It looks like $ASTER is about to collapse.

The data from Stage 4 is ridiculously revealing—90% of the trading volume appears to be wash trading. The project team keeps talking about buybacks, but in reality? The income from fees has long been insufficient, so they have no choice but to dump tokens for cash. What’s even more surreal is that the money from selling tokens has to be shared with those shady KOLs, so they can keep pumping out brainwashing articles like “All-in, guaranteed to moon.”

The token price is crashing, yet those promo articles are everywhere—think about the logic and you’ll get it.

So what’s the current situation? All the so-called positive news has been priced in, but instead, the token price just keeps sliding. To make matters worse, the overall market isn’t helping, expectations of rate hikes in Japan are getting stronger, and there’s another 200 million token airdrop coming to the market on the 15th.

There are only 7 days left until that day.

Even if some top influencer keeps calling for buys, it’s useless—the boy who cried wolf can’t fool anyone anymore. With this round of moves, we might just be witnessing history.