Aster Airdrop 2026: Stage 6 Claim, Aster Points and What Pays Now

The current Aster airdrop is Stage 6: 64,000,000 ASTER (0.8% of supply) for users who earned at least 10,000 points during Stage 6 (February 2 – March 29, 2026). The 100% vested claim opens on November 4, 2026, 12:00 UTC, on asterdex.com/en/airdrop and closes on December 4, 2026. No newer airdrop is announced: Aster said Stage 6 is the last stage paid out for trading activity, and its follow-up points dashboard, Stardust, has shown “Paused on 2026/8/30” since. Below: the claim steps, how to spot fake airdrop sites, every stage with dates and allocations, and what still pays today.

1. Aster Stage 6 claim checklist: November 4, 2026, 12:00 UTC

The Stage 6 claim runs on Aster’s own website, not on a separate claim site. On October 14, 2026 the airdrop page was unchanged: 64,000,000 ASTER in total, the 100% vested claim window November 4 – December 4, 2026 (12:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC), 63,379,391.84 ASTER locked until November 4. The checklist below follows the airdrop page and Aster’s claim guide in the docs:

1. Open the official page yourself. Type www.asterdex.com/en/airdrop into the address bar, or open asterdex.com and choose Rewards → Airdrop. Do not use links from replies, direct messages or ads.
2. Connect the wallet you used in Stage 6. Logged out, the page only shows “Please log in first”. Your allocation is tied to the account that earned the points.
3. Check your allocation and your option. The option was chosen in the April 20 – May 2, 2026 window and is final. If you picked 100% vested, your claim window is November 4 – December 4, 2026, 12:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC. If you picked 50% immediately, your window was May 4 – June 4, 2026 and the other half was forfeited.
4. Click Claim and confirm. Aster’s docs say an airdrop claim needs no “approve” transaction and, for the TGE, no gas. If a page asks you to approve token spending or sign a “permit”, stop: that is how drainers work.
5. Find your ASTER. The airdrop FAQ says: “After a successful claim, your ASTER balance will appear in App → Spot → Assets on Aster.” What you can do next is in section 6.

Put the date in your calendar: November 4, 2026, 12:00 UTC is 21:00 in Tokyo, 12:00 in London and 07:00 in New York (Europe and the US are back on winter time by then). The page does not say what happens to Stage 6 tokens left unclaimed after December 4, 2026; at the TGE, unclaimed tokens went back to community rewards after 30 days. Don’t find out.

Update scheduled: we will re-open the airdrop page when the window opens on November 4 and update this checklist with what the claim screen actually shows.

2. Fake Aster airdrop sites: how to stay safe

3. Status of every Aster rewards program today

Aster’s Rewards menu lists seven items. Here is what each one does, checked logged out (dates in brackets are when we last read each one):

Sources: asterdex.com airdrop and Stardust pages and @Aster_DEX posts (October 14, 2026); Rocket Launch page (September 27, 2026); Trade & Earn, staking and docs.asterdex.com (September 25, 2026).

4. Every Aster airdrop stage: dates and allocations

Aster names its points seasons “stages”. The dates below come from Aster’s docs and from the epoch data its stage pages load (each epoch runs Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC); the allocations come from the docs and @Aster_DEX announcements. Percentages are of the 8,000,000,000 ASTER supply.

Sources: docs.asterdex.com (TGE, Stage 0, 1 and 2 pages), Aster’s public stage-epoch endpoints (Stages 3–6 and Stardust) and @Aster_DEX posts of October 14 and November 10, 2025, December 17, 2025, January 14, 28 and 30 and March 2, 2026; all read September 27, 2026. Token amounts in brackets are our arithmetic.

Three patterns stand out. Each stage paid less: 4%, 2.5%, 1.5%, 1.2%, then 0.8%; with the TGE that is 18.8% of supply against an airdrop allocation of 53.5% (our sum; Aster publishes no running total). Locks became the norm: from Stage 4 on, taking tokens early cost half of them, and almost nobody did it: 98.74% of Stage 4 stayed locked and about 99% of Stage 6. The trading-points era is over: on January 30, 2026 Aster called Stage 6 “the last stage to allocate emission based on trading activity”, with future emissions moving to staking.

5. The TGE and the Stage 6 airdrop in detail

The TGE airdrop (September 2025)

Aster’s TGE docs put 704,000,000 ASTER, 8.8% of supply, claimable September 17 – October 17, 2025. Eligible were users who earned Rh or Au points in Stage 0 and 1 (above a minimum), recipients of Aster Gems from community and partner campaigns, and Aster Pro traders who earned loyalty rewards after Stage 1. Tokens were credited to the Aster Spot account with “no gas fees or wallet authorization”, and unclaimed tokens went back to community rewards.

