The Good Tech Companies - Aster Chain Launch: Defining a New Era For Onchain Privacy and Transparency

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/aster-chain-launch-dening-a-new-era-for-onchain-privacy-and-transparency. It offers institutional-grade privacy and CEX-level performance to professional and retail traders worldwide. The mainnet launch marks the start of a phased exp Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #aster, #blockmanwire, #press-release, #aster-announcement, #crypto-exchange, #blockchain-development, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @blockman. Learn more about this writer by checking @blockman's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Aster Chain is designed to dismantle the "transparency trap" of modern DeFi. It offers institutional-grade privacy and CEX-level performance to professional and retail traders worldwide. The mainnet launch marks the start of a phased expansion.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Astor chain launch defining a new era for on-chain privacy and transparency. By Blockman PR and Marketing, Georgetown, BVI, March 18, 2026 Astor, a privacy-focused trading ecosystem backed by YZI Labs, today announced the official launch of Aster Chain Mainet. This purpose-built layer one blockchain is designed to dismantle the transparency trap of modern defy, offering institutional grade privacy and CX level performance to professional and retail traders worldwide. Ending the era of on-chain position hunting. Transparency is one of Defy's defining strengths, public ledgers, verifiable transactions, open protocols. But transparency between a

protocol and its user-sys different from transparency between a trader and their competitors. When every order, position size, and liquidation level is visible to the market, that information can and does get used against you. Position hunting, where traders identify a large position, see its liquidation price, and coordinate to trigger a forced liquidation, has cost traders millions of dollars on fully transparent platforms. Infamously, in March 2025, a trader opened a $375 million BTC40X short on a fully transparent platform. Traders quickly began openly coordinating on Twitter to pool funds and hunt the position. Aster's default privacy removes that attack surface entirely.

A the Astor thesis, privacy is a fundamental right. Unlike existing solutions that treat privacy as an opt-in feature or a third-party wrapper, Astor chain embeds encryption directly into the execution layer. On Aster, privacy is the default, not a privilege. The Aster privacy stack utilizes a ZK-verifiable encrypted architecture, ZK-verifiable encryption plus stealth address mechanism. Every order is ZK-Virifficion. verifiable encrypted before it reaches the chain. With account privacy enabled, orders are routed

through unique stealth addresses, ensuring no link between users' wallets and their trading activity, and preventing any third party from tracing, correlating, or reconstructing trades. Selective disclosure, while acid transfers remain traceable for compliance, the execution layer shields strategic intent. Users who want their activity visible can choose to make it public. With account privacy enabled, users can generate a viewer pass to share with selected parties, allowing only those with access to the pass to view their private orders. Zero performance trade-off. Astor chain achieves peak throughput of 100,000 plus TP sand, a median block time of 50 milliseconds, all without gas, performance that matches the speed traders expect from a centralized exchange. Transparency

between a protocol and its users is a fundamental feature, but transparency between a trader and their competitors as a critical vulnerability, said Leonard, CEO at Astor. Astor chain is the only architecture that treats privacy as a fundamental requirement for a fair market, neutralizing predatory attacks at the base layer. CECX speed meets Dex principles Astor chain delivers the sub-second finality and high leverage experience of ACEX while upholding the core tenets of decentralization, self-custody, verifiability, and permissionless access. Trading privacy removes the last reason to stay on a centralized exchange, the network is supported by a native bridge to BNB chain and proprietary oracles to ensure high fidelity price data. Fueling the next

wave of innovation the main at launch marks the start of a phased expansion. Beyond the flagship Aster trading UI, the ecosystem is inviting builders to create specialized vaults and collaborative defy products through Aster code. To coincide with the launch, Aster will initiate a staking program within a weakdo reward early supporters and liquidity providers. About Aster Aster as a privacy-first on-chain trading platform backed by YZI Labs, with unique features like hidden orders to protect user trading activity. It offers perpetual contracts across crypto, stocks and commodities, as well as CryptoSpot Trading, and is powered by Aster Chain, a layer one blockchain built to power the future of

decentralized finance. Learn more about Aster on the official website or follow Aster on X Media Contact Lola Chen PR and Content Manager Lola. Chen at Astrodex. Com this story was published as a press release by Blockmanwire under Hackernoon Business Blogging Program disclaimer. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are speculative, complex, and involve high risks. This can mean high prices, volatility and potential loss of your initial investment.

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