Aster has rolled out its Stage 4 “Harvest” airdrop and plans to begin the $10 million “Double Harvest” trading competition on November 17. The two incentive programs will run at the same time, letting users earn airdrop allocations and competition rewards from the same trading activity as the platform pushes for higher engagement and deeper liquidity.
Stage 4 rewards spread across six weekly epochs
The Stage 4 pool accounts for 1.5% of the total $ASTER supply, or about 120 million $ASTER, and will be distributed evenly over six weekly epochs. Running alongside it, the “Double Harvest” competition includes five separate weekly leaderboards, creating a structure where identical trading behavior can qualify for more than one reward stream.
Aster said the new rollout follows strong performance in Stage 3. At the same time, the company is scaling Rocket Launch, its early-asset product, with a broader pipeline of new token campaigns.
Rocket Launch posts $3 million-plus in first month rewards
According to the announcement, Rocket Launch is built to help early-stage projects by driving liquidity and trading activity. In its first month, the product hosted five new token campaigns with a combined reward pool of more than $3 million. Aster described that traction as evidence of demand for early-stage liquidity and launch mechanisms, while positioning Rocket Launch as an entry point for projects seeking initial users and liquidity.
Order-book Layer-1 moves toward testing
During a recent official AMA, the team said it is actively developing a high-performance on-chain order-book Layer-1 with optional privacy features. The design is intended to process order placement, matching, and cancellation directly at the protocol layer, with the stated goal of bringing a CEX-like trading experience on-chain while keeping transparency, self-custody, and privacy intact.
Aster said internal testing and an initial public testnet are planned for late 2025, while the mainnet is targeted for Q1 2026.
$ASTER utility expansion includes staking and fee discounts
On the product roadmap, Aster said it will extend $ASTER utility over the next two quarters to include staking, governance, fee discounts, VIP tier benefits, airdrop eligibility, and yield-enhanced integrations with DeFi protocols. The platform has already added gold and index perpetuals and said it plans to expand into more commodity and equity-linked instruments.
Aster also pointed to deeper integrations with Trust Wallet, Safepal, Math Wallet, and Lista DAO. Its public profile is growing as well: CEO Leonard recently presented Aster’s infrastructure plans at Binance Campus APAC in Korea, and the company is scheduled to attend Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai this December.
Aster describes itself as a next-generation decentralized exchange for perpetual and spot trading across BNB Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum. The platform also says users can post liquid-staking tokens such as asBNB or yield-bearing stablecoins such as USDF as collateral, and notes backing from YZi Labs.