PANews reported on May 19th that Aster has announced the launch of the Listing Vote mechanism, allowing eligible validators to initiate on-chain listing proposals. The official statement indicates that any Aster Chain validator who has staked 20 million ASTER tokens can submit proposals for new trading pairs to be listed, with the final result determined by on-chain ASTER staking weight voting. The first batch of proposals is a BTC/U and ETH/U perpetual contract submitted by UTech, and voting will close at 14:00 Beijing time on May 22nd.