Aster Launches Perpetual Grid Trading 2.0 with Up to 140,000 $ASTER Liquidity Mining Campaign

What happened

Aster, a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, announced a four-week Liquidity Pool Mining campaign, which means a program that rewards users who add funds to trading pools, offering up to 140,000 $ASTER tokens from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC).

Confirmed

Global impact / market context

Incentives can pull traders and their cash into Aster's pools because rewards add to trading returns. More deposits can deepen available cash, tighten buying and selling costs, and lift activity in $ASTER, but the boost may fade once the campaign ends.

Analyst inference

Exchange reward campaigns are common ways to win users and deepen trading pools. This one ties payouts to $ASTER, a token linked to the platform, so demand for the token may rise with deposits and fall when rewards stop.

Analyst inference

What to watch

1. Track whether the campaign actually runs from September 28 to October 25, 2026, since the announcement lists that four-week window in UTC. Confirmed
2. Watch for future details on how the up to 140,000 $ASTER rewards are split, which pools qualify, and what lockups or conditions apply. Proposed
3. Compare Aster's pool deposits and $ASTER trading activity during the campaign with levels after it ends to judge whether users stay without rewards. Analyst inference

Affected assets

• ASTER — Aster

Evidence

• cryptopotato.com