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what's ostium labs?

Ostium Labs is a decentralized perpetuals exchange focused on enabling on-chain trading of real-world assets (RWAs) such as gold, oil, the S&P 500, and commodities like copper and silver. It operates on Ethereum Layer 2 for settlement, providing users with leveraged trading up to 100x, full self-custody, instant deposits and withdrawals, and no account restrictions typical of traditional finance platforms. The platform integrates prediction markets, allowing conditional trades based on market swings, and features a points program where users earn points through trading and liquidity provision for potential future rewards. Ostium emphasizes accessibility, starting trades with as little as $10, and supports extended trading hours for various assets.

Snapshot

Ostium Labs reached 20k+ users, offering 150x gold, 50x silver/copper perpetuals on Arbitrum.

5H ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 20,000+ users trading on the platform.

1D ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Offers trading with up to 150x leverage on gold perpetuals, 50x leverage on silver perpetuals, and 50x leverage on copper perpetuals on Arbitrum.

1W ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Ended Season 1 points farming and commenced Season 2 points farming, introducing Boost Windows as a new feature.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Plans to list a new asset during the week of January 6-12, 2026 related to Venezuela-driven market volatility.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in a comparative analysis of perpetual DEX points programs alongside Paradex, extendedapp, Variational, and StandX, positioned as specializing in FX, commodities, and real-world asset (RWA) trading for macro traders.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Publishing a market outlook report focused on metals trading scheduled for January 5, 2026.

2W ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Included in a curated educational list of DeFi perpetuals protocols recommended for beginners learning DeFi primitives.

3W ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $47 million in open interest on TSLA perpetuals on December 18, 2025.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Lists one new stock for trading daily from December 18, 2025 through December 24, 2025, starting with PLTR (Palantir) available with up to 50x leverage.

1M ago

Ostium Labs runs a joint campaign with Bantr_fun platform.

Vooi.io announces retroactive points drop for traders who have used Ostium and other DEXs, requiring $1M in volume before July 20th.

Listed among projects planning a Token Generation Event (TGE) in 2026, characterized as one of many "huge TGEs" expected that year.

Appears as new entrant on DefiLlama's top-100 revenue dashboard, ranking #60 with $183,236 in 7-day revenue.

Listed as a trending project over the last 7 days based on KaitoAI smart following data, appearing in a compilation of 14 trending crypto projects.

gTrade whitelists traders for 75% fee discounts and includes them in a trading competition with over $300k in prizes, alongside traders from Avantis and GMX.

Completes $24M funding round at $250M valuation and reports $25B in total trading volume with 95% from RWA perpetuals.

Withdrawal functionality experiences technical problems with user funds stuck for more than 12 hours.

Launches "Break Up With Your Broker" campaign targeting traditional CFD traders with 2x points boost for first 30 days of platform usage.

DACM announces participation in the Series A funding round, joining previously announced investors General Catalyst, Jump Crypto, Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Crucible Capital.

Partners with Privy for platform security and protection infrastructure.

The Collateralization Ratio drops below 100%, with OLP now acting as direct counterparty to user trades and experiencing ongoing losses over recent weeks.

The Series A funding round values the company at $250 million, with total capital raised reaching $23.5 million.

Announces $24 million funding round with $20M Series A co-led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, joined by Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Crucible Capital. Launches ostiscan(.)xyz dashboard for tracking hedging positions and plans protocol evolution to competitive quoting environment with native staking mechanism and slashing system.

The $20 million funding comes from Harvard endowment as the investor.

The platform secures $20 million funding round, with founders being Harvard graduates, according to Fortune.

Ostium is listed among projects expected to have their Token Generation Event in 2026.

Thirty-fifth week distribution finalized with participation from approximately 1320 traders and 3430 liquidity providers receiving 500,000 points total.

500,000 Ostium Points are available for distribution this week through a rewards campaign.

Coinbase Ventures lists the platform among teams they're most excited about heading into 2026, highlighting its work on RWA perpetuals for exotic markets like private companies, economic data, and macro exposure including oil, credit spreads, and volatility.

A trader closed a GOOG long position for $625k profit on the platform related to the Meta-Google TPU news.

The project is positioned as tokenizing natural resources on Arbitrum in a list featuring major RWA tokenization initiatives including BlackRock, Robinhood, and WisdomTree.

