Успех Aster: Цена токена подскочила на 38% после покупки Чанпэна Чжао на $2,5 млн Translation: Asters Success: Token Price Soars 38% Following Chanpeng Zhaos $2.5M Purchase

The value of the native token of the decentralized exchange Aster surged by 38% after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) revealed his ownership of the asset, totaling over $2.5 million.

He mentioned that he purchased ASTER using his own funds through Binance.

“I’m not a trader. I buy and hold,” he added.

According to CoinGecko, the token’s price jumped from $0.91 to $1.26. At the time of writing, the asset is trading at $1.07.

As reported by DeFi Llama, Aster’s daily trading volume escalated from approximately $220 million to over $2 billion. Its market capitalization rose from $1.8 billion to $2.18 billion.

Some traders have followed Zhao’s lead. For instance, a user under the alias Gold announced that he had taken a position in ASTER. He justified his decision by stating that the businessman was publicly announcing the purchase of a token other than BNB for the first time.

“CZ, the most influential figure in the crypto industry, has declared his personal acquisition of ASTER. That’s it. Don’t overthink it,” the trader wrote.

However, not all market participants are convinced that the rally will continue. According to Lookonchain, two major players have opened short positions on Aster.

One opened a short on 42.97 million tokens ($52.8 million) with a liquidation price of $2. The other increased their short position to 15.3 million ASTER ($19.1 million) with a liquidation point at $2.11.

Earlier, the venture firm YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) invested in the Astherus project. Aster emerged from the merger of Astherus and the APX Finance protocol at the end of 2024.

In September 2025, a representative of BNB Chain confirmed to Cointelegraph that the DEX had received support from the network and YZi Labs, but did not specify Zhao’s direct involvement.

Let us recall that in October, DeFi Llama removed trading volume data for Aster futures due to manipulation suspicions. Later, the platform restored the information but labeled the exchange as a “black box.”