🦙 Defillama’s Great Purge: Aster’s Perp Volumes Vanish in a Puff of Wash Trading Smoke! 🧼

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Ah, the theater of the absurd! Defillama, that vigilant guardian of the crypto cosmos, hath struck with the precision of a Gogolian bureaucrat, delisting Aster’s perpetual futures volumes. Why, you ask? Lo, the founder, 0xngmi, doth proclaim that Aster’s perp volumes began to mimic Binance’s “almost exactly,” a spectacle so uncanny it could only be the work of wash trading’s mischievous hand! 😈

In a post as dramatic as a Gogol novella, 0xngmi unveiled comparative charts for XRPUSDT volume on Aster and Binance, a near-1:1 ratio that would make even the most stoic accountant blush. Hyperliquid, meanwhile, stood apart, its decorrelated profile a beacon of virtue in this sea of suspicion. Yet, Aster, oh Aster, thou dost withhold the lower-level order data, the very key to verifying the genuineness of thy trades! Thus, Defillama, with a heavy heart and a firm hand, hath temporarily banished thee from its hallowed lists. 🧹

In a follow-up thread, 0xngmi, ever the defender of truth, addressed the howling mob of critics. “Nay,” he cried, “we are not paid to delist Aster, nor are we swayed by the whims of conspiracy theorists!” The timing, he explained, was but a coincidence, triggered by a sudden volume spike that set off alarms louder than a Gogolian nose. Defillama, it seems, hath a history of such purges, having delisted other perp DEXs for similar sins. Past attempts to delist quietly, alas, only bred more rumors, like mushrooms in a damp basement. And so, Aster must remain unlisted, lest its presence distort the sacred aggregate perp metrics and API data. Unless, of course, it mends its ways and provides the requisite data. 🕵️♂️

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2025-10-06 11:37