George Town, British Virgin Islands — Aster announced the commencement of a four-week Liquidity Pool Mining campaign tied to the rollout of Perpetual Grid 2.0, offering up to 140,000 $ASTER in rewards over the program period from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC).
The campaign is designed to reward users running Perpetual Grid strategies on eligible pairs. Rewards will be distributed on an hourly basis according to the share of eligible trading volume generated by each participating Grid. The program’s baseline allocation is 10,000 $ASTER per epoch, with the possibility of additional incentives that may be deployed depending on market conditions and platform activity. Aster has said that users who meet the eligibility criteria are included automatically without requiring any separate registration.
How rewards are calculated
Under the campaign’s mechanics, both Maker and Taker volume from eligible Grid activity count toward the reward calculation. Activity that is conducted manually or outside of a configured Grid strategy is explicitly excluded from the program’s reward pool. Aster also publishes an Estimated Bonus APY metric to give users a snapshot of potential annualized $ASTER rewards based on recent campaign activity; the company notes that this figure can change as volume, the number of participating Grids and other campaign conditions evolve, and it does not constitute a guarantee of future returns.
Perpetual Grid 2.0 - operational separation and margin options
Perpetual Grid 2.0 introduces structural changes that keep automated Grid strategies separate from a user’s main Perpetual trading activities. Each Grid runs through a dedicated Grid Bot subaccount, meaning its positions and margin are segregated from the primary Perpetual account. Users can choose to run Grid strategies in either Cross or Isolated Margin mode.
Isolated Margin under Grid 2.0 permits up to 50 independent Grid strategies per account, and Aster specifies that there is no per-pair cap on the number of Grids one may run. The architecture allows traders to run automated Grids while continuing to place manual Perpetual trades, even on the same trading pair, without commingling positions and margin between automated and manual allocations.
Grid Marketplace for strategy discovery and reuse
Aster’s Grid Marketplace is positioned as a tool for strategy discovery. The marketplace exposes active Grid strategies and their performance metrics, including realized profit and loss (PnL), return on investment (ROI), runtime, configured price range, leverage and trading activity. Market participants can copy an existing strategy to use as a starting point or reverse an existing Grid’s direction - turning a Long into a Short strategy or vice versa. Copied or reversed strategies remain independent from the source strategy and do not automatically follow or synchronize with the original Grid.
Eligible pairs and campaign scope
The Liquidity Pool Mining campaign applies only to designated eligible trading pairs. For Week 1, Aster listed OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1 and META/USD1 as eligible pairs. The overall reward pool will be shared across participating pairs and individual Grid rewards will be allocated according to each Grid’s eligible trading volume relative to the total eligible volume recorded during the relevant hourly period. Aster indicated that additional eligible trading pairs may be added in future weeks to reflect market trends.
Product positioning and platform details
Aster describes itself as a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs. The platform includes features such as Hidden Orders to limit visibility into user trading activity, and it supports a suite of products including perpetual futures, spot trading and earn products across a range of trending asset types identified by the firm, such as real-world assets, memes and core crypto markets. The underlying infrastructure is Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain intended to serve as the transactional backbone for the platform’s decentralized finance features.
Company comments and campaign administration
Aster’s chief executive, Leonard, framed the upgrade and campaign as components of the platform’s ongoing roadmap to expand onchain trading tools and list emerging assets. The firm set out clear operational rules for the campaign, including automatic participation for qualifying Grids and the hourly, volume-weighted reward distribution. For full details about current campaign parameters, eligibility and any updates to the list of supported trading pairs, Aster directs users to the official campaign page.
Contact
Marketing Manager
Lola Chen
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