Astar $ASTR along with other assets in the cryptocurrency space, has tumbled down sharply to its ATL in this year. But while the market is slowly consolidating and start to returning its bull movement, ASTR has steady position on this current price zone, the same zone right before the bullish momentum last year. Meanwhile Astar social media is a bit silent after they announced their partnership with $LINK Chainlink CCIP, and surprisingly not to their Astar zkEVM (L2 ETH) but with their Astar Native (Astar L1 on Polkadot), something cooking off in the background.

Let's recap several things that happening on Astar Network :

  • 1Zero1Knowledge , a web3 event supported by Astar Network, was happening right on Istanbul, Turkiye. Currently Turkiye community is big thanks to Neurolaunche, a project built on top of Astar originally from Turkiye

  • Sota Watanabe, Astar founder and CEO of Startale, will be a speaker on the biggest Web3 event in Japan called WebX. He may also announced Sony chain that currently being build by Astar-Startale Team

  • Sonova, a new NFT marketplace on Astar zkEVM keep getting traction with many projects are launching with them.

  • Quickswap, keep getting the highest traffic on Astar zkEVM. Followed by VeryLongSwap and ArthSwap.

  • After market crash in early August, it attracts a lot of investor who put their ASTR into dApp Staking, as dynamic reward stakers currently sits on ~13.9% , dropped from ~14.6%, this may be the reason that ASTR didn't crashed to its 2023 ATL.

  • The second claiming of Yoki Origins was happening on early August, while the last one will be available on early September.

That's all for this month recap! Let's wait for (supposed to be) an announcement on WebX from Sota Watanabe!