Executive Summary

Aster is a hybrid perpetuals DEX purpose-built for institutional trading. Operating across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BSC, it combines onchain settlement with the performance characteristics that high-volume trading firms require, including spot and perp markets with a treasury model that enables efficient deposits and withdrawals across chains. Aster's 1001x Simple mode, available on BSC and Arbitrum, delivers fully on-chain execution, making it one of the few perp venues where institutional compliance and auditability requirements can be met at the trading layer.

A new class of participant is moving into onchain markets. Traditional finance firms, market makers, asset managers, and prop trading desks are bringing the operational sophistication to trade at scale alongside the compliance requirements to match. As these firms move capital onto onchain venues like Aster, the security coverage they rely on needs to move with them.

With this release, Blockaid adds native chain support for Aster across transaction scanning, address screening, and risk exposure, giving trading firms and platforms operating onchain the security coverage they need to transact with confidence.

What's New: Blockaid Adds Chain Support for Aster

As Aster grows and attracts a broader range of institutional participants, teams operating on it need security coverage that matches how they actually trade. This release delivers native support for Aster across the full transaction lifecycle.

• Transaction Scanning: Blockaid now natively scans Aster transactions across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain. Coverage includes ERC-20 approvals, collateral deposits and withdrawals, yield-bearing token mints and redemptions, and an advisory surface for high-leverage positions opens above 50x. Teams get real-time intelligence on Aster activity before a transaction is signed, with the same depth of decode applied to Aster that Blockaid brings to every supported chain.
• Address Scanning: Blockaid analyzes onchain and offchain data, cross-chain activity, and behavioral heuristics for every Aster address, evaluating transaction history, risk associations, and links to malicious infrastructure, to return a clear verdict on any counterparty before a transfer is made. For trading firms operating at scale, that means every deposit destination, withdrawal address, and counterparty wallet on Aster can be screened against Blockaid's threat intelligence before capital moves.
• Token Scanning: All known Aster tokens are covered, with scanning that applies static and dynamic heuristics alongside machine learning to detect honeypots, impersonation tokens, and rugpulls in real time. For trading firms and platforms routing volume through Aster, that means every token interaction can be vetted before it reaches a user or hits a trading desk, keeping manipulated assets and malicious listings out of the execution flow.
• Risk Exposure: Blockaid's Risk Exposure is now available for Aster addresses, giving trading firms and asset managers a real-time compliance screening layer for every counterparty they interact with on the chain. Each address scan returns a clear compliance verdict, benign, warning, or malicious, along with a detailed breakdown of USD exposure across risk categories including sanctioned entities, mixers, stolen funds, fraud operations, and darknet markets. Verdicts are returned at sub-600ms latency, designed for live transaction decisioning rather than retrospective investigation.

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Why Chain Coverage Matters for Institutional Trading

Institutional capital is moving onchain, and it is concentrating at a handful of high-performance venues. Hyperliquid now runs 24/7 onchain markets for oil, silver, gold, and the S&P 500 alongside crypto perpetuals, processing over $2.9 trillion in cumulative trading volume. Polymarket has become the leading onchain prediction market, attracting institutional participants looking for exposure to real-world event outcomes without intermediaries. Alongside them, a growing number of venues like Aster and Lighter are expanding the onchain trading landscape, each bringing new instruments, new chains, and new pools of institutional liquidity. The scale and pace of this shift is unlike anything the crypto market has seen before.

The firms showing up at these venues are not crypto natives. Traditional finance firms, market makers, prop trading desks, and asset managers that have spent decades operating across regulated markets are now deploying capital across these venues simultaneously. The opportunity is real, but so is the exposure. Trading onchain means interacting with smart contracts, counterparties, and assets that carry risks with no equivalent in traditional markets, malicious approvals, toxic counterparties, sanctioned addresses, and exploitable contracts. The compliance and risk management frameworks these firms rely on do not automatically follow them onchain.

As institutional demand for onchain trading grows, Blockaid is expanding coverage across the venues where that capital is moving. With support for Hyperliquid's HyperCore and HyperEVM, Polymarket, and a growing set of venues including Aster, teams get a single security platform that keeps pace with where they actually deploy capital.

Read more: Blockaid Expands Onchain Monitoring Support for Hyperliquid's HyperCore →

Looking Ahead: Onchain Security and Compliance for the Institutional Trading Era

As TradFi institutions continue to move capital into onchain markets, the security layer underneath needs to evolve with them. These firms don't just need scanning. They need pre-transaction enforcement, counterparty screening, and the ability to respond to incidents at the speed they trade. That requires security infrastructure built specifically for how these venues work, not generic tooling adapted after the fact.

Blockaid will continue expanding coverage across the trading venues where institutional participants are deploying capital. As more firms scale their onchain presence, the security infrastructure underneath will scale with them.

The firms making this shift are already working with Blockaid. FalconX, one of the leading institutional crypto trading platforms, integrated Blockaid's Cosigner directly into their MPC signing flow to eliminate blind signing at high trading velocity. Every transaction is simulated, validated, and policy-enforced in under 300 milliseconds, without slowing down operations. For institutional desks where governance and speed are both non-negotiable, that is what security infrastructure built for onchain trading actually looks like.

Read more: How FalconX Prevents Blind Signing for Institutional Trades with Blockaid →

About Blockaid

Blockaid is the onchain security platform trusted by the largest companies operating in Web3. Built by veterans of elite intelligence and cybersecurity units, Blockaid provides end-to-end protection for financial institutions, protocols, and end users, combining direct wallet and dApp integrations with real-time monitoring, detection, and response across smart contracts, infrastructure, and externally owned accounts. Since 2025, Blockaid scanned over 6.3 billion transactions and blocked 585 million attacks. Blockaid is the security infrastructure behind Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Safe, and dozens of the most widely used platforms in the industry.

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