Aster announces a $10 million trading competition, combined with Stage 4 airdrop and Rocket Launch incentives, driving multi-layered growth in platform depth and liquidity.

 

Multi-Track Incentives in Parallel: Airdrops, Competitions, and New Token Events Fully Drive Growth

The decentralized trading platform Aster is entering a phase of rapid expansion. After a strong performance in Stage 3, it immediately launched the Stage 4 (Harvest) airdrop plan, and will launch the “Double Harvest” trading competition with a total reward of $10,000,000 on November 17. At the same time, it continues to expand the activity matrix for its new product, Rocket Launch. Multiple incentive programs run in parallel, allowing users to receive multiple rewards for each transaction, significantly increasing platform activity and trading depth.

The upcoming Stage 4 prize pool totals 1.5% of ASTER’s total issuance (about 120 million tokens), distributed evenly across six weekly Epochs, forming a cross-week incentive structure. Simultaneously, the Double Harvest trading competition further amplifies the incentives: from November 17 to December 21, the event is divided into five independent periods, each lasting 7 days, with an unlockable prize pool mechanism. Each period can reach up to $2,000,000, with a total of $10,000,000.

To enhance the depth of competition, the contest will rank users based on their perpetual contract trading volume on Aster during each period, with the top 1,000 users sharing the prize pool for that period. The top 1 user in a single week can receive up to $300,000; if a user ranks first for five consecutive weeks, the maximum cumulative reward can reach $1,500,000. Different ranking intervals have independent reward allocations, allowing high-frequency traders, moderately active users, and long-tail participants to earn rewards within their respective trading volume ranges.

With multi-track incentives running in parallel, every user transaction brings multiple returns. Users can simultaneously accumulate Stage 4 airdrop points and trading competition ranking contributions in the same perpetual trade, forming a dual-track income structure that not only deepens liquidity but also further amplifies structured incentives for users.

Rocket Launch Grows Rapidly, Becoming a New Growth Engine for Early-Stage Asset Ecosystems

In addition to airdrops and trading competitions, the new product Rocket Launch has shown strong growth since its launch. In its first month, including other token listing events, five new token activities have been launched, with cumulative rewards exceeding $3,000,000, reflecting the market’s rapidly growing demand for early asset liquidity and ignition mechanisms. Rocket Launch is quickly becoming an important entry point for new projects to acquire early users and liquidity, and is becoming one of the core drivers of the platform’s ecosystem expansion.

Building On-Chain Order Book Infrastructure, Advancing the Long-Term Roadmap

While offering short-term incentives, Aster is also advancing its infrastructure roadmap. In a recent official AMA, the team revealed that it is building a high-performance, optionally private on-chain order book Layer-1 public chain, which will directly handle order placement, matching, and cancellation logic at the protocol level. The goal is to reconstruct an on-chain trading infrastructure that approaches the experience of centralized exchanges, while retaining transparency and self-custody advantages. Internal testing and the first public beta are expected to be released by the end of 2025, with the mainnet planned for launch in the first quarter of 2026.

On the product and ecosystem level, Aster will strengthen the use cases for $ASTER tokens over the next two quarters, including staking, governance, fee discounts, VIP mechanisms, airdrop qualifications, and yield-generating features in cooperation with DeFi protocols. Meanwhile, the platform has launched gold and index contracts, and plans to expand to more commodities and stock assets, as well as deepen integration with ecosystem partners such as Trust Wallet, Safepal, Math Wallet, and Lista DAO.

Accelerating International Market Expansion, Continuing to Expand Industry Influence

Aster’s global visibility is also rising. CEO Leonard was recently invited to share the platform’s infrastructure plans at Binance Campus APAC in South Korea, and will attend Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai this December, further expanding its influence in the international market.

Through multi-track incentives, accelerated product iteration strategies, and continuous investment in infrastructure construction, Aster is forming a steeper growth curve before 2026, moving towards a hybrid model of “on-chain order book infrastructure + incentive-driven growth,” striving to capture a larger market share in the fiercely competitive decentralized sector and build the next generation of decentralized trading infrastructure and a global ecosystem map.