Aster Airdrop Delayed Due to 'Data Inconsistencies' With Token Allocations

In short

Aster has delayed its airdrop from October 14 to October 20, because of “potential knowledge inconsistencies” resulting in miscalculated token allocations.
The announcement mentioned that “for many customers,” the brand new figures shouldn’t be decrease than what they’ve already been proven.
It comes simply hours after the airdrop checker went stay, which prompted a stream of customers to complain about their allocations.

Multi-chain decentralized alternate Aster has delayed its airdrop because of what it has recognized as “potential knowledge inconsistencies affecting sure customers’ ASTER allocation.”

It’s now concentrating on an October 20 date for the token drop to customers, lower than every week’s delay from its authentic October 14 date.

Aster’s announcement mentioned that “for many customers,” any up to date figures shouldn’t be decrease than what they’ve already been proven. Allocation numbers might be up to date within the coming days.

In the meantime, the ASTER token has climbed practically 3% on the day to $1.75, sitting simply shy of a $3 billion market capitalization, which makes it the 54th largest cryptocurrency based on CoinGecko.

Regardless of Friday’s upswing, which comes amid losses across much of the crypto market, predictors on Myriad Markets consider it’s 85% unlikely that Aster will hit $4 earlier than November. (Disclosure: Myriad Markets is developed by Decrypt’s mother or father firm, DASTAN.)

Based mostly on group suggestions, we recognized potential knowledge inconsistencies affecting sure customers’ $ASTER allocation. For many customers, allocations shouldn’t fall beneath the ultimate snapshot RH% in every epoch.

We’re reviewing this concern and can replace allocations the place wanted.…

— Aster (@Aster_DEX) October 10, 2025

Aster is a decentralized exchange specializing in perpetual futures with leverage as much as 1,001x, working on Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain. The undertaking is backed by YZi Labs, the crypto funding agency of Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who co-founded Binance.

The airdrop delay comes simply hours after the “S2 airdrop checker” went stay, for which Aster mentioned 153,932 wallets are certified for a token allocation. After posting the checker, Aster was flooded on social media with disillusioned clients claiming their allocation had been miscalculated.

“I hope this calculation is unsuitable, nearly $9 million quantity is just 336 tokens,” one X person said. “I consider it is unsuitable, I noticed individuals who made half of those factors with extra ASTER, and folks with the present share smaller than mine.”

“The airdrop quantity was calculated based mostly on a number of components from Stage 2 actions, together with your buying and selling quantity, holding period, Aster property (asBNB, USDF), realized P&L, and referral or staff contributions throughout completely different epochs. All eligible customers’ factors have been then proportionally transformed into their remaining airdrop allocation,” the Aster X account replied.

A matter of hours later, Aster confirmed that there had been inconsistencies with the calculation and delayed the airdrop, concentrating on the later date.