Analyst identifies platform as a derivative DEX expected to perform well in the U.S. equity perpetuals category alongside Hyperliquid and Vest Exchange.

Platform reports $10m open interest available for trading with minimal slippage.

Platform distributed 500,000 points in Week 34 to approximately 1730 traders and 3500 liquidity providers, with Week 35 now active.

Platform runs an "InfoFi" campaign reaching out to traders and influencers for participation, mentioned alongside competitors EdgeX, Paradex, and Pacifica running similar initiatives.

Unit's QQQ contract volume nearly eclipses Ostium's platform-wide volume.

Platform integrated into VOOI perp dex aggregator that launches via ICO with 18x oversubscription and YZI backing.

Platform demonstrates competitive advantages over Trade.xyz including lower fees, tighter tradfi spreads, better funding rates, and broader tradfi market coverage across Forex, commodities, and indexes.

Platform reaches $40m in 24H NVDA volume and 84% of total volume in tradfi assets (48% stocks/indices, 22% FX, 14% commodities), with over 95% of open interest in tradfi.

Trading competition with @Damicale_s is currently live on the platform.

Platform offers 3x Ostium Points multiplier on NVDA positions for earnings day only, an increase from the previously announced 1.5x weekly multiplier.

Platform offers 1.5x points multiplier on NVDA positions this week, coinciding with Nvidia earnings.

Platform distributes 500,000 points in Week 33 to approximately 1680 traders and 3600 liquidity providers, marking the thirty-third week of its ongoing rewards program.

VOOI platform integrates Ostium's liquidity alongside Hyperliquid and Orderly for cross-chain, gas-free swaps.

2M ago

Platform's RWA Open Interest and trading volumes exceed those of competitor Lighter, which raised at $1.5B valuation from Robinhood, Founders Fund, and Ribbit Capital.

Platform powers hedgefieth, a copy trading platform offering access to Stocks, Forex, Commodities, and Global Indices.

Leaderboard feature launches on Bantr_fun platform, tracking trades and conversations for user rankings.

Platform launches three new crypto assets: BNB, HYPE, and XRP. HYPE offers trading with up to 75x leverage.

Week 32 points distribution completes with 500,000 points allocated to ~1930 traders and ~3770 liquidity providers, with Week 33 now active.

Platform achieves $25B+ trading volume milestone.

Platform integrates with Vooi.io in Q1 2025, launching AI copilot feature for user navigation and trading assistance.

Total Open Interest exceeds $200M, with Real World Assets (Commodities, Stocks, Indices, and Forex) comprising 98.25% of volume while crypto represents only 1.75%.

Users earn Points while trading which will turn into a future airdrop.

Open Interest reaches All-Time High on the platform.

The OLP vault is currently undercollateralized and will gap down at the next epoch, raising concerns about the advertised 0% APR rate.

Platform adds MSTR, BMNR, and SBET as new tradable Digital Asset Tokens (DATs).

Over 15,000 people have now traded global assets on the platform, marking a new user adoption milestone.

Commodities now comprise almost 50% of total Open Interest, up from approximately 45% on October 30th when commodities represented $138M of $307M total OI.

Platform distributes 500,000 points in Week 31 to approximately 1930 traders and 3780 liquidity providers, with Week 32 points accumulation period now active.

Platform reaches new all-time high Open Interest of $307M, up from ~$200M reported on October 29th, with breakdown showing Commodities $138M, Indices $75M, and Stocks $64M.

In a 24-hour period, platform experiences $7M+ new USD inflows, $60M Open Interest addition (31% increase), and 123 net new users following promotional thread about farming opportunities.

Ostium listed among perpetual DEX projects expected to complete Token Generation Event between now and end of year 2025, earlier than the previously mentioned 2026 airdrop timeline. Tweet raises broader market concerns about capital availability to support the large number of projects planning TGEs in this timeframe.

Platform ships major improvement to trade execution speed, with ultra-fast low latency trading now live to address user complaints.

Platform achieves ~$200M Open Interest and ~$1B weekly trading volume, with October generating approximately $2M in fees ($22M annualized).

Platform adds crypto stocks CRCL, COIN, GLXY, and HOOD to its trading offerings.

Platform plans token airdrop on Arbitrum in 2026, allocating tokens to liquidity providers through Provider Points system.