The tokenomics page sets the airdrop allocation at 53.5% of supply (4.28B ASTER), released gradually and subject to governance. That reserve is not a promise of another airdrop, and Aster’s own roadmap now points emissions at stakers.

Stage 6 “Convergence” (claims in 2026)

The airdrop page on October 14, 2026 read: “We’re distributing 64,000,000 $ASTER tokens to community members who participated in the Stage 6.” Its FAQ adds that the pool is 0.8% of supply for participants who reached at least 10,000 points, with two options:

The page also shows two totals: 310,304.08 ASTER burned and 63,379,391.84 ASTER locked until November 4. They add up exactly: locked + 2 × burned = 64,000,000. So users who took option 1 claimed 310,304 ASTER and burned the same amount, which means about 99% of the Stage 6 allocation chose to wait (our arithmetic). At the CoinGecko price of $0.70 on October 14, 2026 the whole pool is worth about $45M; what it will be worth on November 4 nobody knows. It also means roughly 63.38M ASTER can reach the market from that day, which is worth knowing whether you claim or not.

One more thing changed before the claim. On October 14, 2026 Aster said it would spend the remaining ~1,400,000 USDT in its Stage 6 Strategic Buyback Reserve on ASTER buybacks over 14 days from October 15, 2026, about 100,000 USDT a day, on top of the regular buybacks funded by platform fees (@Aster_DEX). That programme ends before the November 4 unlock.

6. After you claim: stake, sell or withdraw

Claimed ASTER sits in your Aster Spot account. You have four options, and none of them is urgent:

• Stake it. ASTER staked and locked on Aster Chain earns a weekly base pool plus loyalty rewards funded by fee buybacks (99% of platform fees buy ASTER for stakers). Longer locks earn more, and early exit costs a penalty. This is where Aster says future emissions go. See the Aster staking guide.
• Sell it on Aster Spot. The ASTERUSDT spot market charges 0.04% taker and 0.005% maker, and paying spot fees in ASTER takes 5% off. A limit order avoids selling into a thin book on claim day.
• Use it as margin. In Multi-Asset Mode ASTER counts at 80% of its value for perp margin. Remember that a falling ASTER price then shrinks your margin.
• Withdraw it. Send ASTER to your own wallet, paying the network fee. The Aster deposit and withdrawal guide shows the chains and fees.

Record the date, amount and price when you claim: in many countries an airdrop is taxable income at receipt and a later sale is a separate event. Our DEX tax reporting guide covers the records to keep.

7. How Aster points worked

Stages 5 and 6 used an identical formula, and Stages 3 and 4 were close to it. It is the best description of what Aster rewarded:

Final Points = (Trading points + Position points + Aster Asset points + Liquidation points + Profit and Loss points) × Team boost + Referral points

• Trading points (updated hourly): “based on your trading fee contribution, liquidity (maker order) contribution and symbol boost factor”. Selected spot and perp symbols carried a boost. Maker orders count even though they pay 0%.
• Position points (perps only, T+1): “The larger size and longer time you hold a position, the more points you earn.” Stage 4’s FAQ warned that long-term hedged positions opened to farm points would be adjusted.
• Aster Asset points (perps only, T+1): for using ASTER, asBNB or USDF as margin, based on cross-margin size and the share of Aster assets in the portfolio.
• Liquidation points: proportional to liquidation fees you generated. Getting liquidated earns points, but the loss dwarfs them.
• Profit and Loss points (hourly): from hourly net PnL excluding funding. Aster warned against opening and closing offsetting positions around the hourly cut-off.

“Specific weightings and formulas remain undisclosed”, and “adjustments may be applied to farmed points”. The Stage 3 and 4 FAQs put it plainly: points shown “may not reflect final allocation”. Stage 2 counted only perps (not 1001x or spot); from Stage 3 spot counted too, and the Stage 3 and 4 FAQs still excluded 1001x.

8. Stardust: the paused points dashboard

Click Points in the Rewards menu today and you land on Stardust (asterdex.com/en/stage-stardust). Aster’s stage data lists it as stage 7, with 22 weekly epochs covering March 30 – August 30, 2026. The page shows “Paused on 2026/8/30” and one FAQ entry: “Stardust is a points tracking dashboard designed for Aster’s loyal traders. It records key trading activities and accumulates points over time. The program is ongoing with no scheduled end date.” The docs have no Stardust page and no formula, and no airdrop is announced for it.

Read literally: points were tracked for five months after Stage 6 and the tracking stopped on August 30, 2026. That does not make past Stardust points worthless, and it does not mean they will convert to tokens, especially after Aster said trading-based emissions ended with Stage 6. We will update this page when Aster publishes rules.

