Haha this is literally the same as Synapse's bridge volume wash trading controversy like 1 year+ ago. GGs to Defillama for keeping it honest.

We've been investigating aster volumes and recently their volumes have started mirroring binance perp volumes almost exactly
Chart on the left is XRPUSDT on aster, you can see the volume ratio vs binance is ~1
Chart on the right is XRP perp volume on hyperliquid, where there's

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