The ASTER token economy, a soft lock delayed until 2035

The ASTER token unlock schedule, I really examined it and found it interesting. The data is here: 60% will be unlocked directly in 2035, and there are still nine full years until then. This paper is played in a way that can be said to fully exploit the “time versus space” principle.
It is not expected to differ much from the old UNI path. Locking the main capital strongly even after nine years means that the future operational team will rely entirely on this massive reserve in 2035. This creates a very strange paradox: according to the natural approach of Web3, after nine years of operation, the ecosystem becomes mature, and the token should enter a contraction and rise phase; but for ASTER, the expected contraction era sharply turns into a massive sell pressure era.
Imagine the scene, it’s a kind of dark humor: these friends who lasted ten years, endured a long cycle, and finally wait until 2035, only to discover that what awaits them is not ecosystem returns, but continuous selling pressure from the team, and an increasingly decreasing price. Who can bear it?
But everything has two sides, this design has a big advantage at the moment: during the next nine years, the lock will be almost pressure-free.
Currently, more than 30% of the tokens have been unlocked, and during those long years, only a few points will be unlocked. This portion of tokens, if put on the market now, with some interest and funding, can be easily consumed and does not pose a real threat of market pressure.
And since it’s risk-free in the short term, the logic of the next nine years in pricing becomes very simple — it depends only on performance.
If the project performs excellently during these years, due to the limited circulating tokens, the rise will be as easy as drinking water, and everyone wins; but if the performance is poor? Although the selling pressure will be small due to the lack of a large unlock, the core is that the “time of death” has been postponed until 2035. This design grants the project a “temporary amnesty” for 9 years, leaving all potential liquidity crises for the future.
In short, the ASTER token model is a very clever design similar to “bad guys”: in the short term, don’t worry about selling pressure, but ultimately it will pressure. For investors, the coming years are a good opportunity without upper selling pressure constraints; but if we talk about long-term faith, the Democles sword hanging over 2035 will eventually fall. $ASTER #h