According to the source, decentralized perpetuals exchange Aster delayed its airdrop due to issues around token allocations following user complaints. Given the delay reported by the source, traders should monitor official updates for revised allocation details and a new claim timeline before planning airdrop-related strategies.

According to the source, DefiLlama will delist Aster's perpetual futures volume data due to integrity concerns, citing that Aster's trading volumes are almost perfectly correlated with Binance. According to the source, this delisting specifically targets Aster's perpetual volume figures displayed on DefiLlama.

According to @lookonchain, three whale addresses executed large $ASTER transactions on Aster over the past 13 hours, signaling accumulation (source: @lookonchain on X). Address 0x04EA withdrew 7.04M ASTER (~$4.66M) 13 hours ago (source: @lookonchain on X; Arkham: intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x04EAc11EC0275b64ab4442F4c7FF4F3E6366Cdd8). Address 0xe1Da withdrew 5.1M ASTER (~$4.1M) 10 hours ago (source: @lookonchain on X; Arkham: intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xe1Da4F798787E971B4458129F489DF4Ce5856c44). Address 0x841D deposited 2.22M APX (~$2.22M) into Aster 2 hours ago, then withdrew 2.22M ASTER (~$2.11M) (source: @lookonchain on X; Arkham: intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x841D4DaE1fB04719536BDb39Bd2143d017722794). In total, the cited flows amount to 14.36M ASTER (~$10.87M) withdrawn from Aster in this window, which @lookonchain characterizes as whale accumulation of ASTER (source: @lookonchain on X).

According to @ai_9684xtpa, the ASTER KOL round is being run by BF and BF’s boss known as Gou Ge is an on-chain top-3 individual holder of APX, source: https://twitter.com/ai_9684xtpa/status/1968919512834834890. The author reports Gou Ge said three years ago he lost 660,000 USD worth of APX to theft, which the author notes would be valued around 6 to 7 million USD today, source: https://twitter.com/ai_9684xtpa/status/1968919512834834890. The author identifies address 0xd7Fb6921a3a40E80aa9Dd7AF2AeE94819913317B as likely belonging to him, with the address details viewable on Arkham, sources: https://twitter.com/ai_9684xtpa/status/1968919512834834890 and https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xd7Fb6921a3a40E80aa9Dd7AF2AeE94819913317B. Before yesterday, the address reportedly held 8.057 million APX and ranked among top-3 individual holders, and within the past 24 hours 6.057 million APX was deposited into Aster to swap tokens, sources: https://twitter.com/ai_9684xtpa/status/1968919512834834890 and https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xd7Fb6921a3a40E80aa9Dd7AF2AeE94819913317B. Traders tracking flow can monitor the address activity and Aster deposits via the Arkham explorer link and the author’s X thread for ongoing context, sources: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xd7Fb6921a3a40E80aa9Dd7AF2AeE94819913317B and https://twitter.com/ai_9684xtpa/status/1968919512834834890.