Aster announces a multi-million dollar trading competition: incorporating Stage 4 airdrops and Rocket Launch incentives to drive platform depth and liquidity growth.

Aster, a decentralized trading platform, has launched a multi-million dollar trading competition and new incentives to boost platform activity and liquidity.

Multi-Track Incentives: The "Double Harvest" trading competition runs from November 17 to December 21 with a $10 million total prize pool. Users are ranked by trading volume, with top performers eligible for significant rewards. This runs alongside the ongoing Stage 4 airdrop program, allowing users to earn multiple rewards from a single trade.
Rocket Launch Growth: The new coin launchpad, Rocket Launch, has gained rapid traction, hosting five events in its first month with over $3 million in rewards, establishing itself as a key growth engine for early-stage assets.
Infrastructure Development: Aster is building a high-performance, on-chain order book Layer-1 blockchain, with a mainnet planned for Q1 2026. This aims to provide a near-centralized trading experience while maintaining decentralization benefits.
Token & Ecosystem Expansion: The platform is enhancing the utility of its $ASTER token through staking, governance, and fee discounts. It is also expanding its product offerings to include gold and index contracts and strengthening partnerships with major wallets and DeFi protocols.
Global Expansion: Aster is increasing its international presence through events like Binance Campus APAC and the upcoming Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai.

Multi-track incentives in parallel: airdrops, competitions, and new coin events drive growth across the board.

Decentralized trading platform Aster is entering a phase of rapid expansion. Following its strong performance with Stage 3, it launched the Stage 4 (Harvest) airdrop program and will unveil the " Double Harvest " trading competition on November 17th, offering a total reward of $10 million . Simultaneously, it continues to expand the activity matrix of its new product, Rocket Launch . These multiple incentive programs running concurrently allow users to earn multiple rewards with each trade, significantly improving platform activity and trading depth.

The following Stage 4 prize pool comprises 1.5% of the total ASTER supply (approximately 120 million tokens), evenly distributed across six weekly epochs to create a cross-weekly incentive structure. Simultaneously, the Double Harvest trading competition further amplifies the incentives: the event runs from November 17th to December 21st, divided into five independent periods, each lasting seven days, and employs an unlockable prize pool mechanism, with a maximum of $2,000,000 per period, totaling $10,000,000.

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

The multi-track incentive system ensures that each user transaction brings multiple rewards. In the same perpetual transaction, users can simultaneously accumulate Stage 4 airdrop points and trading competition ranking contributions, forming a dual-track parallel reward structure that deepens the incentives for users while further amplifying their structured rewards .

Rocket Launch is growing rapidly, becoming a new growth engine for the early-stage asset ecosystem.

In addition to airdrops and trading competitions, the new product Rocket Launch has experienced strong growth since its launch. Within its first month, including other listing events, it launched five new coin events, with a total reward scale exceeding $3 million , reflecting the market's rapidly growing demand for early-stage asset liquidity and ignition mechanisms. Rocket Launch is rapidly becoming a crucial entry point for new projects to acquire early users and liquidity, and is also becoming one of the core driving forces for the platform's ecosystem expansion.

Building on-chain order book infrastructure and advancing the long-term roadmap

While offering short-term incentives, Aster is simultaneously advancing its infrastructure roadmap. In a recent official AMA, the team disclosed that they are building a high-performance, privacy-optional on-chain order book Layer-1 public chain. This chain will directly handle order placement, matching, and cancellation logic at the protocol layer, aiming to reconstruct an on-chain transaction foundation layer with a near-centralized experience while retaining transparency and self-custody advantages. Internal testing and the first public beta are expected to launch by the end of 2025, with the mainnet planned for launch in the first quarter of 2026.

At the product and ecosystem level, Aster will enhance the use cases for the $ASTER token in the next two quarters, including staking, governance, fee discounts, VIP mechanisms, airdrop eligibility, and yield-generating features in partnership with DeFi protocols. Simultaneously, the platform has launched gold and index contracts and plans to expand to more commodities and stocks, while strengthening integration with ecosystem partners such as Trust Wallet, Safepal, Math Wallet, and Lista DAO.

Accelerated international market expansion and continued growth in industry influence

Aster's global visibility has also increased accordingly. CEO Leonard was recently invited to share the platform's infrastructure planning 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, and continuous investment in infrastructure construction, Aster is forming a steeper growth curve by 2026, moving towards a hybrid model of "on-chain order book infrastructure + incentive-driven growth," striving to capture a larger market share in the highly competitive decentralized market and build the next generation of decentralized trading infrastructure and a global ecosystem.