Aster, a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, announced on September 28, 2026, the launch of its Liquidity Pool Mining campaign. The four-week program offers a total reward pool of up to 140,000 ASTER tokens and runs from September 28 to October 25, 2026, in UTC. It is available to all platform users operating Perpetual Grid strategies on designated eligible trading pairs.

Rewards are distributed on an hourly basis according to each eligible Grid’s proportion of trading volume. The base allocation stands at 10,000 ASTER per epoch, with the possibility of additional tokens depending on market conditions and overall platform activity. No registration is required, as participation occurs automatically for qualifying strategies.

Automated Trading Incentives

The campaign is designed to support Aster’s expanded Perpetual Grid infrastructure. Users can earn ASTER rewards through eligible automated Grid activity. Both maker and taker volume generated by these strategies qualify, while manual trades and any activity outside the Grid framework do not. An Estimated Bonus APY figure appears on the platform to illustrate potential annualized ASTER rewards drawn from recent campaign data. This figure adjusts with changes in volume, the number of active Grids, and other variables, and it does not represent a guarantee of future payouts.

Independent Grid Operation in Version 2.0

Perpetual Grid 2.0 allows automated strategies to function separately from a user’s standard perpetual positions. Each Grid operates through its own dedicated Grid Bot subaccount, isolating positions and margin from the main perpetual account. The system supports both cross and isolated margin modes. With isolated margin, a single account can maintain as many as 50 independent Grid strategies without any restriction on the number per trading pair. Users may therefore run automated Grids while continuing manual perpetual trading, including on the same pair.

Strategy Discovery via Grid Marketplace

Aster’s Grid Marketplace enables users to examine active strategies and review performance data such as profit and loss, return on investment, runtime, price range, leverage, and trading activity. Participants can adopt an existing strategy through a copy function or invert its direction with a reverse option, converting a long position into a short one or the reverse. Strategies created through either method remain fully independent of the original and do not synchronize with it.

Eligible Pairs and Reward Distribution

For the first week, the campaign covers OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1, and META/USD1. The overall reward pool is shared among these pairs. Individual allocations depend on each Grid’s eligible trading volume relative to the total eligible volume recorded in the corresponding hourly window. Additional pairs may be introduced in later weeks in response to shifting market interest.

Aster operates as a privacy-first onchain trading venue featuring tools such as Hidden Orders to shield user activity. The platform offers perpetual futures, spot markets, and earn products focused on real-world assets, meme tokens, and established cryptocurrencies. It runs on Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain developed to support decentralized finance applications.