Aster launches the Hidden Orders feature: Orders are invisible, and the advantages are revealed
Aster, a next-generation decentralized perpetual contract exchange exclusively invested by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), today officially announced the launch of an important upgrade to its professional trading platform, Aster Pro: Hidden Orders.
This feature allows users to submit pending orders in an invisible way throughout the process when trading perpetual contracts, avoiding exposing any trading intentions. With this, Aster has become a perpetual contract DEX that natively supports hidden orders, and is once again at the forefront of the industry in the field of DeFi innovation.
In Aster Pro, users who choose to hide their orders will not have any price, quantity, or pending order information displayed on the public order book, but will go directly to the main matching engine, which will only be displayed after the order is filled.
"In high-speed, high-confrontation contract trading, being seen is often a disadvantage." Leonard, CEO of Aster, said, "Hidden orders allow traders to operate with true anonymity while maintaining privacy, fairness, and liquidity. ”
Why do decentralized perpetual exchanges need hidden orders?
In cryptocurrency trading, the ability to complete large transactions without alarming the market often determines whether a trader is a novice or a professional. Institutional and advanced traders generally rely on advanced execution strategies such as Dark Pool and Hidden Orders to hide intent and reduce slippage.
Recent discussions among industry leaders have also focused on a core paradox in DEX infrastructure: transparency, while building trust, also exposes large traders to various "hunting" tactics on a real-time visible order book. This also highlights the growing need for a decentralized perpetual market to find a solution that balances privacy and market integrity to prevent front-running and transaction exploitation without undermining market fairness.
In fact, in centralized exchanges, high-frequency or large-scale traders have long relied on dark pools or iceberg orders to hide their intentions, but both have their own flaws:
- Dark Pool: Completely invisible, it does not affect the main market, but due to the use of a separate order book, it will lead to fragmentation of liquidity, and usually has a low turnover rate.
- Iceberg Orders: Anonymous on the surface and can use the liquidity of the main market, but still exposes part of the number of orders each time, and the trading intention is easy to be snooped on.
And hidden orders are a unified solution born to solve this series of problems:
- 🔒 Complete privacy: Pending orders remain completely invisible until they are filled, without revealing key prices or intentions
- 🕶 Covert Execution: Reduce slippage and prevent front-running in highly volatile markets
- 🔄 Integrate liquidity: Directly integrate with the main matching engine to maintain tight spreads without dispersing liquidity
- ⚡ High-speed execution: Faster execution than iceberg pending orders, and there is no trace of "afterimage".
Built for privacy, built for advantage
The hidden order feature launched by Aster Pro is natively supported on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform. This is not only a product upgrade, but also a statement of attitude: Aster leads the market with product innovation and shapes industry standards with hard work.
By hiding orders, traders can:
- Defend key prices undetected
- Quietly open or close large positions to avoid front-running and hedging
- Execute trades completely anonymously while enjoying Aster's highly aggregated order book liquidity
In a market environment where "whoever is exposed first, loses first", Aster helps traders take control of their own pace and destiny.
Reinventing the new standard for on-chain perpetual transactions
This launch reinforces Aster's position as an industry-leading perp DEX: not only by trading volume but also by continuous innovation in product experience, execution quality, and user-oriented design.
From the launch of the convenient registration experience of email login, to the launch of the privacy-preserving ZK Layer1 - Aster Chain Beta, to the current hidden orders, Aster continues to focus on users and continue to raise the ceiling of DeFi.
While other platforms are busy mimicking centralized tools, Aster is more concerned with how to build real protections for users:
- Privacy: Deep privacy protection with zero-knowledge proof (ZK) technology
- Fairness: Ensure a fair trading environment through an anti-MEV structure
- Take control: Take control with professional tools such as hidden orders and native order books
We're not just building products, we're reinventing what's possible with on-chain transactions – fast, fair, private, and powerful.
About Aster:
Aster is a next-generation decentralized perpetual contract exchange for all users. Users can use one-click, MEV-free trading with up to 1001x leverage (BNB Chain and Arbitrum) in Simple mode, as well as professional trading tools including hidden orders (BNB Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum) in Pro mode. Aster Chain is a high-performance blockchain designed for order book trading, supporting a private, custodial-free on-chain matching mechanism. Strategically supported by YZi Labs, Aster is committed to building the core infrastructure of the future of DeFi: fast, flexible, and community-first.