Aster updates token economics: abolishes monthly linear unlocking, replacing it with staking-only emissions.

Mars Finance reports that Aster has announced an update to its token economics and a restructuring of its ecosystem emissions, replacing the previous monthly linear unlocking mechanism with a staking-only emissions model. Previously, 78.4 million ASTER tokens (approximately 1% of the maximum supply) were unlocked monthly on a linear schedule; after the update, ecosystem tokens are released solely as staking rewards, currently at a rate of 450,000 ASTER per cycle (week), equivalent to a monthly release of 1.8 million to 2.25 million ASTER. Aster stated that since TGE on September 17, 2025, all unlocked ecosystem and community tokens, except for staking rewards, have remained untouched, and their holdings can be publicly verified through addresses starting with 0x0A55.