$ASTER Airdrop Delayed After Allocation Issues


Decentralized exchange #ASTER has pushed back its token distribution by six days after users complained about receiving far less than expected based on their trading activity.


Aster will now distribute tokens on Oct. 20 instead of the originally planned Oct. 14 date. The platform identified problems with how it calculated rewards for some users participating in Stage 2 of its #airdrop program.


The exchange assured participants that most users won't see their allocations decrease from what was initially shown in the checker tool. Final numbers will be updated over the next few days as the team fixes the calculation errors.


Problems surfaced almost immediately after Aster launched its S2 airdrop checker, which showed 153,932 wallets eligible for tokens. Users quickly took to social media, expressing frustration over unexpectedly small amounts despite significant platform usage.


One trader posted that despite generating $9 million in trading volume, they only qualified for 336 $ASTER tokens. Others noticed people with lower activity scores receiving larger allocations, raising questions about fairness.


The platform explained that it used several factors to determine distributions, including trading volume, how long users held assets, ownership of platform tokens like asBNB and USDF, actual profits or losses from trades, and referral contributions. All these points were then converted into token amounts.


Aster runs as a perpetual futures platform offering leverage up to 1,001x across Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum and BNB Chain. YZi Labs, the investment firm started by Binance co-founder #ChangpengZhao, backs the project.


The token traded at around $1.75 after the announcement, staying relatively stable even as broader markets dropped following President #Trump's new tariffs on Chinese imports. Last month alone, the platform processed $420 billion in #trading volume.

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October 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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