Aster, a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, has launched Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 alongside a four-week liquidity pool mining campaign with up to 140,000 $ASTER in rewards.
The campaign runs from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC). Rewards are distributed hourly based on each eligible Grid bot's share of trading volume. The base reward pool is 10,000 $ASTER per epoch, with additional rewards possible depending on market conditions and platform activity. Participation is automatic, and both maker and taker volume count, while manual trading is excluded.
With Perpetual Grid 2.0, automated Grid strategies operate separately from users' regular perpetual accounts through dedicated Grid Bot subaccounts. Users can choose Cross or Isolated Margin, and isolated margin supports up to 50 independent Grid strategies per account. The Grid Marketplace allows traders to explore active strategies by PnL, ROI, runtime, price range, leverage and activity, and to copy or reverse strategies.
Week 1 eligible trading pairs are OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1, and META/USD1. Additional pairs may be added later. CEO Leonard said the upgrade is part of Aster's broader vision of building the frontier of onchain trading.
The platform offers perpetual futures, spot and earn products for RWAs, memes and core crypto markets, and is powered by Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain.
