Hello Astar community and council
We are writing this update to formally request reconsideration of Aradia’s participation in the second round of the UCG initiative, and to share the real progress we have made since our first round wrapped up.
What we have built so far
Since our last report, the Aradia team has not stopped building. We have been doing the hard, unglamorous work of constructing real infrastructure for the Astar ecosystem.
We have successfully indexed over 4,600 NFT collections on Astar, applying active metadata filtering to ensure quality and relevance. We are currently crawling and indexing additional NFTs and transactions in real time. Our numbers stand at over 1.5 million transactions and nearly 1.3 million NFTs indexed and those figures grow every single day.
You can verify this live at aradia.app the platform is live, and constantly evolving.
UCG support would directly allow us to cover these ongoing infrastructure costs in a sustainable way, instead of the team personally carrying a financial burden that grows as the platform scales.
UCG funding would allow us to inject the necessary liquidity into the Refuel vaults, finally activating one of the most practical and user-facing tools we have built. This directly benefits every new user entering the Astar ecosystem who needs ASTR to pay for gas a friction point that currently pushes people away before they even get started.
Why Aradia deserves a second round
Aradia was never meant to be just an NFT marketplace. Our vision is to become the most complete utility hub for Astar and Soneium users a single place where people can manage their assets, access liquidity, discover collections, and participate in the ecosystem without friction.
Here is what continued UCG support would allow us to do:
- Cover infrastructure costs that the team has been personally subsidizing, making the project financially sustainable ATM
- Activate the Refuel vaults with real liquidity, solving one of the most concrete onboarding pain points in the ecosystem
- Expand our indexing infrastructure to cover every collection and transaction, giving the community the most complete on-chain explorer on Astar
Improve the user experience for daily on-chain activity. We are adding features that real users need every day better portfolio visualization, easier collection discovery, cleaner transaction history, and smoother wallet interactions. The goal is for Aradia to be the first tab you open when you start your day in the Astar ecosystem, not just a marketplace you visit once.
Our commitment
We understand that trust is earned through consistency. In our first round, we delivered monthly reports and hit our milestones. We are not asking for blind faith we are asking for the opportunity to keep proving ourselves. The indexing numbers, the live platform, and the roadmap we have laid out are evidence that this team executes
Supporting Aradia in Round 2 is a direct investment in native, sustainable utility for the ASTR token. We are ready to keep building.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
The Aradia Team 
aradia.app