On January 27, 2026, Websea, a leading global digital asset trading platform, officially announced the completion of the first phase mechanism upgrade for its core innovative product, "Contract Insurance." The second phase architectural innovation will also be launched shortly. This iteration is designed to address key product challenges and user demands, systematically optimizing the insurance logic. It aims to build a comprehensive risk control and protection system driven by trading activities, balancing fairness, accessibility, and operational efficiency, thus injecting sustainable development momentum into digital asset contract trading.

The first phase of the upgrade implemented on January 26 has been successfully completed.Insurance Node Keep-Alive Logic、Premium calculation methods, reward node validity periods, etc.Optimize aspects and further strengthen the contract insurance mechanism.Fairness, Airdrop Efficiency, and Sustainability.This upgrade to the Websea contract insurance is not merely a rule adjustment, but a system-level optimization genuinely driven by user experience. It ensures that contract insurance truly "protects transactions," allowing all users to participate in contract trading with greater peace of mind.

NodeKeep-alive rule upgrade: Transactions ensure protection.

Before the upgrade, contract insurance, with its innovative risk protection mechanism, quickly attracted a large number of users in its early stage. However, as the ecosystem scale and user structure continued to expand, the unified insurance node airdrop model began to show structural mismatches. Specifically, different node sizes led to significant variations in the cost of maintaining active nodes for users, which, in the long run, amplified the asymmetry in airdrop outcomes. This has also prompted the platform to systematically reconstruct its underlying logic.

Websea's recent upgrade has restructured the underlying logic of node operations. The calculation for insuring node liveness and unfreezing is now uniformly based on "cumulative new premiums." All premiums generated by contract transactions (regardless of whether the order is profitable or loss-making) are counted toward the insurance pool.

In the new mechanism design, Websea positions contract insurance as a mutual protection system in which traders collectively participate and share risks through contract trading. Every transaction generates a premium that continuously contributes to the insurance pool. When users suffer losses, the insurance pool, in turn, provides risk-mitigation support through targeted allocations.

This is a value-sharing and risk-mitigation approach based on contract-based trading behavior:Trading is contribution; losses can be recovered, and profits also nourish the ecosystem.Through this positive cycle, contract insurance gradually forms a sustainable and self-reinforcing risk-sharing network, enabling every participant to become a contributor to the system's stable operation.

Optimize the reward node mechanism: Alleviate airdrop rate pressure

Before the upgrade, the increase in reward nodes intensified the pressure on airdrop releases, prolonging the insurance airdrop cycle of the contract. To address this issue, Websea optimized the reward node mechanism by focusing on "activation efficiency." By introducing a 15-day validity rule, it encourages reward nodes to quickly convert into effective support for insurance, thereby improving the circulation efficiency of the insurance fund pool.

The upgraded mechanism accelerates the circulation of reward nodes, alleviating the pressure on the insurance fund airdrop, thereby enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of the contract insurance mechanism, and enabling the insurance airdrop to better protect transacting users.

Premium calculation rule update: More handling fees continuously injected

In the previous mechanism, transaction fees were included in the calculation of profitable premiums and loss reserves, which reduced the fees' support for the insurance pool and weakened the efficiency of the protection system.

This upgrade clearly separates the calculation of trading fees in relation to insurance and the airdrop system, achieving a clear demarcation of value boundaries. Going forward, insurance profits and the amounts of losses to be covered will directly correspond to users' actual gains and losses from their trading orders. At the same time, trading fees will serve as an independent, stable, and predictable source of funding, injected into the insurance pool, providing strong financial support and strengthening the foundational capabilities of airdrop distribution and risk control.

Bring contract insurance back to the essence of risk protection.

The core objective of this upgrade is to return contract insurance to its fundamental role as a product that provides protection for trading activities. The platform will base the operation of contract insurance on the premiums and trading fees generated by contract trading itself. This means the insurance will no longer rely on structural expansion, but instead will be built upon the trading behaviors of every individual user. As a result, participants of all sizes will be able to engage in a more fair, stable, and sustainable framework for the long term.

This phased upgrade marks Websea's key evolution in listening to community feedback and responding to real user needs. It is not merely a mechanism optimization, but also a directional shift—returning contract insurance to its original purpose of serving transactions, hedging risks, and accompanying users through market cycles.

From mechanism innovation to architectural transformation, Websea is leveraging contract insurance as a fulcrum to drive the upgrading and restructuring of the entire digital asset trading protection ecosystem. In the future, Websea will continue to deeply explore user needs and industry challenges, using technological innovation and refined operations as its engine to lead the digital asset trading protection field toward a more fair, efficient, and sustainable direction, building a safer and more valuable trading environment for global users.