staking for holders coming in March after L1
- Better trading experience, redesigned UI with faster loading speed coming soon
We also are improving our tokenomics, reducing circulating supply:
- S6 will be our last trading airdrop, future circulating supply growth will be slowed down.
- Automatic buyback continues with up to 80% of all fees collected during S6
- We will be burning all remaining buybacks totaling around 98M to date and expect to do the same for S6 buybacks
- We are pausing monthly 1% unlock until staking goes live, in response to community concern on unlock pressure.
We stand by our product, and are happy to provide on-chain proofs, audits, or discuss specifics with analysts/community.
Let's judge by execution, not speculation. We are grateful to our supporters that chose to build with us for the long term.
- Leonard
New Free Indicator: Apollo Volume Candles 🎯
Most traders ignore the one thing that actually confirms a move: volume.
Price tells you what happened. Volume tells you if it mattered.
So I built something to help.
Apollo Volume Candles is a free TradingView indicator that:
✅ Colours candles based on relative volume strength
✅ Flags exhaustion zones when climactic volume stacks
✅ Detects confirmed breakouts backed by participation
✅ Highlights dry-up periods where no one's playing
High volume = bright candles.
Low volume = faded.
You instantly see which moves have conviction and which ones are noise.
I use this on every single chart. It's part of my core workflow. Now you can too.
Grab it free on TradingView (link below)
P.S — if you like my free work and want to support me, you can do so by retweeting this post so other traders can benefit too 🙏
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New Free Indicator: Apollo Trend Status 🎯
I keep seeing traders make same mistake over and over:
"This looks like a good entry"
*posts chart that's clearly in a downtrend*
So I built something to help.
Apollo Trend Status is a free TradingView indicator that tells you:
✅ Current trend direction (up/down/no trend)
✅ The exact level where the trend breaks
✅ Based on classical Dow Theory — not some made-up algo
It won't tell you when to buy or sell. It just makes the trend OBVIOUS so you stop fighting it.
Long a downtrend and you're betting against sellers in control. Short an uptrend and you're fading buyers who keep stepping in higher.
Either way, you're gambling on catching the reversal. Most don't. This keeps you on the right side.
The best traders don't predict, they react to what the chart is actually doing.
Grab it free on TradingView (link below)
P.S - Stop longing downtrends. 🏛️
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🪂 ASTER LOYALTY BONUS
You showed up. You traded. You believed in what we're building.
Today, we're saying thank you (again).
197, 350 $ASTER just care-dropped to 7,710 loyal wallets who participated in our recent trading campaigns ( $HEMI, $AT, $B2, $NB ).
Check your wallet or Aster Spot account.
Reward tiers:
🎯 1 campaign participated: 15 $ASTER
🎯 2 campaigns participated: 30 $ASTER
🎯 3 campaigns participated: 45 $ASTER
🎯 4 campaigns participated: 60 $ASTER
On top of that, we randomly selected 10 addresses with lucky numbers and dropped an extra 1,000 $ASTER each.
If you're one of the lucky 10, show yourself! We want to know who you are 👀
This is just the beginning. We're building the best, and you're part of that journey.
Hold your $ASTER. Use the platform 💛
Week 3 Free Tickets
We want to give some @Goblintown Shweepshtakes tickets away for free over the next few days!
All you need to do is (1) follow us, (2) like, (3) retweet and (4) reply to THIS post with your base/eth wallet and you may end up with one, two, or many tickets!
We will check your wallet and give more favor to wallets that already have bought tickets. Also, we will favor replies from goblintown pfp's.
Once you get, you can enter the Shweepshtakes at https://t.co/alAFid0OEx
These are the four characters available for week 3.
It’s unbelievable that you can actually buy this under $2.
Do you understand how early $ASTER is?
Next step is the Hyperliquid flippening, and I’m here for it 🫡