9. What pays right now

USD1 RWA Boost: Phase I ($WLFI and USD1)

The most active campaign pays $WLFI and USD1 for trading 12 USD1-quoted real-world-asset perps: SPCXUSD1, CLUSD1, XAUUSD1, SNDKUSD1, SKHYNIXUSD1, MUUSD1, GPROUSD1, BNCUSD1, POLYMARKETUSD1, MOONSHOTUSD1, OURAUSD1 and METAUSD1. To earn, keep your perp account’s USD1 balance ratio above 50% in Multi-Asset Mode, or use USD1 as collateral in Single-Asset Mode. Points update daily around 04:00 UTC. Phase I runs August 31 – December 31, 2026 with 125,000,000 $WLFI and 6,250,000 USD1 split equally across 18 epochs (pinned @Aster_DEX post, re-read October 14). Unlike the old stages, the formula is published:

Trading Points = Σ [Taker Volume(pair) × Multiplier(pair)], where Multiplier = 0.1 + 0.9 × min(1, 5 × R)² and R = 24h average OI ÷ 24h taker volume, per pair, per UTC day. OI points come from your open position size, snapshotted every 5 minutes; positions with single-asset USD1 collateral earn 2× OI points.

What the formula means in practice. If you trade $100,000 of taker volume on XAUUSD1 in a day while holding an average position of $20,000, R = 0.2, 5 × R = 1, and the multiplier is the full 1.0. If you churn the same $100,000 in and out without holding anything, R ≈ 0 and the multiplier falls to 0.1: churned volume earns a tenth of the points. Holding $10,000 (R = 0.1) gives 0.1 + 0.9 × 0.25 = 0.325. The campaign pays for open interest, not for wash volume. The fee side: RWA taker fees are 1.25 bps, so $100,000 of taker volume costs $12.50.

Rocket Launch (ASTER for volume on one pair)

Each Rocket Launch pays a fixed pool for trading a newly listed token. The page has two tabs: “Trade Arena” campaigns share the pool by trading volume, “Rocket Launch” campaigns by trading fees. The last one, VERONAUSDT (Trade Arena), paid “$30,000 in $ASTER + Bonus in $VERONA” from September 21 12:00 to September 26 14:00 UTC; on September 27 neither tab listed anything ongoing or upcoming (30 and 9 ended). VERONA’s rules: Individual Reward = Total Reward Pool × (Individual Trading Volume ÷ Total Trading Volume of all eligible participants), capped at 3% of the pool per person, market makers excluded. See section 12 for the break-even.

Grid Liquidity Mining (ASTER for grid orders)

Run a perpetual grid on an eligible pair and share a pool of up to 140,000 ASTER (10,000 ASTER base per week, September 28 – October 25, 2026). The launch pairs were POLYMARKET/USD1, META/USD1 and OURA/USD1, and Aster adds or swaps pairs weekly. From October 14, 08:00 UTC, 70% of rewards go to eligible open grid orders kept close to the mark price (larger, closer and longer-resting orders score higher, even without a fill) and 30% to your share of eligible maker volume; taker fills no longer count. Rewards are calculated hourly and claimable on the campaign page with a 24-hour delay. This is the one Aster campaign that pays for resting liquidity rather than for taker volume, so the fee side can be close to zero; the risk side is the grid itself, which keeps buying into a falling market.

Trade & Earn (USDF yield on your collateral)

Hold USDF or asBNB as perp margin and they keep earning. USDF (Aster’s stablecoin, 1:1 with USDT, 99.99% collateral value) pays deposit rewards hourly on balances above 1 USDF, and trading rewards if you are active at least two days a week with at least $50,000 of weekly volume, counted on up to 100,000 USDF. asBNB (95% collateral value) passes through BNB launchpool and airdrop rewards. Rewards are paid weekly in USDF (docs, September 25, 2026). The Aster staking and Earn guide covers the products.

ASTER staking

Staking ASTER on Aster Chain pays a weekly base pool (150,000 ASTER) and a loyalty pool (300,000 ASTER plus all ASTER bought back with 99% of platform fees). Your trading volume in the epoch boosts your loyalty weight: 1.05× above $500k, 1.15× above $50M, 1.25× above $200M. On September 25 the staking page showed loyalty APYs from 4% (26-week lock) to 32.04% (208-week lock). This is the closest thing to a standing “trade to earn” program Aster has today, but it requires locking tokens with an early-exit penalty of up to 60%.

