Early Claims Live as 754,041 ASTER Burns

• 754,041 ASTER has been moved from the Airdrop Reserve to the Aster DEX Treasury contract.
• An exact number of tokens has been permanently destroyed to take them out of circulation.
• Approximately 118.5 million ASTER are locked and cannot be claimed until April 28, 2026.

Aster, a decentralized trading platform backed by a major DeFi ecosystem, has officially started its early token claim event (Stage 4 airdrop). As of January 28, users who opt to claim half their tokens early can collect their portion of the $ASTER airdrop.

According to Aster, 754,041 ASTER (roughly 0.63% of total airdrop tokens) has been transferred from the Airdrop Reserve to the Aster DEX Treasury contract in preparation for claims. The exact same number of tokens has been permanently destroyed to remove them from circulation, which could help the token’s value.

Also, approximately 118.5 million ASTER (98.74%) of the Stage 4 allocation are locked and cannot be claimed until April 28, 2026.

This early claim option lets users decide whether to take a smaller amount of tokens now or wait to receive all the tokens later.

Stage 4 Specifics

Aster’s token distribution is part of a long-running reward system for active platform users, not just a free giveaway. The fourth phase makes up 1.5% of all ASTER tokens. 

This two-part claim system lets users get some tokens now, but the rest they don’t claim right away are burned forever. The goal is to prevent a big price drop after the airdrop and to encourage users to stick with the platform longer.

Aster’s total supply is fixed at 8 billion tokens, and more than half of them are set aside to be given out to the community through rewards and airdrops over many months.

Aster’s Airdrop History

Since its token generation event (TGE) in September 2025, Aster has been rolling out multi-stage airdrops tied to how much people use the platform (through trading and earning points) rather than simple snapshot payouts. Such a strategy is meant to get people more involved and spread tokens out fairly.

Prior stages (Stage 2 and Stage 3) handed out a sizable amount of tokens and used systems like rewarding users for trading and taking snapshots of user activity.

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