Aster Announces Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 With Up to 140,000 $ASTER Liquidity Mining Campaign

Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, has announced its Liquidity Pool Mining campaign—a four-week incentive program with a total reward pool of up to 140,000 $ASTER, running from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC). Timed to celebrate the launch of Perpetual Grid 2.0, the campaign is open to all Aster users running Perpetual Grid strategies on eligible trading pairs.

Rewards are distributed hourly based on each eligible Grid’s share of trading volume, with a base reward pool of 10,000 $ASTER per epoch and additional rewards available depending on market conditions and platform activity. Participation is automatic — no registration required.

“As Aster continues to bring more emerging assets and opportunities onchain, we’re also focused on building the tools traders need to navigate increasingly dynamic markets,” said Leonard, Aster’s CEO. “Perpetual Grid offers a flexible way to capture opportunities amid market volatility, and Grid 2.0 takes this experience further with greater flexibility and independence. This upgrade is another step toward our broader vision of building the frontier of onchain trading.”

Incentivizing Automated Perpetual Trading

The campaign builds on Aster’s expanded Perpetual Grid infrastructure, giving users a new way to participate in automated trading while earning additional $ASTER rewards from eligible Grid activity. Both Maker and Taker volume count toward the campaign, while manual trading and activity outside the Grid strategy are excluded.

An Estimated Bonus APY is also displayed, indicating potential annualized $ASTER rewards based on recent campaign activity. The estimate can shift as trading volume, participating Grids, and other conditions change, and does not guarantee future rewards or returns.

Grid 2.0 Separates Automated and Manual Strategies

The upgraded Perpetual Grid 2.0 lets Grid strategies run independently of users’ regular Perpetual trading. Each Grid operates through a dedicated Grid Bot subaccount, keeping its positions and margin separate from the main Perpetual account.

With support for both Cross and Isolated Margin, users can run automated Grid strategies while continuing to trade Perpetuals manually — even on the same trading pair. Isolated Margin supports up to 50 independent Grid strategies per account, with no per-pair limit.

Discover Strategies Through Grid Marketplace

Aster’s Grid Marketplace simplifies strategy discovery, letting users browse active Grid strategies and review metrics like PnL, ROI, runtime, price range, leverage, and trading activity.

Users can use an existing strategy as a starting point via Copy, or flip its direction with Reverse — turning a Long strategy into Short, or vice versa. Copied or reversed strategies remain fully independent from their source and don’t automatically sync with the original Grid.

Eligible Pairs and Rewards

The campaign runs on designated eligible trading pairs, with Week 1 covering OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1, and META/USD1. The reward pool is shared across participating pairs, and each Grid’s reward is determined by its eligible trading volume relative to the total eligible volume generated during each hourly period. We may add more eligible pairs in subsequent weeks to reflect the latest market trends.

For full details on the campaign, eligible pairs, and current parameters, visit the official campaign page.

About Aster

Aster is a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, with unique features like Hidden Orders to protect user trading activity. It pioneers the frontier of onchain trading through perpetual futures, spot, and earn products for top-trending assets — including RWAs, memes, and core crypto markets — powered by Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built for the future of decentralized finance.