Websea Contract Insurance completes major upgrade, providing comprehensive protection against trading risks

On January 27, 2026, the world’s leading digital asset trading platform Websea officially announced that its core innovative product, “Contract Insurance,” has completed the first phase of mechanism upgrades, with the second phase of structural innovation also set to commence soon. This iteration focuses on addressing product pain points and core user demands, systematically optimizing insurance logic, and striving to create a comprehensive risk control and protection system driven by trading that balances fairness, inclusivity, and high efficiency. It aims to inject sustainable development momentum into digital asset contract trading.

The first phase upgrade implemented on January 26 optimized aspects such as insurance node keep-alive logic, premium calculation methods, and reward node validity periods, further strengthening the fairness, airdrop efficiency, and sustainability of the contract insurance mechanism. This upgrade of Websea Contract Insurance is not merely a simple rule adjustment but a genuine system-level optimization from the user experience perspective, ensuring that “contract insurance provides protection for trades,” allowing all users to participate in contract trading with greater confidence.

Node Keep-Alive Rules Upgrade: Trading Ensures Protection

Before the upgrade, contract insurance, with its innovative risk protection mechanism, quickly attracted a large number of users in its early stages. However, as the ecosystem expanded in scale and user structure, the unified insurance node airdrop promotion model began to show structural mismatches—significant differences in node keep-alive costs among nodes of different sizes, which long-term amplified asymmetries in airdrop results and necessitated a systematic overhaul of the underlying logic.

Websea’s upgrade restructured the underlying logic of node operation, unifying the keep-alive and unfreezing of insurance nodes based on “cumulative new premiums,” with all premiums generated from contract trading (regardless of order profit or loss sources) being credited to the insurance pool.

In the new mechanism, Websea positions contract insurance as a mutual aid protection system involving traders’ participation, where contract trading feedbacks risk. Each trade’s premium continuously injects into the insurance pool, and when users incur losses, the insurance pool provides reverse risk airdrop support.

This is a value-sharing and risk mutual aid model based on contract trading behavior: trading contributes, losses can be recovered, and profits also feed back into the ecosystem. Through this positive cycle, contract insurance gradually forms a sustainable, self-reinforcing risk mutual aid network, making every participant a builder of the system’s stable operation.

Reward Node Mechanism Optimization: Releasing Airdrop Pressure

Before the upgrade, the increase in reward nodes intensified the pressure of airdrop releases, extending the contract insurance airdrop cycle. To address this, Websea optimized the reward node mechanism from the perspective of “activation efficiency” by introducing a 15-day validity period rule, encouraging reward nodes to quickly convert into effective support for insurance, thereby improving the circulation efficiency of the insurance fund.

The upgraded mechanism accelerates the circulation of reward nodes, alleviating pressure on the insurance fund’s airdrops, thus enhancing the efficient flow and sustainability of the contract insurance mechanism, and better safeguarding trading users through insurance airdrops.

Premium Calculation Rule Update: Continuous Injection of More Fees

In the previous mechanism, trading fees were included in the profit premiums and pending loss amounts, reducing the support of fees for the insurance pool and weakening the efficiency of the protection system.

This upgrade clearly separates fee calculations from insurance and the airdrop system, achieving a clear boundary of value. Going forward, insurance profit premiums and pending loss amounts will directly correspond to the actual profit and loss of user trading orders. Meanwhile, fees will be treated as an independent, stable, and predictable fund flow, injected into the insurance pool to provide strong financial support, solidifying the underlying capacity for airdrop release and risk control.

Returning Contract Insurance to Its Core Risk Protection Function

The core goal of this upgrade is to restore contract insurance to its fundamental purpose: providing protection for trades. The platform will revert the operation basis of contract insurance to premiums and fees generated by contract trading, so that its operation no longer relies on structural expansion but is built on the trading behaviors of each user. This allows participants of different scales to engage long-term within a fairer, more stable, and sustainable framework.

This phased upgrade is a key evolution in Websea’s listening to community voices and responding to genuine user needs. It is not only a mechanism optimization but also a strategic shift—returning contract insurance to its original intent of serving trading, hedging risks, and accompanying users through market cycles.

From innovative mechanisms to structural restructuring, Websea leverages contract insurance as a fulcrum to drive the upgrade and reconstruction of the entire digital asset trading protection ecosystem. In the future, Websea will continue to focus on user needs and industry pain points, using technological innovation and refined operations as engines to lead the digital asset trading protection field toward a fairer, more efficient, and more sustainable direction, building a safer and more valuable trading ecosystem for users worldwide.