If a BNB ecosystem DEX project can't reach $100 per coin, it would truly be a regret in the crypto world. Most projects fall and then become silent, but ASTER has chosen a different path - when the price pulls back, it launched a trading competition with a prize of 12 million, a rare move that creates value for holders in the current market.

Regarding the doubts about "developed by locals and VC manipulation", to be honest, these two points are not the core issues of the project. What we really need to pay attention to is the token allocation and long-term incentives. A total supply of 8 billion sounds like a lot, but there is a key point here—almost all of the subsequently unlocked tokens flow to holder airdrops and user incentives. The degree of decentralization is sufficient, making it difficult for short-term selling pressure to form risks, which is much more transparent than those projects that tightly hold the tokens in the team's hands and can crash the market at any time.

Some people compare it to a certain traffic project, saying it's not worth mentioning. But looking at it from another angle: that project is just backed by video sales and media hype, and the subsequent unlocks are all funds pools or team rewards, where developers profit while community holders gain little. ASTER, on the other hand—frequent airdrops, trading incentives, and user rewards—actually distributes profits to the community. Such "altruistic" design is criticized, but has it become the original sin?

Let's take a look at the token economics. Regular buybacks every month, with 50% of the repurchased tokens being directly burned—this is a standard deflationary model. The logic of long-term holding emerges: as the circulating supply decreases, the relative scarcity of the coins in your possession increases. UNI can vote to burn 100 million tokens; why can't ASTER's burn plan work? Even if ETH is infinitely inflationary, its ecological value still stands at the top of the crypto world. The issue has never been with the total supply numbers, but whether it can continuously create applications and value inflow.