Overview
- Aster, which disclosed the overhaul Monday, scrapped monthly unlocks in favor of weekly staking rewards of about 450,000 ASTER per epoch, cutting monthly issuance to roughly 1.8–2.25 million from 78.4 million.
- The platform will route up to 80% of daily fees into market buybacks to remove tokens from circulation.
- Stakers now earn base rewards plus loyalty bonuses that increase with longer lockups and more trading activity on the platform.
- The project maintains an 8 billion token cap and says 704 million were airdropped at launch, with a public address to verify that post-TGE unlocks have not moved outside staking payouts.
- The update follows the launch of Aster’s zero-knowledge Layer 1 for high-speed trading, a setup meant to align supply with active use and ease sell pressure.