10. Referral points and team boosts

In Stage 6 the invite code did two jobs. Referral points: you earned a share of your invitees’ base points and of their invitees’ (two levels; first level earns more), updated daily. Team boost: every referral family formed a team of up to four tiers (the person who invited you, the other people they invited, you, and the people you invited) and got a multiplier from its combined hourly points:

Boosts accumulated through the whole stage and took effect within a few hours of joining. Separately from points, Aster’s fee referral program pays the referrer 10% of the referee’s trading fees by default for 365 days (the referrer can share part of it; with our code DTLpLc, 5% of your fees comes back to you). Our Aster referral code page shows exactly what our link does.

11. Sybil and wash-trading rules

Every Aster program carries the same restrictions, and they are the main reason farmers get less than they expect:

• One entry per user. Stage 6: “The points are limited to only one entry per user; bulk registered accounts will not be eligible for rewards.”
• Wash trading and manipulation. Aster “reserves the right to disqualify trades that are deemed to be wash trades, displaying attributes of market manipulation, bulk-account registrations to farm additional bonuses, or any other attempts at fraud.” The USD1 RWA Boost adds “trading between related accounts, master and sub-accounts, or accounts that repeatedly trade against each other”.
• Hidden adjustments. Farmed points are adjusted, and hedged positions opened to farm position points were singled out. Self-trades and zero-fee volume are also excluded from referral commission.
• Market makers excluded. Accounts in Aster’s dedicated MM program could not earn points, and Rocket Launch excludes market makers.
• Rules can change. “For each epoch, Aster may adjust the rules according to user feedback and market conditions.”

Two wallets opened to trade against each other are exactly what these rules target, and on-chain analysis makes the links easy to see. Our wash trading checks explains how venues detect it.

12. Honest cost math

Points guides love a “cost per point” number. For Aster it cannot be computed: Aster never published the category weights, the total points issued, or how “farmed” points were adjusted. What you can compute is the cost side, and for fixed-pool campaigns the break-even.

Rocket Launch break-even. Reward per dollar of volume is the pool divided by all eligible volume. At 0.04% taker, a $30,000 pool covers your fees only if total eligible volume stays below $75M. Above that, every taker participant loses money on fees on average, before slippage and the price risk of a new listing. Maker volume at 0% changes the math in your favour, if your orders fill.

Stage 6 in hindsight. The pool was 64M ASTER for everyone above 10,000 points. Your cut depended on your share of all points, which Aster never disclosed. Add funding payments, slippage and liquidation risk to any farming plan, and remember that liquidation “points” come with a real loss.

13. Aster farming strategy that does not lose money by design

No points stage is running, so “farming” now means positioning for whatever Aster pays next while earning what is live. The rules that held across every stage:

1. Only trade what you would trade anyway. Points are a rebate on activity, not a business. If a trade makes no sense without points, skip it.
2. Use limit orders. Maker fills cost 0% and counted toward the liquidity part of trading points in Stages 3 to 6. The Aster order types guide shows Post Only and Chase orders.
3. Hold, don’t churn. Position points and the USD1 RWA Boost multiplier both reward open interest relative to volume. A modest position held for days beats the same volume churned in minutes.
4. Post Aster assets as margin. USDF and asBNB earn yield through Trade & Earn and counted as Aster asset points. Mind the collateral ratios (USDF 99.99%, asBNB 95%, ASTER 80%).
5. Consider staking over farming. Aster says future emissions are staking-based; locking ASTER is a price bet, so size it accordingly.
6. Keep leverage low. Liquidation points existed, but the liquidation loss is far larger than any points it earned; the leverage guide explains Aster’s brackets.
7. One account, one code, bound at sign-up. Join with our link (code DTLpLc) or a friend’s, then leave it.

14. Aster vs Hyperliquid vs Lighter

To compare the tokens behind these programs, see HYPE vs ASTER vs LIT: market cap, unlocks, buybacks and staking side by side. Aster also runs short prize campaigns (Rocket Launch on newly listed perps), usually split by share of trading volume with a per-trader cap.

If you want a venue for the trading itself rather than a speculative token, Hyperliquid has the deepest on-chain books and code HOLYGRAIL takes 4% off your fees on the first $25M of volume (why there is no Hyperliquid airdrop 2). Lighter’s current status is in our Lighter points guide, and every perp DEX points program that is live right now is ranked in our perp DEX airdrops guide. For choosing a venue, see the best DEX guide; new to this, start with what a DEX is.

15. FAQ

Disclosure: DTLpLc and HOLYGRAIL are our referral codes; we earn a share of fees paid by referred accounts. Airdrop, stage and campaign data were read on Aster’s website, its public stage data, docs.asterdex.com and @Aster_DEX on October 14, 2026; Trade & Earn, staking and team-boost details on September 25, 2026. Campaigns change often and Aster may amend or cancel them at any time. Airdrops are never guaranteed. Not financial advice.