According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by HyperInsight, a certain Whale is shorting 15.3 million ASTER with 3x leverage, worth approximately 18.81 million USD, at an entry price of 1.162 USD, a liquidation price of 2.11 USD, and currently has unrealized losses of 980,000 USD.

Odaily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet (0xe30...d7a7) has withdrawn 5.3 million USDT from Aster in the past 15 hours, spending 3.2 million USDT to purchase 2.94 million ASTER at a unit price of 1.09 USD. The wallet currently still holds 2 million USDT.

BlockBeats news, on October 10th, according to HyperInsight monitoring, "Maji" has lost 30.09 million USD in the past 30 days, and the overall profit of the account has now decreased to 2.49 million USD. Currently holding long orders worth 129 million USD in ETH, 17.19 million USD in HYPE, 2.87 million USD in XPL, and 980,000 USD in AST.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Lookonchain, Whale 0xfE5A bought 1.69 million ASTER (3.16 million USD). He deposited 2.92 million USDT into Aster and withdrew 1.69 million ASTER (3.16 million USD).

Recently, monitoring data shows that users frequently withdraw and transfer large amounts of USDT and AST in a short period of time, indicating significant capital flow and possible investment behavior.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain Whale closed a Long Position on ASTER one hour ago, making a profit of 420,000 USD. After closing the Long Position on ASTER, the Whale began shorting ASTER.

Odaily News According to encryption analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN's monitoring, a Wallet that previously lost 35.84 million USD due to go long on ETH and another 7.5 million USD from shorting BTC, after closing the BTC short order early this morning, entered a position with 3x leverage to go long 2.79 million ASTER, with a position value of approximately 3.88 million USD, an entry price of 1.43 USD, and a liquidation price of 1.13 USD.

Golden Finance reported that the trading volume of the AST contract on Binance surpassed BTC in 24 hours.

Gate News bot news, according to the platform's latest announcement: Gate has launched TRADOOR/USDT and ASTER/USDT perpetual contract trading. Both trading pairs are settled in USDT. The newly launched perpetual contracts support 1-20x leverage trading, allowing users to go long or short. The contracts launched this time are in a real trading mode.

According to Gate News bot, on August 11, 2025, Gate officially announced that it has decided to delist the trading market for 23 tokens including GAMESTOP and KAP. The tokens involved in the delisting include GAMESTOP, KAP, YESP, AICODE, 0DOG, EARN, ANDY, ELU, RDF, BNBAI, INSN, BABYBONK, MEMEBRC, FNCY, FSN, AUTO, POGAI, LMR, OOKI, AST, ZKF, DOGI, and ANS. The corresponding USDT trading pairs will be removed. Gate has completed the token buyback for eligible users, and the buyback amount has been credited to the users' accounts. The platform will stop the deposit and trading services for these tokens, and the withdrawal service will also be closed soon.

According to Gate news from Cryptonews, the altcoin market is about to experience a turbulent week, as some significant events that will affect market price rises and falls are set to occur in the coming days. Several projects worth following this week include Mango Network (MGO), AirSwap (AST), Blast (BLAST), Injective (INJ), Across Protocol (ACX), Optimism (OP), Berachain (BERA), and Synthetix (SNX).

Odaily News CoinMarketCap has launched a project initiation platform called CMC Launch, aimed at providing exposure and user participation opportunities for high-quality encryption projects that have not yet issued tokens (Pre-TGE). It is reported that the first project to go live is the decentralized perpetual futures trading platform Aster ($AST). (Chainwire)

Golden Finance reported that the blockchain network Block octra has completed a $4 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Finality Capital, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Karatage, Presto, Builder Capital, etc. It is reported that Octra is an FHE Blockchain network that supports isolated execution environments, and most of the codebase is written in OCaml, AST, ReasonML, and C++.

BlockBeats news, on September 12th, according to official sources, the AirDAO StarFleet staking pool has reached 67 million AMB, equivalent to a TVL of 500,000 US dollars. There are only 4 days left until the staking pool closes. Users participating in the stake will enjoy Airdrops of AST, HBR, and KOS tokens, and will receive a 20% reward for 12 months starting from October 15th.