Architecture described as broker model (like Robinhood) with on-chain quotes based on tradfi market liquidity, claiming better current prices for gold and Tesla versus Hyperliquid. Reputation damage escalates with community assessment that platform credibility is irreparably harmed.

Team including CEO and CTO allegedly spends Sunday FUDing competitor Hyperliquid's Unit after their equity index perpetual launch.

Controversy emerges around founder's tweet with community division and political overtones, while platform faces criticism as a GMX fork iteration. (IDs: 1982629639442067771)

Week 30 points distribution allocates 500,000 points across approximately 2,080 traders and 3,750 liquidity providers.

Platform records $15M in Open Interest while competitor Hyperliquid/unit reaches $39M OI.

Equity perps liquidity depth claimed to be vastly superior to Hyperliquid, with the platform gaining recognition in Hyperliquid circles.

Market share faces existential threat from Hyperliquid competitor, with poor user adoption and weak distribution/community cited as fundamental vulnerabilities.

User publicly expresses frustration about excessive shilling (promotional activity) of the project alongside Ventuals and Vest tokens.

Minimum trade size reduced to $5, lowering barriers to entry for traders on the platform.

Ostium technology now powers trading of Stocks, Forex, Commodities, and Indices in the Liquid Trading app.

60% of last 24 hours volume comes from metals trading, with $83M in gold and $22M in silver. USD/CHF trading pair sees volume for the first time on the platform.

Listed as a top-tier pre-TGE (pre-Token Generation Event) perpetual DEX in the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Week 29 points distribution completes with 500,000 points allocated to approximately 1,830 traders and 3,750 liquidity providers.

Cumulative trading volume surpasses $22B.

The platform reaches $568M in daily trading volume ATH, one year after mainnet launch.

Open Interest for gold trading on Arbitrum raises to $120M and opening fees reduce by more than 50% to 3 basis points.

Ostium Labs powers the launch of Liquid Trading platform.

The project actively hires for a support engineering role focused on onchain debugging and user support. The head of growth previously served as VP of institutional sales at Galaxy. (IDs: 1978490781670281546, 1978489589493878888)

A single trader generates $53M+ in trading volume over 48 hours and currently holds a $14.4M long position on gold.

3M ago

HIP-3 launches and the platform achieves a new all-time high in 24-hour trading volume on the same day.

The platform records $387M in 24-hour trading volume, with $135M attributed to metals trading alone.

The platform is listed as one of the featured DeFi projects in Arbitrum's S2 Create-to-Earn campaign, where 700K $ARB rewards content creators focusing on Arbitrum ecosystem narratives through December 31, 2025.

Recent market volatility caused PAXG perps to wick 24% down to nearly $3k with widespread liquidations, while the platform states its gold traders were protected by pricing based on real gold markets rather than crypto derivatives, directly criticizing CLOB perps on RWAs as fundamentally flawed.

Commodities now represent 62.5-65% of daily trading volume, with copper experiencing a record trading day ($4M taker volume, 10x average) and silver hitting 3.5x average daily volume. Total open interest reaches $214M with 53% concentrated in metals, including over $100M in gold alone.

The platform is distributing 500,000 Ostium Points this week as part of an ongoing rewards program.

The platform integrates prediction market data with conditional order execution, allowing users to automatically trigger leveraged trades when prediction market probabilities reach preset thresholds.

Platform reports $210M total open interest across four asset classes: Gold ($118M), FX ($65M+), Crypto ($16M+), and Equities ($10M+).

The project is featured on a high-profile Token2049 conference panel with major DeFi projects including Jito, Pendle and Drift.

The platform claims capability to handle single-shot $25m S&P positions with zero price impact and execution 2-3 orders of magnitude better than competing onchain RWA orderbooks.

The platform is listed among projects planning a Token Generation Event (TGE) in Q4, indicating an upcoming token launch within the next few months.

Week 26 points distribution completes with 500,000 points distributed to approximately 1,340 traders and 3,750 liquidity providers, showing growth in trader participation since week 24.

The platform now exceeds major exchanges Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid in gold open interest with $130m compared to their $98m, $18m, and $32m respectively.

The platform is recognized as one of the two main perpetuals exchanges focusing specifically on RWA (Real World Assets) perpetuals trading according to a major industry report.

Platform categorized as mid-tier farming opportunity with currently low competition levels, where modest volume can secure high user rankings for potential future rewards.