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OpenGov

yay.oi·July 7, 2025

Saving Neemo

After an isolated exploit of Neemo Finance placed its dApp Staking funds at risk, Astar dApp Staking has been placed into maintenance mode. Astar Referendum 27 proposes that the Astar Treasury withdraw and take custody of ~26.78M ASTR unlocked from Neemo’s dApp staking wallet and take ownership of the Neemo dApp. After the execution of this safeguarding solution, which was requested by Neemo Finance, maintenance mode will be disabled and dApp Staking operations will resume.

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Parachain Rollup

yay.oi·July 1, 2025

Who’s the Next Astar dAppStar?

Astar dApp Staking Period 5 is open for voting until Monday July 7th. Stake ASTR with your favorite project now to support their growth and earn some staking and bonus rewards for yourself.

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NFT

yay.oi·June 25, 2025

Time’s Ticking to Claim Your Stake

Astar Degens dApp stakers, you now have until June 26th to claim your Season 3 ASTR staking rewards before they're sent to the DAO treasury.

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Parachain

yay.oi·June 19, 2025

A-sync A-shooting A-star

Astar has now deployed Async-backing, offering faster block confirmations and higher transaction throughput by reducing block times to six seconds.

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Parachain

yay.oi·June 19, 2025

So You Wanna Be an Astar dAppStar?

The Astar dApp Staking program is now accepting applications from the broader ecosystem. To be eligible, candidates should demonstrate their value to Astar through meaningful ASTR token integration and promotional efforts.

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Wallet

yay.oi·June 2, 2025

Embedding the Substrate

No longer just for EVM, Apillon embedded wallets now support Substrate based chains. This easy onboarding feature allows new users to avoid confusing mnemonics by setting up their wallet with a passkey sent to their email.

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Parachain

yay.oi·May 12, 2025

ASTR is Re-born, Again.

Astar has published its initial proposal for ASTR Tokenomics 3.0, projected to execute in mid-2026. It proposes the phasing out of inflationary emissions, capping the supply at 10.5B ASTR. In addition, 50% of network fees would be burned. To promote Astar’s financial independence, and autonomously fund Coretime slots, 20% of network fees would be redirected to the treasury.

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DeFi

yay.oi·February 10, 2025

Mints are Even vASTR than Before

Minting of Astar’s vASTR liquid staking token on Bifrost has continued to surge, now surpassing 100M.

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DeFi

yay.oi·January 20, 2025

Minting Increases vASTRy

Minting of vASTR has continued its notable gains in January, this time surpassing the 80M milestone.

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DeFi

yay.oi·January 7, 2025

vASTRonomical!

Minting of the vASTR liquid staking token on Bifrost has surged past the sizable milestone of 51 million.

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NFT

yay.oi·December 29, 2024

Bluez Newz Got You Feeling Blue

Bluez, the community driven NFT marketplace for Astar Network, has announced plans to sunset in January due to low user activity and high operational expenses.

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Parachain

yay.oi·October 17, 2024

Hey Now, You're a dAppAstar

Astar dApp stakers, don't forget to stake during next Voting Period starting on Saturday October 19th to qualify for bonus rewards.

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DeFi

yay.oi·October 10, 2024

SUBstantial APRs on Stellaswap

Week 5 of the Stellaswap DOT Incentives campaign sees a DOT boost added to the ASTR-DOT, CFG-DOT, PHA-DOT, and SUB-DOT pools. Nothing in the campaign so far has come close to the astronomical APRs of the SUB-DOT pool which initially peaked at 6800%!

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Parachain

yay.oi·September 27, 2024

Substantial SubWallet Improvements

Check out the latest updates for SubWallet browser extension 1.2.29 & mobile app v1.1.80 (432). New swap pairs: DOTMYTH, WUDDOT, WUDHDX, vDOTvASTR, PHADOT. New tokens: vASTR, CPcoin, and MILL. New XCM channels for MYTH token: HydrationMythos, and Asset HubMythos XCM Transfers on Ledger Polkadot app.

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Parachain

yay.oi·September 15, 2024

Sota's Astarnomical Ambition

Polkadot Decoded Asia Monday 16 September 10:30 GMT+8 Conrad Singapore Orchard Sota Watanabe (Astar) presents an ambitious plan in his keynote Mass Adoption of Astar: Vision to Onboard Billion Users Onchain.

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DeFi

yay.oi·September 13, 2024

A vASTronomical Milestone

Mints of vASTR on Bifrost have soared past the 35M milestone.

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OpenGov

yay.oi·September 3, 2024

They Call Him the Spazcoinector

Spazcoin's mission to connect the parachains through governance continues. This week on Astar he initiated a Townhall proposal to open XCM channels with 10 parachains. Meanwhile, on Moonbeam governance he proposed XCM channels with 5 parachains.

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DeFi

yay.oi·August 21, 2024

vASTR is Bifrosted

The vASTR pool on Hydration is now incentivized with BNC, offering up to 4% APR of additional yields.

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NFT

yay.oi·August 15, 2024

A Token of Apereciation

Start dApp staking now with the Astar Degens DAO to earn a 20% bonus.

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DeFi

yay.oi·July 31, 2024

vASTR is vHydrated

vASTR joins vDOT to become the second tradable liquid staking token in the Hydration Omnipool.

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Parachain

yay.oi·July 2, 2024

Burn Baby Burn

The Astar community has voted in favor of burning 350M ASTR tokens, which were originally reserved for crowdloan rewards.

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OpenGov

yay.oi·June 4, 2024

AStar is Burn

With the imminent shift from parachain auctions to Coretime sales on Polkadot, Astar has opened a discussion with the community about what should be done with the 5% supply of ASTR reserved at token genesis for future parachain auction rewards. They propose that the 350M (~USD38M) allocation be burned to increase token value and enhance staker rewards. The proposal is open for discussion on the Astar forum before going to a vote in three weeks.

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Parachain

Dodow·May 14, 2024

Phat Developments

Phala's Phat contracts get deployed on Astar WASM smart contracts in a lottery app.

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