$ASTER was swept by a giant whale, and the token unlock turned into a slaughterhouse. Today, the most unfortunate in the crypto market is ASTER, which plummeted 9.01% in a single day, becoming the leader in the decline chart. The reason is simple: 78.41 million ASTER tokens were unlocked today, worth 75.4 million USD, accounting for 0.98% of the total supply and 3.41% of the market cap. As a result, the whale directly dumped 2.97 million to 3 million tokens, cashing out over 2 million USD. The data is even more brutal, with large holders reducing their positions by 4.05%. One whale directly lost 667,000 USD and cut their losses to exit the market. Derivative traders are smarter, directly reducing their exposure by 34.42% to become net shorts. The smart money has already fled, leaving retail investors to catch falling knives. The 24-hour trading volume is 370 million USD, all due to panic selling. This is the truth of token unlocking. Once the lock-up period promised by the project party and early investors is over, they immediately start dumping to reap profits. All the talk about ecological development and long-termism is nonsense. The day of unlocking is a slaughterhouse. ASTER is not an exception; major projects like ARB and ZRO are also unlocking recently, following the same playbook. Do not touch these coins that are about to unlock; you'll just become a bag holder.