From 2026-07-13 00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00 UTC, 99% of daily platform fees were used to buy back 2,213,513.91 $ASTER for stakers.
A matching 2,213,513.91 $ASTER has been burned from the team allocation.
Cumulative burn under the upgraded tokenomics since 2026-06-17: 8,234,455.13 ASTER Cumulative burn across all programs: 186,015,456.70 $ASTER Estimated total staking APY as of 2026-07-27: 5.04% with a 26-week lock and 26.38% with the maximum 208-week lock. Variable.
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Today we are launching the Bitcoin Security Consortium, backed by $15 million in commitments to support the developers and researchers strengthening Bitcoin for the decades ahead.
Yesterday @Injective introduced Injective Mint, a unified platform for issuing institutional-grade tokenized assets through a single interface with regulatory rails built in. For the first time, users, institutions and AI agents can launch compliant onchain assets at scale on Injective. Already, Injective has settled more than $6.8 billion in RWA volume while becoming one of the largest blockchains for tokenized assets, with more than $1.1 billion in native asset issuance. As Injective continues building regulated infrastructure, including its filing to become a registered transfer agent with the SEC, Injective Mint builds on that foundation to accelerate tokenization and expand the next generation of internet capital markets. From equities, bonds, ETFs, international securities and FX to more complex financial products, issuers can launch assets with built in compliance controls, permissions and regulatory rails designed for institutional adoption. Injective Mint enters private alpha today, with many more major releases, integrations and capabilities to follow powered by $INJ Here is a closer look about the Mintđ The current RWA market cannot scale. Right now, every issuer must piece together smart contracts, compliance, custody, permissions and liquidity before an asset can move onchain. Injective Mint turns that fragmented process into a single issuance platform. With Injective Mint, users can issue equities, ETFs, bonds, commodities, FX and more. Choose the jurisdiction. Set supply and issuer details. Select a custodian such as Injective partners @FireblocksHQ or @BitGo. Then issue the asset onchain in minutes. Every asset can carry its own rules. Control who can hold and transfer it. Separate issuance from redemption. Freeze an address. Pause the asset. Assign each administrator a specific role. Injective enforces those rules natively at the blockchain level. Issuance is only the beginning. Assets created through Injective Mint can integrate with the broader Injective ecosystem, enabling secondary trading, collateralization, lending and perps while maintaining issuer-defined controls. Injective has filed to become a registered transfer agent with the SEC and published its MiCA whitepaper in Europe. Together, these establish regulated pathways for Injective to expand RWA offerings alongside $INJ across the U.S. and the European Union. Securities issued through Injective Mint could maintain their authoritative ownership record on the same network where they are issued and settled. Issuance, ownership and settlement could finally operate together onchain. Injective is building the infrastructure powering three pillars of the new internet economy. Perpetual markets. Agentic finance. Tokenization. Together, they enable users, institutions and AI agents to build, trade and move value entirely onchain. Institutional-grade tokenization no longer has to be a custom build. Injective Mint brings issuance, compliance, custody and capital markets together through a single platform. The next generation of internet capital markets will be built on Injective. @Injective
The feature that kept tugging at me was the uniBTC unstaking mechanism. Itâs marketed as a flexibility upgrade â a way for holders to reclaim control over their exit. And yes, on paper it works: you request, you wait, you claim.
But the mechanics tell a different story. Thereâs an 8âday processing window, a 0.5% exit fee, and rewards stop the instant you initiate unstake â not when tokens actually return to your wallet. That means eight days in limbo, queued and earning nothing.
I couldnât help but juxtapose this with the upcoming June 20 unlock â 40.63M BR flowing out of team and seed wallets. Their exits donât queue through a dApp; they follow a vesting schedule, clean and predictable. Regular uniBTC holders get a withdrawal mechanism. Early participants get a release schedule. Both are exits, but the friction is asymmetric.
Maybe the 8âday window is structural, a constraint inherited from Babylonâs lock dynamics that ripple upstream. Fair enough. Still, the question lingers: is this enhancement truly designed for the holderâs benefit, or is it another safeguard for the protocol itself?