Astar

Astar is a multichain blockchain ecosystem whose native token, ASTR, serves as both a governance instrument and a staking asset within the network. It aims to bring everyday users and their financial activity onto blockchain infrastructure by coordinating products and contributors through a shared economic framework. The primary audience is developers and end-users who want access to decentralized applications across multiple chains, including Ethereum and Base, without being confined to a single network.

Astar Network is the anchor chain of the ecosystem and sits within the Polkadot ecosystem while also connecting to Ethereum-compatible environments, placing it simultaneously in Layer 1 and Layer 2 classifications. ASTR is used for staking through a mechanism called dApp Staking, where token holders stake to support applications on the network, and for participating in onchain governance. The data does not specify a consensus algorithm or block time for the network, so those mechanical details cannot be described here.

Over the trailing 30 days, the network collected 182.16 USD in total fees, of which the protocol retained 146.63 USD as revenue, implying a take rate of approximately 80.5% for that period. The supply-side — meaning the portion passed to infrastructure participants rather than kept by the protocol — received 35.53 USD over the same 30 days. Over the trailing 12 months, total fees reached 2,301.40 USD and protocol revenue reached 627.92 USD. Fee and revenue growth over the last 30 days were both sharply negative, at -72.18% and -71.04% respectively, indicating that recent fee activity is a small fraction of earlier levels.