.@OstiumLabs is not just making empty promises or creating hype right now. They are working on a path that combines "traditional assets (oil, metals, forex, indices, etc.) + perpetual contracts + on-chain wallets" — the goal is to allow ordinary people, whether crypto players or traditional market veterans, to directly access traditional asset markets on the blockchain.

They have recently secured a round of funding — totaling approximately $27.8M, including a $20 M Series A jointly led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto.

The platform uses two critical infrastructure components to support this ambition:

It is based on Chainlink Data Streams to provide low-latency, real-time, reliable market data feeds (such as oil prices, gold prices, etc.), ensuring that contract settlements, perpetual trading spreads, slippage, and liquidation logic closely mirror traditional market realities.

Essentially, it uses a combination of "synthetics + perpetual contracts + stablecoin settlement + proprietary wallet custody", which means you don’t actually need to buy metals/oil, nor do you need to hand your money over to centralized brokers — everything is on-chain, with stablecoins used for placing orders, settlement, and hedging.

This setup means two things:

Low entry barrier for regular users — with just an account, a wallet, and a few clicks, you can participate in things that were previously only accessible to commodity brokers or derivatives exchanges.

Transparent data/liquidity structure — every contract, every price spread, funding rate, and position direction is traceable on-chain, not the kind of "black box where the backend decides if you can close your position".

#Ostium is essentially building a blockchain-based hybrid of "CFD + perpetuals + self-custody wallet" — this could potentially fill the gap for people looking to hedge between traditional markets and on-chain finance in the future.
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