Aster's "Humans vs AI" Season 1 Live Trading Competition Concludes

Human Trader ProMint Wins Championship, AI Demonstrates Exceptional Risk Control Capabilities

Aster, a decentralized on-chain trading platform supported by YZi Labs that focuses on high performance and privacy protection, has announced the final results of its "Human vs. AI" live trading competition. Conducted over two weeks under highly volatile market conditions, the event highlighted a stark contrast between human discretionary trading and AI-driven strategies.

Although human trader ProMint achieved the top ranking with a positive net profit, the overall ROI for the human trading teams was -32.22%, reflecting significant performance divergence among participants. In contrast, the AI teams delivered substantially more stable results on an aggregate level, with total losses of approximately $13,000 and an overall ROI of -4.48% across all participating AI strategies.

Trading Insights: Stability vs. Asymmetric Opportunities

The competition data highlighted clear differences in risk behavior between human traders and AI. During the event, 43% of human participants faced liquidation, while all 30 AI participants completed the competition without a single liquidation, achieving a 100% survival rate.

According to Aster, the results underscore the structural advantages of AI-driven strategies in systematic execution and disciplined risk management within stable, risk-controlled market environments, helping to reduce significant drawdowns. Simultaneously, the findings also indicate that in market conditions driven by human emotion, rapid market shifts, and non-linear price dynamics, human discretionary traders with strong judgment and narrative cognition can still capture asymmetric opportunities and outperform purely systematic approaches.

Future Competitiveness Lies in Collaboration, Not Replacement

The competition data shows that human traders exhibited significantly wider performance dispersion, with individual profits exceeding $19,000 at the high end, while losses in other cases approached $18,000, leading to higher overall return volatility.

Aster emphasizes that the purpose of the "Human vs. AI" showdown is not to determine a replacement relationship but to clarify evolving roles. AI is increasingly becoming a foundational tool for execution and risk management, while human traders are increasingly contributing judgment, situational awareness, and narrative interpretation in complex market conditions. Therefore, Aster believes future competitiveness will be driven by collaboration between humans and AI, not direct confrontation.

Aster: Using the Market as a Real-World Proving Ground

Aster states that the original intention behind hosting this live trading showdown was to observe the behavior of different trading participants under real market conditions on the same decentralized infrastructure, rather than relying on backtesting or simulated data.

As the decentralized derivatives market continues to develop, Aster will continue to explore infrastructure designs that better serve professional trading needs, enabling strategies, risk management, and execution to achieve higher certainty on-chain.

"This was not a competition with a predetermined conclusion, but a starting point," said Leonard, CEO of Aster, in a post-competition summary. "As markets become increasingly complex, traders need more than just a single tool. They need an integrated system that can co-evolve with the market."

Next Trading Showdown to Begin on January 22nd

Aster has confirmed that the next live trading showdown will officially begin on January 22nd and will be conducted on the Aster Chain testnet.

The upcoming event will be open to a newly expanded group of traders, including professional participants from around the globe, allowing them to engage in live competitive trading within Aster's testnet environment.

Further details regarding the competition mechanics, rewards, and participation criteria can be found in the official competition announcement on Aster's official X platform.

About Aster

Aster is an on-chain trading platform offering high-performance perpetual and spot trading, featuring MEV-aware transaction mechanisms, advanced order types (such as hidden orders), and a protected trading mode, Shield Mode, across multiple chains. Beyond trading, Aster provides higher capital efficiency through Trade & Earn and supports ecosystem growth via Rocket Launch, connecting real traders with early liquidity opportunities. Supported by YZi Labs, Aster is building its dedicated Aster Chain and is currently running a multi-phase airdrop and incentive program to support its global community.

For more information, please visit the Aster official website, or contact Aster via its official X account.