March 17, 2026 - George Town, British Virgin Islands
Aster Chain has officially launched its mainnet, introducing a new paradigm in onchain trading privacy. The Layer 1 blockchain is designed to eliminate the risks of position hunting-where large trades are tracked and exploited-by making privacy the default.
Unlike other platforms that offer privacy as an add-on, Aster embeds ZK-verifiable encryption and stealth addresses directly into the execution layer. All orders are encrypted before reaching the chain, and user identities remain unlinkable to their activity.
Users can selectively disclose trades via a Viewer Pass, enabling controlled visibility while maintaining strategic secrecy. The network achieves over 100,000 TPS and 50ms block times-matching centralized exchange speed-without gas fees.
"Transparency between protocol and user is essential. Transparency between trader and competitor is a vulnerability," said Leonard, CEO of Aster. "Aster Chain neutralizes predatory behavior at the base layer."
The platform supports perpetual contracts across crypto, stocks, and commodities, plus spot trading, with native bridging to BNB Chain and proprietary oracles for accurate price feeds.
A staking program for early supporters begins within a week, and developers are invited to build vaults and DeFi tools via Aster Code.