Aster announces million-dollar trading competition, combined with Stage 4 airdrop and Rocket Launch incentives, multi-layered drivers for platform depth and liquidity growth

Multi-Track Incentives in Parallel: Airdrops, Competitions, and New Coin Campaigns Drive Growth

Aster, the decentralized exchange, is entering a phase of rapid expansion. Following strong performance in Stage 3, it has launched its Stage 4 (Harvest) airdrop program and will roll out the "$10 Million Double Harvest" trading competition on November 17. Simultaneously, Aster is expanding the activity matrix of its new product, Rocket Launch. With multiple incentive programs running in parallel, users can earn multiple rewards from every transaction, significantly boosting platform activity and trading depth.

The subsequent Stage 4 prize pool totals 1.5% of the ASTER supply (approximately 120 million tokens), evenly distributed across six weekly epochs, creating a cross-week incentive structure. Running concurrently, the Double Harvest trading competition further amplifies incentives: spanning from November 17 to December 21, the event consists of five independent cycles, each lasting seven days, with unlockable prize pools—up to $2,000,000 per cycle and a total of $10,000,000.

To enhance competitive depth, the competition ranks users based on their perpetual contract trading volume on Aster during each cycle, distributing prizes among the top 1,000 participants weekly. The single-week Top 1 can receive up to $300,000; if a user secures first place for all five weeks, cumulative rewards could reach $1,500,000. Distinct reward tiers ensure that high-frequency traders, moderately active users, and long-tail participants alike can benefit within their respective trading volume brackets.

The multi-track incentive system ensures every transaction yields multiple returns. Users can simultaneously accumulate Stage 4 airdrop points and contribute to competition rankings within a single perpetual trade, forming a dual-track earnings model that deepens liquidity while amplifying structured user incentives.

Rocket Launch Gains Momentum, Emerging as a New Growth Engine for Early-Stage Asset Ecosystem

Beyond airdrops and trading competitions, the new product Rocket Launch has demonstrated strong growth since launch. Within its first month, including other token listing events, it has hosted five new coin campaigns with total rewards exceeding $3 million, reflecting surging market demand for early-stage asset liquidity and launch mechanisms. Rocket Launch is rapidly becoming a key gateway for new projects to acquire initial users and liquidity, emerging as one of the core drivers of platform ecosystem expansion.

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

Alongside short-term incentives, Aster is advancing its infrastructure roadmap. In a recent official AMA, the team revealed development of a high-performance, privacy-selective Layer-1 blockchain featuring an on-chain order book. This chain will handle order placement, matching, and cancellation logic directly at the protocol layer, aiming to reconstruct the foundational layer of on-chain trading to deliver a near-centralized experience while preserving transparency and self-custody advantages. Internal testing and the first public testnet are expected by the end of 2025, with mainnet launch planned for Q1 2026.

On the product and ecosystem front, Aster will expand utility use cases for the $ASTER token over the next two quarters, including staking, governance, fee discounts, VIP tiers, airdrop eligibility, and yield-generating integrations with DeFi protocols. Additionally, the platform has already launched gold and index-based contracts, plans to add more commodities and stock-linked instruments, and will deepen integration with ecosystem partners such as Trust Wallet, Safepal, Math Wallet, and Lista DAO.

Accelerating Global Expansion, Expanding Industry Influence

Aster's global visibility is also rising. CEO Leonard was recently invited to speak about the platform’s infrastructure vision at Binance Campus APAC in Korea and will attend Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai this December, further strengthening its international footprint.

Through multi-track incentives, accelerated product iteration, and sustained infrastructure investment, Aster is shaping a steeper growth trajectory ahead of 2026, moving toward a hybrid model of "on-chain order book infrastructure + incentive-driven growth." The platform aims to capture greater market share in the competitive decentralized landscape and build next-generation decentralized trading infrastructure and a global ecosystem.