Aster announced on the X platform that it has completed the 100% destruction of tokens from the fourth and fifth buyback phases as of February 5 at 21:00 (UTC+8). According to PANews, a total of 98,400,345.46 ASTER tokens were permanently destroyed, with 53,920,060.26 tokens from the fourth phase and 44,480,285.20 tokens from the fifth phase. The burn transactions have been verified and published on BscScan. The announcement also mentioned that the sixth phase of the buyback plan is ongoing, and users can track the buyback progress through the provided on-chain address.